Apple Unveils iPhone’s New Apple Fitness+ Lineup With More Strength, Yoga And Pickleball

Apple has just revealed the new content coming to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV for 2025. There are new episodes of the popular Time to Walk app on the Watch, a workshop-style yoga program and a surprise collaboration with Strava.

Apple Fitness+ is a subscription service that started just over four years ago. From the beginning, it has had an “Everybody welcome” attitude to encourage people of all levels of confidence to take up exercise. The video sessions are exceptionally high-quality, produced from Apple’s multi-million dollar Apple Fitness Studios in California. You can watch on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV and your heart rate, gathered from your Apple Watch, shows up on screen.

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In addition to the existing exercise types, which range from HIIT to dance, meditation to yoga, this year sees the introduction of a progressive strength training program to help users to build and maintain strength with a new three-week course that targets every major muscle group in a series of half-hour workshops.

And now there’s pickleball, or at least something called a Strength, Endurance and Agility for Pickleball program, guided by Catherine Parenteau, who has been ranked number 1 in the world in both singles and doubles, Apple says. The exercises are inspired by Parenteau’s own training.

There’s also something I really can’t wait for: Yoga Peak Poses. Apple makes every session accessible—if you can’t keep up with the main trainer, there’s always someone doing gentler, simpler exercises so nobody’s excluded.

But if you’ve ever yearned for something a bit more challenging in a particular discipline, this kind of new element could be ideal. New sessions will focus on just one pose, such as Dancer, Twisted Hand to Big Toe and Crow, to help build confidence. If you’ve ever seen me do Crow (and you haven’t because in yoga you’re just focused on yourself, right?) you’ll know I need all the help I can get.

There’s a new section to introduce Breath Meditation, with five 10-minute meditations to choose from, such as ocean breathing. Artist Spotlights continue, where workouts have playlists from just one artist. Upcoming are workouts with music from Janet Jackson, Coldplay and Bruno Mars.

Time to Walk is a special Apple watch-only strand, an intimate listen where one person tells a little of their life, and chooses three tracks meaningful to them. Over the years these have ranged from Dolly Parton to Prince William. New episodes begin on Jan. 13 and include actor Adam Scott, Tiffany Haddish and Rita Ora.

There’s also a collaboration with Strava, improving the integration between Strava and Fitness+ so that if you share a Fitness+ workout to Strava, it shows more detail, such as episode number and image, trainer name and metrics.

And a new Apple Watch limited-edition award: close all three Activity Rings for seven consecutive days to achieve this.

Apple Fitness+ is a spectacular fitness service and Apple is ensuring it continues to be cutting-edge, with something for absolutely everyone. The new content begins to land on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.

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