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Apple Fitness+ Gains Dedicated Awards in iOS 16

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iOS 16 now features dedicated awards for Apple Fitness+ workouts, as of the third developer beta.

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In iOS 15, activity awards are earned by completing specific challenges, such as hitting a new Move ring record, having a perfect exercise week, or reaching 100 Move goals. The awards can be achieved both with and without Fitness+ workouts, but in iOS 16, Apple is offering a new way for users to celebrate their Fitness+ achievements.

The new awards, added in the third developer beta of iOS 16, relate to specific Fitness+ workouts and categories and are identifiable by their unique shape.

It is not yet clear how many Fitness+ awards are up for grabs, but MacRumors has seen new awards for completing milestone numbers of Fitness+ workouts, both in terms of total workouts across categories and individual categories, Fitness+ workout streaks, and best workouts for individual categories, as well as awards for the first time a new Fitness+ workout category is completed.

The awards are available retrospectively for completed Fitness+ workouts that have met an award's criteria, but users may not see the new awards on their devices until they complete their next Fitness+ workout.

In addition to the new Fitness+ awards, Apple has also added new standard awards for milestone running distances, starting at five kilometers.

Beyond new activity awards, iOS 16 brings the Fitness app to all iPhone users, even if they don't use an Apple Watch, allowing them to set up a daily Move goal and see how their active calories help to close their Move ring.

Thanks, Dominic!

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Oh that explains it, I got an award for doing my "first 5K" this morning and I was confused cause I do a few of those a week. Cool new feature!
 
I am ready for a massive workout/content dump. I am trying to move my workouts from peloton to fitness+, but the amount of content is keeping me from moving 100%.
 
I don't get it, not one bit. Seems like people are being trained to get awards for just about everything now. Playing games like GTA and Red Dead it constantly pops up with little awards for doing some inane thing. Zero value or worth and does nothing for me. I don't get how these can be a motivator for working out or why you care an automated computer system has tracked what you have done and at the preordained time gives you a graphical element that is given to everyone who does the exact same thing, automatically. On the other hand I do get how Peloton and iFit motivate. I use iFit on my excercycle which gets connected to my iPad and monitors my progress, adjusts the resistance to match what the instructor is doing all while giving me a glimpse into some interesting places. Currently following an instructor who is riding around Tuscany for 16 sessions. Videos are pre reordered but you are getting banter and motivational talk from a trained professional. Now I don't care what this trainer thinks, it makes me cringe when they say how they love doing this ride with me and they are so proud of me, but the rest is helpful and motivating. Of course there are awards as well, but like the Apple ones they get completely ignored.
 
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wonderings said:
I don't get it, not one bit. Seems like people are being trained to get awards for just about everything now. Playing games like GTA and Red Dead it constantly pops up with little awards for doing some inane thing. Zero value or worth and does nothing for me. I don't get how these can be a motivator for working out or why you care an automated computer system has tracked what you have done and at the preordained time gives you a graphical element that is given to everyone who does the exact same thing, automatically. On the other hand I do get how Peloton and iFit motivate. I use iFit on my excercycle which gets connected to my iPad and monitors my progress, adjusts the resistance to match what the instructor is doing all while giving me a glimpse into some interesting places. Currently following an instructor who is riding around Tuscany for 16 sessions. Videos are pre reordered but you are getting banter and motivational talk from a trained professional. Now I don't care what this trainer thinks, it makes me cringe when they say how they love doing this ride with me and they are so proud of me, but the rest is helpful and motivating. Of course there are awards as well, but like the Apple ones they get completely ignored.
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Imagine caring this much about something nobody will force you to like. If you don't like it, no problem there. It is weird to be this passionate about others liking it though.
 
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wonderings said:
I don't get it, not one bit. Seems like people are being trained to get awards for just about everything now. Playing games like GTA and Red Dead it constantly pops up with little awards for doing some inane thing. Zero value or worth and does nothing for me. I don't get how these can be a motivator for working out or why you care an automated computer system has tracked what you have done and at the preordained time gives you a graphical element that is given to everyone who does the exact same thing, automatically. On the other hand I do get how Peloton and iFit motivate. I use iFit on my excercycle which gets connected to my iPad and monitors my progress, adjusts the resistance to match what the instructor is doing all while giving me a glimpse into some interesting places. Currently following an instructor who is riding around Tuscany for 16 sessions. Videos are pre reordered but you are getting banter and motivational talk from a trained professional. Now I don't care what this trainer thinks, it makes me cringe when they say how they love doing this ride with me and they are so proud of me, but the rest is helpful and motivating. Of course there are awards as well, but like the Apple ones they get completely ignored.
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Not to sound cliqued, but "it just works". If not others doing these fun achievements for you, people have made up their own and pursued them for themselves.
 
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I have to work hard at keeping these sort of things from popping up on my Apple Watch. I don't care about meeting my move goal, exercise goal, etc., that are based upon what the watch thinks I've done. I take care of my own monitoring and use my Apple Watch to mostly keep track of the time I spend working out, calculating my walking pace, and providing me a history of my pulse rate. It's great for that.

Yeah, getting some pixels of light as a "reward" makes no sense at all.
 
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Imagine caring this much about something nobody will force you to like. If you don't like it, no problem there. It is weird to be this passionate about others liking it though.
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I would not say there is a lot of passion on the subject. It does not take a whole lot of effort to have an opinion and post it on a forum. I would think a lot of people also do this for all sorts of things all the time, trying to understand the mindset of why someone would like or not like something. I would say it is more weird to be motivated by digital icons. Some participation ribbons might just help push people over the top!
 
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I sure hope Apple is revamping the whole fitness challenge thing, these monthly challenges just keep pushing higher and higher, not taking age, rest days and such into consideration…
 
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ackmondual said:
Not to sound cliqued, but "it just works". If not others doing these fun achievements for you, people have made up their own and pursued them for themselves.
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I won't argue with whatever works for people, but I still would question the mental aspect though of what about a digital icon spurs someone on. I am sure someone has done a study on this somewhere, would be an interesting read for sure.
 
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