Roger Fingas
To mark American Heart Month, which promotes cardiovascular health, Apple is launching a special Activity Challenge for the Apple Watch, which comes with a badge and three animated iMessage stickers for whoever completes it.
Earning the badge requires closing the Exercise ring every day between Feb. 8 and Feb. 14 — Valentine's Day. The iMessage stickers pulsate, and in fact are the first animated stickers being awarded for any Activity Challenge.
Apple regularly runs Activity Challenges to promote causes. Internally the company is using the Watch to run annual fitness competitions, with special rewards for people who achieve "gold" status. This year's prize is a custom Activity-themed Watch band.
During Thursday's quarterly earnings call, Apple said that the Watch had managed 50 percent growth in both units and revenue for a fourth consecutive quarter. This was aided by the launch of the Apple Watch Series 3, the first model to offer cellular support.
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These things sure would be interesting if they actually worked as advertised. I've gotten February's award already, just like my wife got January's on about 1/3. I was promised a challenge award that I met - it even showed it as completed, but greyed out on 1/31, but then two days later it simply disappeared.
More Apple QC woes.
Would have to agree with Eightzero comment. The Activity App is one of the worst coded apps I have used. It is riddled with bugs.
Just to give the opposite perspective from the 2 comments above. I wear my Apple watch (S2) every day and closely monitor the Activity App for health reasons. I've had it for nearly a year, never seen a single bug...flawless
I haven’t seen errors either. Although I’m disappointed that some of these challenges aren’t available in Canada.
They should go for negative reinforcement as well so if you don't complete the goals, you get an animated sticker of a struggling, plaque-lined heart.