Apple Watch Wearers Can Earn Thanksgiving Day Badge on Thursday

Apple today announced that Apple Watch users can earn a special Thanksgiving Day badge and accompanying iMessage sticker by completing a walk, run, or wheelchair workout with a distance of at least 5K (3.1 miles) on November 23.

As with the Veterans Day badge, this achievement is only available on devices that have United States set as the region. The distance can be recorded with the Workout app or any third-party app that adds workouts to the Health app.

Apple Watch users can view a history of achievements via the Achievements tab in the Activity app on a paired iPhone.

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OldSchoolMacGuy

29 months ago

These badges may seem silly but they inspire a lot of people to do more to earn them. Anything you can do to get people to exercise more will benefit them. It'd be awesome to see more of these badges pop up, even when there isn't a holiday to coincide with (a monthly special badge challenge or random weekend badges).

Rating: 11 Votes

Relentless Power

29 months ago

Perfect excuse to get away from the in-laws trying to earn my badge.

Rating: 11 Votes

DynaFXD

29 months ago

Who wants to run 3 miles on Thanksgiving day?

Everyone's gonna be on the couch watching football, and then eating turkey.

Anything that helps get people off their collective butts and from over indulging in some non-sensical tradition based gorge-fest and TV binge watching is OK in my book.

Rating: 11 Votes

0003939

29 months ago

Alright, here's another "unobtainable" badge for not being in America like myself.

Rating: 8 Votes

Saipher

29 months ago

Why apple "forces" us to walk/run as the exercise form for Thanksgiving? I understand that's a tradition to some people, but could we not just earn the badge for just doing any exercise in general?

Rating: 6 Votes

Kermit262

29 months ago

So glad I signed up for my local Turkey Trot 5-miler on Thanksgiving morning. Finishers get a pumpkin pie, technical shirt, medal, and now a Thanksgiving Day Achievement Badge! :)

Rating: 5 Votes

Kabeyun

29 months ago

Waiting for Apple to get sued by NBC for copying the logo.

Rating: 5 Votes

toph2toast

29 months ago

I think the point is that since it's a distance based goal it has to be an outdoor walk or run type of workout so the GPS can track it. For me it would be cool to get the badge for doing an hour on the elliptical which is well over the 5K distance, but my Apple Watch doesn't know that.

Since the watch calibrates itself from outdoor runs/walks to estimate the distance traveled during indoor run/walks, wouldn't a 5k on a treadmill still earn you this badge?

Rating: 3 Votes