Configure iPhone's Action Button

The Action Button is available on all iPhone 15 Pro, and on every iPhone 16 or later.

Make Sure SmartGym is Updated

In order to configure the Action Button on your iPhone to work with SmartGym, you need to have SmartGym version 7.5 or newer installed on your iPhone.

To check which version you have installed, open SmartGym, tap "More", then scroll down to "Version".

If SmartGym is not updated, simply open the App Store, search for SmartGym, and tap Update.


Make Sure You're Running iOS 18

Make sure your iPhone is running iOS 18. You can see this by opening the Settings app, then going to "General", then tapping "About".


Configure SmartGym

  1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
  2. Scroll down and tap "Action Button".
  3. Scroll the list to the right, then select "Shortcut" from that list.
  4. Tap the "Choose a Shortcut" button.
  5. Search for "SmartGym" at the top search field, then scroll down to the bottom of the list and select "Smart Action".

After First Press (Smart Action)

After you started your workout using the Action Button, you can keep pressing it to move forward within your workout.

This means that the Action Button will always trigger the next step in your workout. This can be to log a set and start a rest timer, or cancel that timer, or move to the next exercise if it's the last set, or move back to a previous exercise in a superset, or many other actions.

For example: If you are inside the exercise's detail screen and still have some sets to be done, pressing the Action Button will log a set and start the rest timer. If you have a timer running, pressing the Action Button will cancel that timer. If you've done all sets for that specific exercise, pressing the Action Button will move to the next exercise. If you've done every exercise from this specific routine, pressing the Action Button will end the workout session.

Basically, SmartGym is constantly analyzing your progress to always predict what the next action is, so you can always trigger this action by just pressing the Action Button.