Apple Watch achievements, awards, badges, whatever you want to call them, they are definitely a great way to keep you motivated. The Apple Watch activity awards can be earned by using one’s smartwatch while performing a specific activity type on a particular day.
Getting the Apple Watch achievements will not in anyway affect the fitness or wellness but it’s a great way to stay engaged with the devices; overall tracking experience. These awards can be a great motivator, and the Apple Watch achievement badges can be a great inspiration for many users to do more exercise.
Apple Watch fitness badges
Most common is the ‘Monthly Challenges’. You have to burn a specific number of calories or accumulate a certain number of exercise minutes over a month to earn this.
Infrequently given awards are for specific days: ‘International Women’s Day Challenge’ or ‘Earth Day Challenge’. You cannot get them again.
The conditions for earning each award tend to change each year.
A notification shall popup on your Apple Watch the day before a limited-time award becomes available.
Full list of confirmed Apple Watch Awards in 2025:
Ring in the New Year Challenge: Close all three rings for seven days in a row in January
Heart Month Challenge: Close your Exercise Ring on 14 February
Global Close Your Rings Day Challenge: Close all three rings on 24 April (you can also claim a special edition physical pin from Apple stores globally starting this same date)
Earth Day Challenge: One has to workout for around 30 minutes on Earth Day 2025 (22 April)
Global Running Day Challenge: To earn this one has to run for atleast 5 kilometres on 4 June 2025
National Fitness Day Challenge (Just for China): Working out for minimum of 20 minutes on August 8, 2025.
World Mental Health Day: Perform meditation for 10 minutes with any app that has the features on October 10, 2025
Veterans Day Challenge: Do workout for around 11 minutes on November 11.
World Meditation Day: On December 21, record five mindful minutes or more with the Mindfulness app (or any app that adds mindful minutes to Health)
Checking Out Apple Watch Awards
One can check the progress made and how many Apple Watch achievements they have achieved via the iPhone or Apple Watch Activity app.
For checking the Apple Activity Awards go on your Watch, open the Activity app and select the badge icon. There is a library of badges categorized under ‘Close Your Rings’, ‘Monthly Challenges’, ‘Limited Edition’, ‘Workouts’, and ‘Competitions’.
The list includes unlocked and locked badges, which is the same format as the iPhone version of the Activity app. To access the library, scroll down to the ‘Awards’ section from the main ‘Summary’ tab, as shown above.
List of standard Apple Watch Awards
Most Apple Watch badges can be earned all year round: Listed here are the common achievements you can aim for
‘Close Your Rings’ badges
Move Goal 200% – double your daily move goal
Move Goal 300% – triple your daily move goal
Move Goal 400% – quadruple your daily move goal
New Move Goal – set a new move goal and break it once
New Move Record – set a new personal best for most calories burned in a day
New Exercise Record – set a new personal best of exercise minutes in a day
Longest Move Streak – go on a streak of reaching your Move goal
Perfect Week (Move) – reach your Move goal each day of the week
Perfect Week (Stand) – reach your Stand goal each day of the week
Perfect Week (Exercise) – reach your Exercise goal each day of the week
Perfect Week (All Activity) – reach all three goals every day for a full week
100 Move Goals
365 Move Goals
500 Move Goals
1,000 Move Goals
1,250 Move Goals
1,500 Move Goals
1,750 Move Goals
2,000 Move Goals
2,250 Move Goals
2,500 Move Goals
2,750 Move Goals
3,000 Move Goals
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