Your recovery score is most useful in the two seconds you glance at your wrist, not the two minutes you spend opening an app. Helix ships watch-face complications for recovery, strain and sleep, and matching widgets for the iPhone home screen, so the numbers you decide your day by are visible without opening anything.
Complications on the watch face
Helix offers complications for the metrics that drive the daily loop: this morning’s recovery, today’s climbing strain, and last night’s sleep. They are built to stay fresh, so the number on your watch face matches the number in the app.
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Open face editing
Touch and hold your current watch face, then tap Edit. - 2
Pick a complication slot
Swipe to the complications screen and tap the slot you want Helix to occupy. Larger slots show more detail; small corner slots show just the number. - 3
Choose Helix
Scroll the app list to Helix and pick recovery, strain or sleep. You can fill several slots with different Helix metrics on the same face. - 4
Confirm
Press the Digital Crown to save and tap the face to make it active.
Widgets on the iPhone home screen
The iPhone widgets read from a shared snapshot the app publishes every time it computes, so they update whenever your scores do: after the morning recovery run, after a workout, after a sleep import.
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Enter edit mode
Touch and hold an empty area of the home screen until the apps begin to jiggle. - 2
Add a widget
Tap the add control, search for Helix, and swipe through the available sizes. - 3
Place it
Tap to add, drag it where you want it, and tap Done.
How fresh is fresh?
Honesty matters more here than anywhere, so here is exactly how it works. Widgets and complications do not compute anything themselves; they display the latest snapshot the app produced. That snapshot refreshes whenever the app computes, and iOS and watchOS additionally decide when a widget is allowed to redraw on their own system schedules. In practice the numbers track the app closely through the day.
Complications share data with the watch app itself, so everything on the wrist stays in step. The watch app page covers what else lives there, including live workout tracking with climbing strain.