The latest Zwift update is now available on all platforms: Mac, PC, Android, iOS, and AppleTV.
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This update includes more flexible Training Plans, new frames and wheels, homescreen UI updates, and of course a pile of bug fixes. Here are the details…
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Flexible Training Plans – Now More Flexible!
Zwifters have long asked for more flexibility in Zwift’s “flexible” training plans, and this update offers the first real flexibility upgrades since Training Plans were first released. Here’s what has changed in today’s release:
- Once unlocked, workouts will remain unlocked in a training plan. Previously, once a new week began, the previous week’s workouts were no longer available.
- Workouts will continue to become available on a weekly basis. So you can’t work ahead more than whatever workouts are scheduled for the current week.
- 2 additional weeks to complete the training plan. This gives you an additional 2 weeks to complete the plan, so if you get sick, go on vacation, etc in the middle of your plan you can still get it all done.
- Removal of the 8-hour rest period after completing a workout. We would say if you’re able to do two workouts within 8 hours you may need to update your FTP, but regardless… this makes Training Plans for flexible.
- Added the ramp test and zone benchmarking workouts as pre-plan workouts. Training Plans still begin on the Monday after you sign up, so until Monday rolls around, it may be best to update your FTP by taking a ramp test and validating it with the zone benchmarking workout. Zwift says, “The ramp test should be done first to establish an FTP estimate, then validated by the zone benchmarking workout. If you are confident with your FTP, or have tested within the last 21 days, feel free to skip the ramp test and just do the zone benchmarking for fine tuning.”
- Flexible Training Plan progress is now based on the number of workouts completed in the plan.
- Improvements have been made to the Flexible Training Plan enrollment UI flow.
See the Zwift forum topic for details and discussion >
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Workout Mode Updates
Zwift has made three changes/improvements to workout mode:
- Receive full-star credit for recovery intervals. As long as you’re pedaling, regardless of your power being too high or low, you’ll get full credit. It’s important to note that you’ll always get your star for recovering intervals, but you still need to hit the power targets if you want the full XP for these intervals. See “How Zwift Calculates XP For Cycling Workouts” for details.
- Fixing arches to ensure they match the color of the next interval.
- Fixing arch positioning near intersections. Sometimes arches would appear on the wrong road when you’re nearing an intersection, then swap to the correct road. This bug should fix that.
New Frames and Wheels
Three new bike frames have been added to the Drop Shop:
- Specialized Diverge (gravel, Level 12+, 532,500 Drops): 2 stars for aero, 2 for weight
- Mosaic RT-1d (Level 15+, 852,000): 2 stars for aero, 2 for weight
- BMC TeamMachine (Level 26+, 832,900): slider 3 stars for aero, 3 for weight
Two new gravel wheelsets have been added as well:
- Reserve 25 GR (no level requirement, 11,400 Drops): 3 stars for aero, 1 for weight
- CADEX AR 35 (no level requirement, 21,300 Drops): 3 stars for aero, 1 for weight
We’re running tests on all five Drop Shop additions to determine their performance in game.
New Home Screen UI Update, Rollout Notes
This release includes updates to Zwift’s new home screen UI which has been slowly rolling out to PC users since January. Today’s update includes a new Settings menu option to change your home screen scaling:
The new home screen will be rolling out to many more Windows users in the coming days, with rollouts to macOS users beginning this week. Zwift has not yet announced an ETA for iOS, Apple TV, and Android rollouts.
See Zwift forum topic for details and discussion >
New Workouts of the Week
Workouts have been added to the on-demand list for March and April. You can also see the current week’s workout, which you can do on your own or in a Wednesday Group Workout.
- March 7-13: A Gentle Reminder with Kristin Armstrong: Tempus Fugit
- March 14-20: Touch of Egypt with Dani Rowe: Watopia Flat Route
- March 21-27: Climbing Power with Ella Harris: Watopia Beach Island Loop
- March 28-April 3: A Road Race with Anna Van Der Breggen: Makuri Islands Sprinter’s Playground
- April 4-10: Expand
- April 11-17: Mat Hayman – Paris-Roubaix
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Coming Up
Between today’s various forum posts, Zwift has indicated they are working on a few features to be released in the not-too-distant future:
- Extending Workout Block Duration: Zwift says, “We’re enabling Zwifters to extend the duration of their workout blocks. This allows you to add more time to warm-ups and cool downs, or increase recovery time between hard intervals. For Type 2 fun, you can extend the duration of your hard efforts as well.”
- New Homescreen UI Route Selection for Workouts: Zwift says “we have taken your feedback into account and are currently working on the next iteration of workout route selection. This will provide flexibility to select any route, and show route badge completion status and distance/elevation data. Currently scheduled for the 1.24 release in April.”
Additionally, we’ve received word just today from Australia-based JetBlack that their steering unit is now supported in Zwift as of this update. The unit isn’t shipping quite yet, but should be soon, and we’ve got a review unit in the mail as well. Watch this space!
Bug Fixes and Misc Improvements
Here’s Zwift’s list of fixes and improvements included in this update, with notes in italic from us:
- Device and Internet connectivity alerts can now be dismissed. A clickable X now appears to the right of these alerts, so you can get them off your screen quickly if desired.
- Added an event filter for Tour of Watopia 2022 events on the new Home Screen.
- Made improvements to the prioritization of sounds based on proximity of the Zwifter.
- Made improvements in the pedal-assist Zwifters receive when joining other Zwifters, events in progress, or a Pace Partner.
- Time-based events leaderboards and on-road positioning is now calculated from the starting line for all participants (regardless of when they cross the starting line.) This opens up the possibility of time-based events in the future, since rider times will be accurately based on crossing the same start line. Time for a Zwift Hour Record competition?
- Fixed an issue causing some event filters to appear incorrectly in the new Home Screen.
- Fixed an issue where XP would be awarded when a workout block was completed outside of the target power.
- Fixed an issue with the Gravel Grinder workout where cadence suggestions did not appear in the warm-up.
- Fixed an issue causing the critical power curve graph to ignore some data from subsequent rides within the same session.
- Fixed an issue where lap progress would show an extra lap after finishing an event.
- Fixed an issue where Challenges text did not display when the German language was selected.
- Fixed an issue causing login text to be difficult to read on iOS when using dark mode.
- Fixed an issue where users who answered onboarding questions on the web would be asked those same questions again in-game.
- Fixed an issue causing black boxes to appear in Innsbruck on MacOS.
- Fixed an issue causing some rocks on the Mega Pretzel route to be lighter than air.
- Fixed an issue causing trees to grow inside of the mountain on the Ocean Blvd route.
- Support for Intel HD Graphics 3000/2000 has been discontinued. See this post for details.
- Minimum MacOS requirement is 10.12 Sierra or later. See this post for details.
See Wes Salmon’s notes on this update release in the Zwift forum >
Questions or Comments?
If you spotted any other changes or bugs in the update, please comment below!
Zwift is great and deserves to b praise for the good it does
what about the Orbea Orca
Any update for the SL7?
“We would say if you’re able to do two workouts within 8 hours you may need to update your FTP”.
Yes, it IS a rather broad statement. 🙂 That’s why I said you may …
Your points are all good ones, of course. As usual! Thanks Chad.
Sorry but in Gran Fondo Training Plan there are several 50 minute recovery rides and also 3h15m hard workouts. If I can manage 3h+ on Zwift, then 2 50min workouts in a row would not kill me. Not at all related to my http://FTP... anyway, FTP became less important after 25% plusminus adjustment became possible (THANKS ZWIFT !!!!).
Great, another steering device that I can’t use. When is Zwift going to add support for the Tacx Neo Bike? I’m sick and tired of waiting. We’ve had steering for the Wahoo Kickr and Wattbike Atom for AGES now. I want to steer too, and the Tacx Smart Bike is one of the last smart bikes to need it, and definitely the biggest one. I can’t use the Elite Steerzo for obvious reasons, so I want steering for my Tacx Neo Bike.
And don’t forget the StagesBike. As far as I know Stages itself was ready for it about a year ago.
You’re not missing much. I have a Sterzo and never use it, because – apart from Repack Ridge – all it really allows you to do cut corners in a few races which allow steering.
Wahoo Kickr is using bluetooth only, so those of us on Ant+ (like me) still don’t have access to it. At least that’s something I guess, but Zwift’s support of the available devices we all use for it’s platform is very slow. Saying that I did manage to try it out a couple of times and it’s a bit of a novelty I wasn’t too bothered about.
What happens to training plans currently in progress in terms of flexibility improvements?
I am currently doing BMU and missed a workout last week – now it is available again so it suggests changes are also made retrospectively.
Great question! I’m in a training plan now and completed a workout the following week by selecting it from “workouts”, but the training plan doesn’t acknowledge I did it. I don’t want to mark it as an outdoor ride. Any way to manually match it would be great. 👍
I don’t see much point in developing gravel stuff until they create an environment where it’s advantageous to ride a gravel bike. They really dropped the ball on the concept.
there may be things being already tested in development, and are preparing for later… who knows.
The jungle and several routes in makuri are faster on gravel bike. Yes that’s right, there is new gravel equipment that makes gravel bike faster than mtb in the jungle.
Flexible training plans, finally. The most important update for me. I often travel and have never managed to finish a plan in the past.
Will Zwift or not put in an edit button in our garage where we can delete any items in our inventory that we won’t be using anymore and also manage in priority our bike frames for a faster exchange on a coarse. I’ve suggested this for the past 2 years and I’m sure other riders will agree with this addition. Thank you
I think a ‘sell’ button would be quite good to earn back a few drops. Obviously at a reduced rate so you still have to keep earning drops, but I agree that cleaning out the garage would be good once you build up a collection, especially older bikes when superseded and you never use them anymore.
Agree,or (and?) just shortcuts for some frame-wheelset combo’s you like to be using
Completely agree – it’s not practical for me to add anything to my garage as it already is too cluttered to find anything quickly. Just a delete button, or archive or similar. Or favourites that then get shown at the top of the list. Scrolling is extremely difficult on my MacBook pro for some reason.
Totally agree
Agreed!
Agree. I just need three bikes set up and ready to go. Maybe they get stored in the pits out of the garage, equipped with the wheels you want on and ready to ride. I find it a pain in the rear end any time I want to change bikes as I have too many
agree. wasted my drops on so much rubbish I`l never use again haha…
I seemed to have lost the watt and heart rate line graphs at the bottom of my screen. Is that part of this release or is there a way to reverse it? I found the color-coded graph really handy for keeping track of intervals
Press G on the keyboard if on Mac or PC to toggle the display of the graph on and off. On iOS or Android there is an icon in the set of icons at the bottom of the screen which does the same.
Thanks. On closer examination PC’s now have the icon at bottom of screen as well
It would be awesome to get more mountainbiking trails.
Drops and jumps on it where you must match your speed correct before jump or you will land short and loose speed.
Otherwise too much speed will and you will jump over landind zone and again loose speed.
“This bug should fix that.” Very nice!
Really digging that Mosaic frame. For the Zwifter who has everything.. and an abundance of Drops 😀
The new update has caused major malfunction with my Stages SB20 bike. Tried doing a workout this morning. ERG mode not functioning and Zwift was only picking up pulses of power from the bike. My avatar would get up to maybe 50w then stop, over and over, all whilst I was churning out a steady 200w or so. My advice to Stages bike owners: don’t download it until they release a fix!
Yes, came here to check if other users had problems. I was not sure as Stages App came out same day. Fresh batteries fixed that power issue. But I had to turn resistance off, it is getting bad data and gradient causes it to go easier or harder than it should.
And Wahoo direct connect? Still nothing?
Nothing official, but Zwift says they are for sure working on it. I think we’ll see something soon.
I have Intel HD 3000 graphic Mac and this update doesn’t work any more. How can I revert to previous version? I don’t want to buy a new mac.
You can’t. There have always been issues with riders on course using different versions of the software, hence Zwift has always forced an update before it allows you to start a ride once it is available.
The deprecation of support for older onboard graphics chips was announced a month or two back … the HD2000 and HD3000 series specifically, both of which Intel have long since stopped supporting themselves. Given that it is a full-blown 3D game environment, it is no surprise that the hardware requirements will change over time, otherwise development will stagnate.
An alternative to a new Mac might be a phone or tablet … if you have one.
Sorry, but you can’t. The’ve discontinued support for that graphics-processor.
You can’t revert to the old version. I have the same problem.
Now it seems I’m stuck with Zwift on smartphone 🙁
Sad to know but thank you!
The PC Version is broken.
The android version stopped connecting with Bluetooth devices. Who released this ?!?!
My PC and android installs are working fine.
Teammachine star rating makes very little sense. In the real world this bike is lighter than the Supersix Evo and arguably as aero.
There are only 4 stars to deal with. So two bikes could both be rated the same in terms of stars, but one be significantly lighter than the other. It’s not a terribly precise measurement in that sense…
So … how’s the TeamMachine perform?
Working on it!
Curious to see if I’ll finally be able to see the new home screen on my Zwift (Windows). Have many of you experienced it already?
My Build Me Up Trainingplan just got messed up. I am in the final week of the 10 week plan, but I completed all weeks except for week 8. Also, there are other trainings in my week 10 now. According to Zwift I already did those (in previous weeks)
I got the same problem. Since the update my 4 week FTP Builder plan got messed up. I was in my final week and skipped no training; Zwift now states that I missed week 2 and 3 and week 4 is already finished. Also the individual trainings are different from before. Week 4 is completely different. so now I cant finish my original plan. Since it was a 4/6 week training plan (and I did only 4), it seems like week 2 and 3 are added in between and week 5 and 6 are missing.
Suddenly my Apple TV won’t hold the BT connection to my Elite Drivo II.
All very good, and good to see that Zwift developers are listening to feedback but when will they allow access to the settings menu, workouts, garage etc without having to go ‘in game? It’s been asked for enough times.
And secondly it would be useful to add a workout to a meet up invite. Yes I know there is the work around, but as group workout organisers can set up workouts in the meet up itself why can’t Joe public?
Great review of the update as usual Eric
I don’t think you’ve placed enough emphasis on “Made improvements to the prioritization of sounds based on proximity of the Zwifter.”. This is a game breaker. I mean game fixer. Or …. something.
Just updated zwift and now my training plan is back at week one 😫 lost all my hard work!!! Please fix and do an update
Zwift syncs my activities to Strava, which in turn syncs to Apple Health. Since the update my activities are synced to Strava but no longer sync to Apple Health. If I record an activity directly in Strava it syncs to Apple Health so the permissions are correct. The issue has only started today post update after years of the working. Any ideas?
I have the same problem since today. Apple Health is not showing my strava (Zwift) workout.
I have the same issue not sure if it’s Zwift’s or Strava’s latest update that has caused this 🤔.
Strava has updated their Apple Health integration Zwift update not the cause
Hi James,
thanks for the update. So what is the approach to getting our Zwift rides to show in Apple Health as the Zwift Companion does show in Apple Health / Apple Fitness but doesn’t update the rings.
Hi the only solution would be to use Apple Watch as HRM or pair a HRM to your Apple Watch. I have used Apple Watch in the past however watch frequently would stop monitoring HR during an activity. In the short term as I upload to Garmin Connect also I will manually add the data from GC for the Zwift activity to Apple Health which will then sync to my Apple Watch move ring.
Training plan has completely messed up, on screen prompts reference the wrong week and workouts are from wrong weeks with the current week I am on being unavailable
So is this only available on certain pc users or all pc users?
One change I spotted that I am not a fan of is that we are now level-locked. I rode the Three Little Sisters route in an event, planning on leveling up from 42 to 43. After 6 km, I stopped getting XP and I am now stuck on 359,999 XP, an impossible number, really. They advertised Tour of Watopia as a way of leveling up, but they didn’t mention that you only get XP within your current level. No increases in level any more.
Weird… I leveled up from 27 to 28 mid-ride (at the beginning of Titans grove) and am pretty sure I got all the double XP points + route badge points I should have, because I am now 19% towards level 29.
I just went from 41 to 42 yesterday mid-event and kept ticking off XP just fine the next event too. What you’re describing hasn’t happened to me and I’ve been riding double stages for 2 days now.
I see still no mention of proper AMD GPU support (the only reasonably priced and in stock GPUs currently)
Support was only requested about a year ago.
Advice to anyone thinking of buying one of those cheap Ryzen Small Form Factor PCs for Zwift, don’t – all they will run is ‘basic’ graphics mode.. My RX6600 also only runs in ‘basic’ mode and have been told it’s the same for all RX6xxx cards.
The training flexibility upgrade seems to have broken many people’s structured training programs. As an example, I was doing a 12 week “build me up” program, now Zwift is saying the training is 10 weeks long, and the workouts from this week are gone, and if I look through my history, the workouts that I did in previous weeks don’t match what Zwift said I should have done.
All the week 11 & 12 stuff that I had to do doesn’t even appear anymore.
I have opened a ticket with Zwift, but looking in there forums, there are other people impacted by this too!
I think this should be documented in the update known issues page on Zwift.
Can we please use any collective influence on Zwift to get Apple Health integration added to next release since Strava took it away?
RunGap app will sync with Apple Health although I think you require the full paid version.
Anyone else experiencing issues with their GPU usage? I run a GeForce 960, Zwift in 4K mode and after the latest update I get 90-95% GPU spikes every 2-3 seconds, so basically the game keeps freezing and unfreezing constantly. There’s no FPS to speak of anymore, it’s as good as unplayable now. Any ideas how to fix that? (Please, no reinstall suggestions!) Thank you
Anyone else having trouble with abrupt app crash while racing? Attempted to race twice this weekend. First attempt was the 3R 3 Sisters race on Saturday and the second attempt was the Atcherbhan course on Sunday. Both races ended within 5 minutes of the start. Using a ipad as the device, not sure it matters though as it appears every single person doing the race was also kicked
How about fix for weight cheat? It was said that it would be fixed with new update. There is no info about it.
That was fixed two weeks ago: https://zwiftinsider.com/companion-alerts-weight-lock/
Strange question but how come my wife has the new homescreen layout but I don’t? We run it on the same pc and the app is on the same update but I don’t get it when I log in.
on the new homescreen is there the weekly/monthly set goals???
i could not see it