National Parks Apple Watch Activity Challenge Launching August 24

[MacRumors]

Apple will host its annual National Parks Apple Watch activity challenge on Sunday, August 24. The event is designed to celebrate national parks across the United States.

Apple Watch owners can earn an Apple Watch activity award by doing a workout that lasts for 20 minutes or more on August 24, 2025.

Like all of the Apple Watch activity challenges, earning the award will provide users with animated stickers that can be used in the Messages app.

Along with a new Apple Watch challenge, Apple typically offers other national parks-themed content in August, including an Apple Pay donation program, Apple TV+ content, Apple Music songs, books, podcasts, and more.

Article Link: National Parks Apple Watch Activity Challenge Launching August 24

 

[vertsix]

Dang it! Sundays are my rest days!

Time to squeeze another swim that day I guess.

 

[firstcitazen]

Excited about this!

 

[hanschien]

Dang it! Sundays are my rest days!

Time to squeeze another swim that day I guess.

Just do a 20 minute walk workout.

 

[trhoffmann]

Dang it! Sundays are my rest days!

Time to squeeze another swim that day I guess.

I don't give up my rest day for anything.

 

[tzm41]

Protect our national parks and other public lands!

 

[eifelbube]

Apple will host its annual National Parks Apple Watch activity challenge on Sunday, August 24. The event is designed to celebrate national parks across the United States.

Apple Watch owners can earn an Apple Watch activity award by doing a workout that lasts for 20 minutes or more on August 24, 2025.

Like all of the Apple Watch activity challenges, earning the award will provide users with animated stickers that can be used in the Messages app.

Along with a new Apple Watch challenge, Apple typically offers other national parks-themed content in August, including an Apple Pay donation program, Apple TV+ content, Apple Music songs, books, podcasts, and more.

Article Link: National Parks Apple Watch Activity Challenge Launching August 24

How exactly do the National Parks benefit from an Apple Watch wearer walking 20 minutes around a city park, a forest trail, or a bike ride? I wished Apple would require both for awarding the Aug 24th sticker: an activity AND a donation to the National Parks system.

 

[yagmot]

Will one of the activities be finding a national park that still has employees, or perhaps one that hasn't been turned over to logging and oil companies?

 

[psxp]

Hey Apple, we have National and Provincial parks in Canada as well.. 👋🏽

 

[svish]

Nice animated stickers. Would have been nice if there was a way to complete the challenge and collect the award for users outside US.

 

[schappim]

But it is raining...

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Protect our national parks and other public lands!

True. They should however make it more affordable to use and stay at them. Some might argue it's not too expensive, but they are publicly owned lands, and then people have to pay fees to stay at them, sometimes tens of dollars per night. They can give a trillion to the military, they should do better for the little guy.

 

[Nada Ting]

Ok, they give you a cartoon gif. Then what?

 

[WarmWinterHat]

I don't give up my rest day for anything.

Rest days don't mean doing nothing. I still get <10k steps on off-days, and work around the garden/property, just don't do a structured workout. a 20-min recorded walk would be fine, or a light bike ride.

We typically hike on Sundays.

 

[Grayburn]

Hey Apple, we have National and Provincial parks in Canada as well.. 👋🏽

Nice animated stickers. Would have been nice if there was a way to complete the challenge and collect the award for users outside US.

It's usually world wide, hopefully it still is and MacRumours are wrong in saying US only.

 

[orbital~debris]

Hey Apple, we have National and Provincial parks in Canada as well.. 👋🏽

And we have national parks in Great Britain 👋
Very lovely and beautiful they are, too.

I say Great Britain (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Wales and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England) because I just looked it up and there are no national parks in Northern Ireland, so saying UK wouldn’t be accurate.