National Parks Apple Watch Activity Challenge Coming on August 25

Apple will host its annual National Parks Apple Watch activity challenge on Sunday, August 25. The event is designed to celebrate national parks across the United States.

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Apple Watch owners can earn an Apple Watch activity award by doing a workout that lasts for 20 minutes or more on August 25, 2024.

As with all of the activity challenges, the award will come with animated stickers that can be used in the Messages app.

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Apple often offers other national parks-themed content in August, including an Apple Pay donation program, Apple TV+ content, Apple Music songs, books, podcasts, and more.

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Top Rated Comments

xander49x Avatar
8 months ago
I wish Apple had a better system of letting everyone know about the challenges, more people would participate.
we need more challenges Apple.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
_Dubs_ Avatar
8 months ago
Some of these specialized challenges my watch will notify me, but mostly not. It would be nice to get a reminder the morning of.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jz0309 Avatar
8 months ago

If I had a National Park even remotely close to me, I'd do this.
all you have to do is a 20 min workout, of any kind ... it used to be outdoor walk/run if I recall but they changed that. I missed this in the past while biking for 2hrs through a national park ...
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Mandalorian1310 Avatar
8 months ago

I mean, the watch already does this last I checked
How exactly? Is it a setting? I have literally never received a notification in all the years I’ve owned an Apple Watch
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
xSushi Avatar
8 months ago

I wish Apple had a better system of letting everyone know about the challenges, more people would participate.
we need more challenges Apple.
And also a nice trophy case to view your friends achievements and favorite badges.

Apple continues to be bad at marketing all the cool things they actually have buried in their software :/
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DocMultimedia Avatar
8 months ago

I wish Apple had a better system of letting everyone know about the challenges, more people would participate.
we need more challenges Apple.
I really do enjoy these. Would be nice to have quirky ones every so often. "Hop, skip, and jump," if you do ten minutes of some exercise.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)