You can now start your 2021 journey healthily by taking part in the Apple Watch 'Ring in the New Year' as the bonus challenge returns.
Apple's 'Ring in the New Year' challenge returns as it encourages users to start the year healthily by taking part in the annual activity. The Apple Watch 'Ring in the New Year' challenge, which started several years ago, is the Cupertino tech giant's way of promoting good health among its smartwatch users. Those who can complete the challenge successfully receive an award in the form of a unique badge that everyone can see in the Awards section of their Apple Watch or iPhone's Fitness app.
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The 'Ring in the New Year' activity challenge involved asking users to close all three activity rings each day for seven straight days. The activity rings consist of moving, exercising, and standing, where users need to perform each for seven days between January 7 and January 31, 2021. If you can close all three activity rings, Apple will award you with a unique badge that you can proudly display on the Fitness app of your iPhone or Apple Watch.
Some users ask if they can still receive the badge if they were not able to complete all the three rings on a particular day. According to the rules of the 'Ring in the New Year' Apple Watch activity challenge, users receive the unique badge as an award only if they have closed successfully all three rings for seven consecutive days without any break. This means that if you closed all three rings successfully for four days, took a break, or did not complete the rings on the fifth day, and then you continued for three more days to compensate for the one-day break or that one time you did not close the circle successfully, you cannot expect to receive the award.
So what happens if you took a break or did not complete the rings successfully for one day in the 'Ring in the New Year' Apple Watch activity challenge? Then you would have to start from the beginning and keep on performing the activities required every day for seven consecutive days. You also need to complete the required activities within the specified period, which in this case is between January 7 and January 31, 2020.
What other benefits can you get aside from receiving that unique activity badge upon completing the rings successfully within the specified period in the 'Ring in the New Year' Apple Watch activity challenge? There is no monetary or economic reward except perhaps gaining personal satisfaction that you started the New Year right by striving to live a healthier and fuller life. Health experts, however, say that more than just an economic reward is the realization that you have achieved something that you thought at the outset was impossible to accomplish. Users become more inspired to get more exercise when they receive achievement badges for completing successfully the 'Ring in the New Year' Apple Watch activity challenge. This is better than any economic reward as achievement badges are excellent motivators.
