Fitness App/Apple Watch Cosing Exercise Ring

[Irish_Tom]

Ok, I know this sounds petty and a little bit sad, but I'm two days away from a full year of closing all three rings and I've just realised that on the 16th of June, I only logged 29 minutes on the exercise ring instead of 30.

What's frustrating is, I know I did more than 30mins exercise that day so I'm not sure why it didn't log it or why I didn't notice at the time.

According to some guides online, you can add an activity using the Health app which will count towards your rings. So I added an 'Other' workout for the 16th. It's added the calories to my Move ring but hasn't budged the Exercise ring.

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Irish_Tom]

I think you're screwed.

I was well over a two year streak when my Apple Watch broke and I had to take it for repair. There was nothing they could do in store and had to send it away. I was livid about losing the streak but in time, I got over it. Mostly.

Bugger.

I expected that would be the case but thought I would check.

I can tell the pain is still real.

It's just annoying that it's going to be a single minute that scuppers a whole year of perfect rings.

I lost a three-year streak on Grammarly a couple of weeks ago as well.

I think I'm going to try and make a conscious effort to care less about these gamification milestone things!

 

[Irish_Tom]

Couple of suggestions; not sure if they will work or not. But:
- Change the date/time of your iPhone, which will change the watch and then re-record a workout to close the ring?
- Manually enter a workout in Health app and put it for the day you're missing?

Further info here: https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/cheat-your-apple-watch-rings-0191261/

I'll give the change date/time thing a go.

I've already tried manually entering a workout in the Health app — it added calories to my move ring but didn't budge the Exercise ring.

If you download something like My Wellness by techno gym, you might be able to add your own results, but I’m not sure if that adds to the exercise part of fitness on the Apple Watch.

That's worth a go as well. I wonder if Strava would sync it.