For Heart Month, Apple Watch owners can earn an award by completing a 30 minute workout to fill their Exercise ring on Wednesday, February 14, which is Valentine's Day.
This Valentine's day, it's all about heart. Close your Exercise ring on February 14 to get this award.
As with all of Apple's Activity Challenges, the Heart Month challenge will be accompanied by three awards that can be viewed in the Fitness app as well as a series of animated stickers that can be used in the Messages app.
To celebrate Heart Month, Apple also often provides themed content in the App Store, Apple TV app, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books.
Tuesday April 14, 2026 12:00 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Apple has two new Apple Watch activity challenges coming up, celebrating Earth Day and International Dance Day. The Earth Day activity challenge will launch on Wednesday, April 22, while the Dance Day challenge will take place a week later on Wednesday, April 29.
To complete the Earth Day challenge, Apple Watch owners will need to complete a workout that lasts for 30 minutes or longer.
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Apple recently announced that Tim Cook will be stepping down as CEO later this year, after 15 years of leading the company.
Effective September 1, Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus will become the company's next CEO, while Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board of directors. In his new role, Apple said Cook will assist with "certain aspects" of the company,...
While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are not launching until September, there are already plenty of rumors about the devices.
It was initially reported that the iPhone 18 Pro models would have fully under-screen Face ID, with only a front camera visible in the top-left corner of the screen. However, the latest rumors indicate that only one Face ID component will be moved under the...
Honestly, the AW is a pretty life changing device for me - closing those rings each day is such a great mind trick that gets me exercising, I just really appreciate it. And collecting the badges makes me feel like I did when I was a cub scout back in the day...!
I guess Apple trims special challenge down to only "health/ fitness" related challenges? But the Lunar year challenge was fun, I started collecting these signs and they just got pulled this year. Come on.....
Ohh right.. they missed that one this year huh? I was looking forward to a dragon medal 😔 ... oh well
I guess Apple trims special challenge down to only "health/ fitness" related challenges? But the Lunar year challenge was fun, I started collecting these signs and they just got pulled this year. Come on.....
