Whether you call them Apple Watch awards, achievements, badges, or something else, the Activity app’s shiny little digital kudos are a great way to keep you motivated.
You can earn them simply by using your smartwatch during workouts or performing a specific activity type on a particular day. They don’t affect your overall fitness, but collecting them is a great way to stay engaged with the Apple Watch’s tracking experience.
Apple has provided eight limited-time challenges in 2025. And if history is anything to go by, we won’t see any more until the start of 2026. However, you can use this guide to cross-reference what you’ve snagged or missed out on—and plan your badge hunting for next year.
Limited-time Apple Watch Awards in 2025
Each year, Apple will distribute numerous limited-time awards that users can earn.
The most common is the ‘Monthly Challenges’. These rotating, semi-personalized challenges may ask you to burn a specific number of calories or accumulate a certain number of exercise minutes over a month.
Rarer awards are given out on specific days of the year, such as the ‘International Women’s Day Challenge’ or ‘Earth Day Challenge’. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.
We’ll update this list as Apple announces more throughout 2025 (and into 2026), including ones limited by region.
The conditions for earning each award tend to change each year. However, we don’t typically see many new introductions, so this should provide insight into most of what’s coming.
You should also be notified 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: Perform any workout for 30 minutes or more on Earth Day 2025 (22 April)
- Global Running Day Challenge: Record a running workout of at least 5 kilometers on 4 June 2025
- National Fitness Day Challenge (China-only): On 8 August 2025, users in China can earn this award by doing any workout for at least 20 minutes
- World Mental Health Day: On 10 October 2025, record 10 minutes of mindfulness or meditation with any app that adds mindful minutes to Health to get this award
- Veterans Day Challenge: On November 11, record any workout for 11 minutes or more
How to view Apple Watch Awards
Unwittingly, you’ll likely have earned many badges already, and you can check your progress via the iPhone or Apple Watch Activity app.
To view Activity Awards on the Apple Watch, open the Activity app and select the badge icon in the bottom-right corner.
You’ll be greeted by 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, with some taking the form of streaks, others being single-activity records, and the odd few being a celebration of your cumulative effort.
Below, we’ll list all the common achievements you can aim for – and they live under the ‘Close Your Rings’, ‘Workouts’, and ‘Competitions’ tabs.
‘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
‘Workouts’ badges
This section is reserved for all badges specifically related to each of the 18 total workout modes—and none, as far as we know, for workouts you tag as ‘Other’.
These typically include a ‘First [exercise type] workout’ and ‘[Exercise type record]’, though for running, for example, these also include things like ‘Fastest 5K’ and Longest Running Workout’.
The most common ‘Workout’ award you’re likely to come across is the ‘7-Workout Week’, which you earn by, you guessed it, performing seven total workouts over a Monday-Sunday period.
Unlike with the ‘Close Your Rings’ awards above, you won’t see these greyed out if you haven’t earned them yet.
‘Competitions’ badges
These awards rely on sharing Apple Watch Activity Rings info with another user and partaking in a Competition.
Once you’ve done so, you’ll have the ability to receive a badge every time you beat an individual user (or friend, as they’re sometimes known), as well as a token badge – ‘Competition Complete’ – even if you lose.
