If I join later will my steps be counted from start of the challenge?

Your challenge participation can now be tracked in full length, even if you have joined on a
later date! 

This means that the challenges in which you decide to participate will pull all the activities you have available on your Stats page for the duration of the challenge, once you join in.

In other words, regardless of your join date, your steps will be uploaded for the entire challenge up to the join date and will continue to accumulate during your participation.

Let's go through some scenarios that would apply to this:

• If you joined on the 5th day of the challenge and your steps are uploaded on the Stats page for the previous 5 days, your challenge steps will be counted and uploaded for all 5 days.
• If you joined on the 18th day of the challenge and you have steps on the Stats page for all of them, they will all be counted towards your challenge score.
• If you joined on the 22nd day of the challenge and you only have 7 days of steps uploaded on your Stats page for that month, your challenge score will count those 7 days and continue uploading for the further period during the challenge.

In case your steps have been adjusted for certain days during the challenge, your challenge score will update accordingly too. 

NOTE: The 14-day backtracking rule still applies. 
In case you have joined the challenge late and do not have any steps on your Stats page, you will only be able to backtrack 14 days of data on your Stats page. Afterward, they would get included and counted in your challenge score as well.