Apple Plans Apple Watch Activity Challenge for World Meditation Day on May 21

Apple's next Apple Watch activity challenge will launch on Tuesday, May 21 to celebrate World Meditation Day. This marks the first time that Apple has hosted an activity challenge for the occasion.

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To complete the challenge, Apple Watch owners will need to record five or more mindful minutes using the Mindfulness app or any app that adds mindful minutes to Health app. Apple Watch owners who earn the Meditation Day award will unlock a dedicated badge in the Fitness app, plus they will get a series of animated stickers that can be used in the Messages and FaceTime apps.

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The Meditation Day challenge follows the April Earth Day and Dance Day challenges.

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redbeard331 Avatar
22 months ago
I miss these challenges every time because Apple doesn’t send a reminder on the day of.
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redbeard331 Avatar
22 months ago

I am seeing the reminder days before. Did you turn off the coaching or are you talking about the specific days?
The specific day, like how hard would it be to send everyone a message saying that today there’s an Apple Watch challenge?
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TigerNike23 Avatar
22 months ago
I’m getting Soviet-era Radio Moscow vibes from that logo.



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22 months ago
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
...and relax.
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RedWeasel Avatar
22 months ago
Just what meditation is about...
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22 months ago
I really like these stickers. Time to set a proper meditation-themed wallpaper onto my screen to "get in the zone" for this...




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