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How to Challenge Friends and Win Fitness Awards on Apple Watch

    The Apple Watch has a lot of great options to keep you motivated so you can reach your fitness goals. While there’s plenty of fun things you can setup on your own, kicking off a challenge with your friends takes it to another level.

    Add fuel to your competitive fire by challenging one of your friends on your Apple Watch. The fun part – after a challenge you can win an award and add it to your collection. Continue with the guide on this page to get a challenge going.

    How does a challenge work

    • The Apple Watch lets you initiative a seven-day competition with your friends via an invitation from either your Apple Watch or the app on your iPhone.
    • You and your friends earn points by completing and filling up your Activity rings (your Move, Workout, and Stand rings).
    • You get a point for each percent that you add to your ring during each day of the competition.
    • You can reach a total of up to 600 points per day, 4,200 per the competition week.
    • The friend with the most points at the end of the seven-day period wins the competition and gets an award!
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    How to challenge a friend on the Apple Watch

    1. From the watch’s home screen, open the Activity app, or go to your main menu and select the Activity app.
    2. Swipe until you’re on the Sharing screen (this is the screen with your list of friends.
    3. Tap a friend’s name. 
    4. Swipe down and then tap Compete.
    5. Tap Invite [NAME OF CONTACT].
    6. Wait for your friend to accept the invite. You’ll be notified when this happens.
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    How to challenge a friend from the iPhone

    1. From the iPhone, navigate to and open the Fitness app.
    2. Tap the Sharing tab (at the bottom of the screen).
    3. Tap the name of the friend you want to compete with.
    4. Tap Compete with [NAME OF CONTACT].
    5. Tap Invite [NAME OF CONTACT] to confirm. 
    6. Wait for your friend to accept the invite. You’ll be notified when this happens.

    How to view awards

    After you complete and win a competition with your friend, you’ll get an award notification once the time period is up.

    If you want to go check out your award again at a later time or see how you’re stacking up after multiple competitions, you can find all this right on your watch.

    View awards from the Apple Watch

    1. From the watch’s home screen, open the Activity app, or go to your main menu and select the Activity app.
    2. Swipe left twice to view the Awards screen.
    3. Swipe to see your awards.
    4. Tap an award to see details.

    View awards from the iPhone

    1. From the iPhone, navigate to and open the Fitness app.
    2. Tap the Summary tab
    3. Swipe to see Awards (at the bottom of the screen).
    4. Tap an award to see details.

    What data is shared with friends

    If you’re curious about the data that’s shared with your friends, check out our guide: What Does Apple Watch Activity Sharing Show My Friends