How to change your Move, Stand & Exercise Goals on Apple Watch (or for Fitness+)
It’s that time of the year when we think about setting goals for ourselves – so what better time than now to change your Activity Rings on your Apple Watch? Finding it a struggle to fill your rings each day? Then maybe reduce the target slightly to make it more achievable. Or perhaps if you’re smashing them by lunchtime you might want to make it slightly more challenging. This #QuickTips video will show you exactly how to do that.
These goals will also appear during your workouts on Apple Fitness+ so it’s crucial that they’re both motivating and yet still achievable. #CloseYourRings
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Here’s a really quick video on how to change your Move, your Exercise, and your Stand goals on your Apple Watch and your iPhone. And while you’re here, if you like the video, please press like below, and maybe even subscribe to my channel. There are hundreds of iPad and iPhone quick tip videos, and you’ll get all new ones each week if you subscribe.
So, you might well think that you can go onto the Fitness app on your iPhone, and you can tap onto the rings, and there should be a section to change them somewhere, shouldn’t there? Well, weirdly, there’s not, and it’s quite annoying. But the only way to change the goals for your Move, Exercise, and Stand rings are to put your iPhone to one side and to bring out your Apple Watch.
On the Apple Watch, you’re going to go onto the app launcher screen, and you’re going to choose the Activity app. Here, you can see your rings front and center on the watch, and if you want to scroll down by using your finger or the Digital Crown, you’ll then see each of them broken down: Move, Exercise, and Stand. At the very bottom, you can get a weekly update, or you can choose to change your goals.
On the Change Goals screen, you can then press the plus or minus buttons to increase all three of those rings. It used to be you could only change the Activity ring, but now, with watchOS 7 and iOS 14, you can change all of them. So, use the plus or minus button to change the amount of calories you want to burn each day as part of your Activity goal, and then press next at the bottom to move on to the Exercise ring. From here, you can increase or decrease the amount of exercise you want to set as your target each day. And you guessed it, if you press next again, you can then go and change your Stand hours. Now, it looks like 12 is the maximum you can have, but you can reduce that number if you need to, to make it something that’s adaptable for you.
It’s well worth customizing these three goals to better match your needs and your ambitions for this year, particularly if perhaps you’re struggling to meet some of those rings normally. Make them more achievable, and then gradually week on week, you can increase them ever so slightly. Speaking of which, on a Monday morning, your watch will give you a notification, and it will ask you if you want to keep your Move goal to what it was the week before, or if you want to increase it slightly. And it will give you a really handy graph of how many days you’ve met that goal in the past week. It’s a nice little touch and it will really help you get the most out of your Apple Watch, and maybe even Fitness+ as well.
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