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Why does my step count differ from the Fitness app?

Your iPhone and your Apple Watch both count, and Health merges them. If several sources recorded the same walk, Settings → Health → When sources overlap lets you keep the largest rather than adding them together, which is the usual fix for totals that look doubled.

I changed my goal and my old days changed colour.

They shouldn't. A goal applies from the day you set it forward. If you want an older stretch judged differently, add a dated goal in Settings → In force and give it a start and end date.

My streak looks wrong.

By default one missed day is forgiven once you've met the goal six days running, and today never breaks a streak until it has actually met the goal. Settings → Streaks switches to strict if you'd rather every day counted.

The complication is out of date.

Turn on Settings → Health → Background updates. Without it, widgets and complications only refresh while you have the app open.

Does walk mode drain my battery?

It's built not to. Walk mode opens a workout session purely to keep the screen on and the count live — it collects no heart rate, no energy and no location, which are the expensive parts of a normal workout.