Wayfarer Support
Help with steps, Stats, artwork, weather, and your local Wayfarer data.
Steps are missing
Open Wayfarer while your iPhone is unlocked, then pull down on Today to refresh. In the Health app, open your profile, choose Apps, then Wayfarer, and confirm Step Count is turned on; Walking + Running Distance and Flights Climbed add distance and stairs. Wayfarer reads these types but does not write to Apple Health. Apple protects Health data while the phone is locked, so Wayfarer refreshes whenever you open it.
Looking back at a day or a month
In Stats, choose Steps, Distance or Stairs from the heading, then Week, Month or Year. Use ‹ and › to move back and forward in time. Tap a bar or a day to read it, then Open to see that day’s steps, distance, stairs and the hours you walked.
Weather is unavailable
Local weather is optional and provided through Apple Weather using WeatherKit. Check that Wayfarer has When In Use location permission and that the device is online, then try again from Today. Weather conditions around you help select the painting shown on Today. Wayfarer does not display air quality or provide a walking recommendation. If weather cannot update, your steps, artwork, and saved walking history remain available.
Moving around
Wayfarer has three spaces on one painting. Swipe right for Stats and left for Walks; swipe up and down on Today for the other places on today’s walk. The dots at the bottom do the same by tap, and the button at the bottom right opens Settings. Settings → Swipe guide shows the swipes again.
Choosing a walk
Today shows one place a day from five famous walks: the Kumano Kodo, the Camino de Santiago, the West Highland Way, the Appalachian Trail, and the Milford Track. Swipe left for Walks to keep every walk or choose one. Places start as sketches and come into colour on a day you reach your usual steps while that place is showing. Reopening Wayfarer always returns to today’s place. Tap the place name under the painting to read about the walk on Wikipedia.
Moving paintings
Every painting moves gently with the weather: plants in the wind, rain and ripples, water, birds, fireflies, and window light. Only the painting you are looking at moves, and it settles to a still painting after about a minute. Turn on Reduce Motion or Low Power Mode to keep every painting still.
Artwork sources
The paintings and their source information are included with Wayfarer, so they need no content download or developer server. Open Settings, choose Artwork, then Sources & attributions to view the source links. An internet connection is needed only if you choose to open one of those websites.
Wayfarer has no account, developer analytics, advertising, or tracking.
Units
Wayfarer shows distance in kilometres and temperature in Celsius.
Resetting local data
Deleting Wayfarer removes its locally stored preferences and cached history. It does not remove your source data from Apple Health.
Contact
Email jhow@outlook.com for Wayfarer support.