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How the hell does the "stand" ring work? I'm up for 10 hours and it's still open
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Anything more than 3 and you’re playing with it...
The STAND ring is for the user to be active, STAND and move. One freaking minute, you get it if you go pee. If the user sits all day without moving, or if the user sleeps more than 12 hours in a single day, the ring won't close BECAUSE THE USER DIDN'T FULFILL THE GOAL.
So yeah, you can adjust the move ring to 10 calories if you want, but that's kind of cheating, isn't it?
If you're not active, you don't get a trophy for being active.
So yeah, you can adjust the move ring to 10 calories if you want, but that's kind of cheating, isn't it?
If you're not active, you don't get a trophy for being active.
Haha you have 24 hours to do it there champ...
You might need some help outside of this, you may be taking this a liiiiiiiiittle too seriously.
Well said....There’s no participation trophy for not closing your rings, you have to legitimately earn it
I AM appalled!! I want to cheat and put a super low Move goal that can be completed within 15 minutes of waking up, then I only want to set 1hr for my Stand goal so that all I have to do is stand up once all day. Then I'll start a Workout on my watch while I'm sitting on the couch watching a movie! I'll get all these closed Activity rings and associated trophies that I can then use to brag to my all of my friends. This way, I can go to bed at 10pm, wake up at 4pm the NEXT day and still have a perfect day!
The feature works as intended. It's been that way since day 1 and it's been fine for pretty much everyone, either people care about closing the rings or people don't care and ignore them. If you care, this is one metric you can't really cheat, although you can wildly flail your arm in the air and swing it around and maybe get the credit. It doesn't matter when the 8hr block of sleep happens in a 24hr period, that still gives you 16 "awake" hours available to close the 12.
I have requested that Apple add a 'special' participation trophy if you can just manage to get out of bed for more than 1 hour a day.
I bet this would be unfathomable to you.
So you think that being sick in bed all day deserves a medal? The rings are supposed to be goals to strive for, not something you can achieve lying in bed!
I think the OP deserves a medal. And a bedpan.
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Apple has to PATCH THIS11!!!1 I'm standing twice a day and my friggin ring doesn't close!11!!!!
I've had diarrhoea all day and my ring hasn't closed even once!!
I don't have anything useful to add to this conversation, but i wanted to post a comment so I get notified when new comments are posted. This thread fell off the first page and I'd hate to lose track of it. Funniest thread I've read in a while (well this one and the one about the magical watch that receives messages when 'totally' disconnected from everything)
Another way is to tap ‘Watch Thread’ at the top right of the page, and then select ‘and receive email notifications’.
Actually, if you’re awake, you can still close the stand ring. I find that all I have to do is hang my arm over the edge of the bed and swing it for a minute or so.
the point of the stand ring is to adjust your behavior to it, not to adjust it for your behavior. Why would you want your activity app to show a closed ring every day for days when you did not stand for a minute for 12 hours that day? That doesn’t paint an accurate record at all. Sounds like you have an OCD thing about closing the ring and you don’t actually want accurate activity records, which isn’t an Apple Watch problem, it’s a YOU problem.
If you get up at 4pm then presumably you went to bed at around 8am which means the hours you were up after midnight and before you went to bed will count towards your day, and then when you get up at 4pm you can finish the rest.
If you’re sleeping from 12am to 4pm then I think you have bigger problems than closing your stand ring!!
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You do realise that the stand ring is encouraging you to stand more and not be inactive for long periods of time. You complaining you cant close the ring because you get up, sit on your couch and then go back to bed has to be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen on this forum before. How can you expect to close the ring when your lifestyle is clearly not active enough to do so. The system doesn’t need changing, you need to change your lifestyle and habits to be more active if you want to close all 3 rings each day.
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Again. Does it really need explaining that you obviously aren’t going to close your STAND ring when you are LYING in bed all day sick.
Also if you can close your calorie ring by walking for such a short amount of time then you probably have it at the lowest possible setting. It sounds like you care more about cheating your way into closing all 3 rings each day rather than using the Apple Watches features to develop and sustain a more active and healthy lifestyle.
I'm 190 lb 13% body ft, 5'9 and can deadlift 405 for multiple reps and count calories down to the gram...... I think I know a healthy lifestyle... The stand ring was designed for people who sit behind a computer all day eating cheese sticks.. But I can count multiple reasons why you would be in bed or not focused on standing.. I can put the watch on at 11pm and close 2/3 things.. But I cant get the "medal" because I didnt stand for 12 hours.. Even sick, I manag to squeeze in 30 minutes of spirited walking and calisthenics.. Telling me I didn't achieve the full 3 because I was laying down and SLEEPING for most of the day is rather ********..
Just like you not being able to adjust the workout ring to MORE than 30 minutes.
Move along.
I have requested that Apple add a 'special' participation trophy if you can just manage to get out of bed for more than 1 hour a day.
I bet this would be unfathomable to you.
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Good god, did you put your watch on your dog?
If you’re sleeping past noon, you were probably active and awake past midnight, so those standing hours would count in addition to the hours after noon. I work from 5pm til 3am, and sleep until after noon, but I still get my standing hours in.
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I kind of agree with what you’re saying here. Someone could compete in an Olympic triathalon for 5 hours but not close their blue ring, which is kind of a flaw. I can work an entire 9 hour shift on my feet and then go home and watch tv on the couch and not close my blue ring. I feel like 8 hours of not sitting once should close the ring.
No not really when the whole part of the exercise it meant to make you stand more THROUGHOUT the day... Your 30 mins of being active is another ring... Keep on telling yourself it's a crappy system, but it works..
In the spirit of this conversation I think the thread should have known this was your intention and done it for you.