Strava is deleting millions of users’ activities

January 28, 2026

Strava is back defending the honour of its users, but with a much warmer reception this time. That’s because the social fitness platform is deleting users activities. Millions of them. Anything that’s incorrectly tagged or improperly cropped. Gone. Straight to jail. Deleted and removed from leaderboards.

The new policy, which Reddit commenters seem quite happy about, replaces Strava’s previous process of users flagging suspicious activities. Instead, Strava’s taught a Machine Learning model to detect suspicious activities. The platform then combed the leaderboards of millions of leaderboards and just deleted anything that didn’t look right. CANADIAN Cycling MAGAZINE