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 have any bearing on your overall fitness, but collecting them is a great way to stay engaged with the Apple Watch tracking experience.
This guide details the limited-time badges expected in 2025 and how to view past achievements. Let’s get into it.
Limited-time Apple Watch Awards we might see in 2025

Each year, Apple will dole out many limited-time awards users can earn.
The most common is the ‘Monthly Challenges’. These rotating, semi-personalized challenges may ask you to burn a certain amount of calories or rack up 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, but below we’ll also list what was available to collect in 2024 (not including regional-specific awards like Veterans Day).
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.

Confirmed Apple Watch Awards for 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
Ones that may arrive later this year:
- Earth Day Challenge: Do any workout for 30 minutes or more on Earth Day – likely available on 21 April 2025
- International Dance Day Challenge: Record a dance workout for 20 minutes or longer – likely available on 29 April 2025
- World Meditation Day Challenge: Record 5 minutes or more in the Mindfulness app (or any that connects Mindful Minutes to the Apple Health app) – likely available on 21 May 2025
- Global Running Day Challenge: Record a running workout of at least 5 kilometers on Global Running Day – likely available on 4 June 2025
- Yoga Day Challenge: Do a yoga workout of at least 10 minutes – likely available on 21 June 2025
- National Parks Challenge: Record a workout of any type for 20 minutes or longer – likely available in August 2025
- World Mental Health Day Challenge: Record at least 10 mindful minutes – likely available on 10 October 2025
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’.
On the list are unlocked and locked badges, with this format mirrored for 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 of 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 the 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.