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I have received none of mine back. Funny the new Veterans Day shows up in the activity app on the phone but got no notification on the watch.
 
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i did NOT receive a notification on my watch for the upcoming Veterans Day Challenge, i simply checked the AWARDS tab in the Activity app as i do every morning in hopes of seeing my limited edition achievements restored and i noticed the new upcoming Nov 11 Veterans Day challenge, is there a toggle i need to enable somewhere on the iPhone to receive notifications for upcoming special limited edition challenges on my apple watch? Maybe i have that disabled
 
to be honest i did NOT receive a notification on my watch, i simply checked the AWARDS tab in the Activity app as i do everyday in hopes of seeing my limited edition achievements restored and i noticed the new upcoming Veterans Day challenge, is there a toggle i need to enable somewhere on the iPhone to receive the upcoming special limited edition challenge on my apple watch?
No, that’s usually how it works. I’ll see it in my Awards tab a day or two before I get the notification.
 
i did NOT receive a notification on my watch for the upcoming Veterans Day Challenge, i simply checked the AWARDS tab in the Activity app as i do every morning in hopes of seeing my limited edition achievements restored and i noticed the new upcoming Nov 11 Veterans Day challenge, is there a toggle i need to enable somewhere on the iPhone to receive notifications for upcoming special limited edition challenges on my apple watch? Maybe i have that disabled
Do you have the Activity Daily Coaching notification turned on? That might be where these notifications come from.
 
Do you have the Activity Daily Coaching notification turned on? That might be where these notifications come from.
No, I have daily coaching disabled. Can’t stand these useless constant daily notifications. I have stand reminders disabled as well

I actually found the “Special Challenges” toggle, See attachment below
 

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What’s funny and sad at the same time is that I had the “7 Workout week” achievement completed before this achievements screw up happened and now somehow it is not longer complete as if I never completed the 7 Workout week challenge, what the..
 
So I just finished an 11 minute workout for the Veterans Day special challlenge and have not received the special edition achievement yet, Should we expect to be a receiving delay here as well? (2-3 days)
Apple seriously screwed this achievement system up with iOS 12
None of my previously finished limited edition achievements from
Prior years were recovered as of today by the way
 
So I just finished an 11 minute workout for the Veterans Day special challlenge and have not received the special edition achievement yet, Should we expect to be a receiving delay here as well? (2-3 days)
Apple seriously screwed this achievement system up with iOS 12
None of my previously finished limited edition achievements from
Prior years were recovered as of today by the way
I would imagine it’ll be behind a couple of days as well. All of my other badges have been.
 
Nothing on my end in the activity app. I did a 30min strength workout. Here’s to expecting the award to show up Tuesday or so, along the lines of all other delays.
 
So I just finished an 11 minute workout for the Veterans Day special challlenge and have not received the special edition achievement yet, Should we expect to be a receiving delay here as well? (2-3 days)
Apple seriously screwed this achievement system up with iOS 12
None of my previously finished limited edition achievements from
Prior years were recovered as of today by the way

Same. I did get the notification on my watch that I got the Veterans Day badge, but nothing is showing up in the App yet. However, my 7-workout week did finally just update (3 days later), so maybe there's hope.
 
Same. I did get the notification on my watch that I got the Veterans Day badge, but nothing is showing up in the App yet. However, my 7-workout week did finally just update (3 days later), so maybe there's hope.

When you say notification, did you mean the one that came two days ago that the badge was available or notification as in you completed it today?
 
Make sure everyone is running 5.1.1 and 12.1 to see all past limited badges and Today's Veteran badge. No problems with multiple watches in my household with those SW versions.
 
You received it today? Did you need to restart your device or anything like that?
What type of an 11 minute workout did you complete?

I did 30 minutes on the elliptical. Popped up on the watch as soon as I completed the exercise as well as others for the weekly activities. Nothing showed on the iPhone so I just restarted both the Watch and iPhone and there they were.
 
I just did a hard reset and my Veteran's Day achievement badge appeared.

All my other achievements that were missing appeared when I updated to 12.1
 
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Several days ago I received a notification for the then upcoming Veteran's Day achievement badge. I completed multiple workouts that should qualify me for the Veteran's Day achievement badge but it is grayed out in my achievements. Running 5.1.1 and 12.1
 
Several days ago I received a notification for the then upcoming Veteran's Day achievement badge. I completed multiple workouts that should qualify me for the Veteran's Day achievement badge but it is grayed out in my achievements. Running 5.1.1 and 12.1
Mine is still greyed out too, although I received notification on my Watch that it was completed. Just like the other badges, Apple is a couple of days behind for a lot of us, so give it until Tuesday or so and they'll show up.
 
Make sure everyone is running 5.1.1 and 12.1 to see all past limited badges and Today's Veteran badge. No problems with multiple watches in my household with those SW versions.
iOS 12.1 and watchOS 5.1.1 here and no past badges except women’s day this year. All others still missing. I earned the Veterans Day today got the notif on watch. Nothing showing in activity as earned yet.
 
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Several days ago I received a notification for the then upcoming Veteran's Day achievement badge. I completed multiple workouts that should qualify me for the Veteran's Day achievement badge but it is grayed out in my achievements. Running 5.1.1 and 12.1
I received the notification on the watch for the achievement today, but it's not showing up on my iPhone in the app.
 
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I was pretty sure I got a notification of getting the achievement on the watch but wasn't 100% sure, It buzzed mid workout and I didn't check. I just happened to look and it's there so maybe in the next few days it will move over to the phone:)
 
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I was pretty sure I got a notification of getting the achievement on the watch but wasn't 100% sure, It buzzed mid workout and I didn't check. I just happened to look and it's there so maybe in the next few days it will move over to the phone:)
The badge notification won’t be delivered until after the workout ends.
I’m still waiting on my October monthly challenge achievement which will likely never come...
I would call Apple, I believe the rest of us got our October badges...
 
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