What you might want to know
- Strava Messaging is a brand-new function coming to v335 for each Android and iOS.
- The Messaging icon seems subsequent to the Notifications bell.
- By default, you’ll be able to solely message Followers, and you may prohibit who can message you personally.
- No Strava Premium is required, however there shall be “premium messaging choices” sooner or later.Â
Strava is about to turn out to be extra social. The favored health app will add Strava Messaging, permitting you to both Direct Message or Group Message your fellow athletes. It will likely be out there with v335 of the app, which ought to seem in early December.
This function will most profit Strava customers in Golf equipment, because it’ll allow you to coordinate with fellow members and share the Route you will be taking for a future working membership occasion or race. Group messages can embody as much as 25 members without delay.
The difficult half shall be getting permission to message that many individuals. Strava’s privateness settings let anybody see your profile by default, however Strava Messaging solely enables you to message your followers, which means they’re going to both must method you first or be a mutual pal who follows you again earlier than you’ll be able to ship them a DM.
Plus, you’ll be able to change your Strava Messaging settings in order that solely your Mutuals can message you, or make it so “No One” can message you — though you will nonetheless have the choice to message different folks in the event that they maintain their DMs open.Â
For individuals who simply use Strava as a log for exercises, you’ll be able to shortly be certain that nobody can hassle you. However for individuals who use it to remain linked with athletes, it may very well be a useful technique to keep in contact, reward others for his or her accomplishments, and evaluate notes.Â
I examined Strava Messaging out with a colleague. It is pretty restricted in comparison with the finest messaging apps, however has the fundamentals. You’ll be able to share hyperlinks, reply to particular messages, add response emojis, mark messages as unread, or flag an inappropriate message.Â
You too can change the title of a Group Message to one thing thematically applicable.
In the meanwhile, you’ll be able to’t share images, although Strava intends so as to add that possibility in “early 2024.” You are additionally supposed to have the ability to share GIFs now, however we could not get them to work.
In case you click on on an exercise out of your profile, you’ll be able to faucet the Share icon and see the choice to “Ship to” a particular DM or group chat. You too can share saved routes, however these are solely out there to Premium subscribers. Strava additionally instructed us that its paid members “can count on to see premium messaging choices sooner or later.”
In early 2024, Strava will develop your share choices to incorporate “golf equipment, posts, and occasions.” For Strava Membership members, you will additionally be capable to message inside that membership on “particular matters.”
General, regardless of its present limitations, Strava Messaging appears to be a useful gizmo for energetic customers to attach straight throughout the app as a substitute of counting on another choice, like Fb. We’ll have to attend and see whether or not it catches on!