Finding Friends and Managing Contacts on Strava

Strava gets even more fun when you find and invite friends. Following friends opens up a world of social interaction and gets the competitive spirit going.

Finding Friends

• On the Strava app, select You from the bottom navigation menu and open your profile by tapping your profile picture from the top navigation bar. Tap the magnifying glass icon on the next page.
• From this page, you can search by name in the search bar. You can also browse through suggested connections and friends from your phone's contacts and generate a QR code for others to scan.
• When you find a new athlete you want to follow, tap the orange Follow icon next to their name.
• Select Invite at the bottom of the screen to send invitations with your preferred messaging app.

Connect to Your Contacts

• By adding your contacts, Strava will list the contacts you already follow, suggest friends to follow based on contacts already on Strava, and show other contacts who are not on Strava.

Disconnecting and Removing Phone Contacts

• To disconnect your contacts:
  • Open your phone's settings, scroll down to find Strava, and tap on it. There, you can disable access to contacts.
• To remove contacts on Strava:
  • From the Strava mobile app, open your settings from the icon in the upper right corner of the You tab.
  • Select Contacts > toggle or click the box to turn off "Access to contacts."
  • Please be aware that if you've never given Strava permission to access your phone's contact book, Strava does not have access to your contacts, and the settings won't apply to you.