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How to use Plated
Step-by-step help for every part of the app, from your first food log to your hundredth PR. Pick a section, or search for what you want to do.
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01 · 12 how-tos
Getting started
Sign up, set your calorie and macro targets, and find your way around the five tabs.
02 · 31 how-tos
Nutrition
Log food by search, barcode or AI, build recipes, copy meals, and use the Pro tools for macros and micronutrients.
03 · 44 how-tos
Train
Start, log and finish workouts, track runs with GPS, use the plate calculator, make stickers and move your history in.
04 · 10 how-tos
Progress
Your workout calendar, steps, the muscle heatmap, bodyweight, body measurements and lift charts.
05 · 17 how-tos
Feed and Profile
Follow friends, post, like and compare lifts, and manage your profile, privacy and settings.
06 · 4 how-tos
Plated Pro
What Pro adds, how to subscribe, restore on a new phone, and cancel.
07 · 18 how-tos
FAQ and troubleshooting
Quick fixes for Apple Health, GPS, heart rate, notifications and syncing, plus what’s different on the web.
Every how-to
The full list, by section.
Getting started
- Get your plan before you sign up
- Create an account
- Sign in or reset your password
- What happens the first time you sign in
- Move between the tabs
- Find any feature with Search
- Open the intro guide again
- Open this guide from the app
- Change your goals later
- Switch units
- Switch between dark and light
- Use Plated in a web browser
Nutrition
- Read your day at a glance
- Move between days
- Set your calorie and macro targets
- Keep a logging streak
- See your nutrition summary
- Log a food by searching
- Choose a serving size and unit
- Log a restaurant meal
- Scan a barcode iPhone only
- Scan a barcode from a photo iPhone only
- Check or correct a scanned food
- Read a nutrition label with AI PRO iPhone only
- Look up a food with AI PRO
- Create your own food
- Edit or delete one of your foods
- Build a recipe
- Log, edit or delete a recipe
- Copy food from a past day
- Copy a previous meal
- Edit or delete a logged food
- See one meal’s totals
- What’s in Tools & settings
- Change your meal layout
- Set rest-day targets PRO
- Switch one day between rest and training PRO
- See micronutrients PRO
- Use the calorie calculator PRO
- Use Fill My Macros PRO
- Share a food or recipe with a friend
- Log something a friend sent you
- Export your food log
Train
- Anatomy of the workout screen
- Find your way around the Train tab
- Start an empty workout
- Start from a saved workout or a built-in split
- Build a template without starting a workout
- Save the workout you’re doing as a template
- Add exercises
- Create a custom exercise
- Edit an exercise
- Read the exercise card
- Pick the machine you’re on
- Switch between Both sides and One side
- Make a superset
- Replace, remove or reorder exercises
- Log an assisted exercise
- Log sets
- Change a set’s type
- Add a note to an exercise
- Use the Next suggestion PRO
- Use the rest timer
- Adjust the workout clock
- Minimise the workout
- Use the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island iPhone only
- Connect heart rate PRO
- Log cardio
- Track a run, walk or ride with GPS
- See splits and elevation
- Finish a workout
- Post or save the finished workout
- How PRs work
- Discard a workout
- View an exercise’s history
- Edit a past workout
- Merge duplicate exercises
- Make a sticker when you finish a workout
- Make a sticker from a post you shared
- Set up a run sticker
- Set up a PR sticker
- Set up a workout sticker PRO
- Set up an exercise or set sticker PRO
- Save or share a sticker
- Use the plate calculator PRO
- Set up your bar, collars and plates PRO
- Import your history from Hevy, Strong or another app
- Export your workouts as a CSV
Progress
- Read the workout calendar
- See what you did on a given day
- See your steps and walking distance iPhone only
- Use the muscle heatmap PRO
- Log your bodyweight
- Fix or delete a bodyweight entry
- Log body measurements
- View and edit one body part’s trend
- Switch bodyweight units
- See your progress on an exercise
Feed and Profile
- Find people and follow them
- Read and refresh the feed
- Post a workout, run or meal
- Like and comment
- Compare an exercise with a friend’s
- Save a workout or exercise from a post PRO
- Manage your own post
- Report a post or block someone
- Use notifications
- Look at someone’s profile
- Find your way around your profile
- Use the four profile tabs
- Change your photo, name and username
- Make your account private
- What’s in Settings
- Export your data
- Sign out or delete your account
FAQ and troubleshooting
- I don’t see a new feature or fix
- Steps or distance don’t show iPhone only
- Workouts don’t appear in Apple Health iPhone only
- Heart rate isn’t showing PRO
- My route has gaps, or tracking stopped when the phone locked
- The barcode scanner won’t open
- Save to Photos doesn’t work for a sticker
- I’m not getting notifications
- My data looks different on another device
- The workout timer is wrong
- Where are my older workouts?
- It says “Template limit reached”
- I blocked someone by mistake
- I signed up with Apple or Google and have no password
- Can I edit or delete a food I created?
- How do I get help or report a problem?
- How do I delete my account?
- What’s different on the web?
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