Understand and Excel at Apple Watch Competitions

As the name suggests itself, it is something that is going to enhance your competitive spirit. To be precise, the Apple watch competition can be referred to as a weekly competition that can be played between you and someone you can share your weekly activities with. As you do your activities, you get a particular score. At the end of the week whoever is able to score more, is able to come up with the win. 

This is a feature in watchOS 5 and unless you have updated your operating system, you wouldn’t be able to get this feature. But it is a really good thing to do when you are bored unless competition doesn’t motivate you to do better and close your rings. 

Starting the competition

Before anything else, you would have to start the competition on your watchOS 5. You will first be required to install the activity app on your iPhone. Once you’re done with it, open the application. There’s a sharing tab available there which will be somewhere around the bottom right. You will have to add the “+” button on the top-right of the screen. You have to look for the people you want to compete with and send the invitation. Now it is on your friends if they are able to accept your competition or not. If they do accept the invitation, those people are going to show up on the Activity app. The golden complete button has to be pressed and the competition is officially on. Can your friend surpass you or bow down in defeat? It will be exciting. 

Calculations

You might be thinking about how the whole calculation work is possible through the Apple Watch. It can be a bit difficult to understand from the very beginning. It is about closing the rings from time to time. If you are able to close one ring, you are able to score 100 points. But if you close all three of the rings, you are able to score 300 points. When you put the extra work into the activities that you are supposed to do, you can add up points to 200{6d08995d7656033f9f21b60e1e0a2a92f283c7162b87d8a6b83105b7aa5da246}. So you can score 600 points rather than just 300 on completion of the rings. By the end of the week, you can score up to 2100 points. If you can put up the work and get all the 200{6d08995d7656033f9f21b60e1e0a2a92f283c7162b87d8a6b83105b7aa5da246} on your rings, you score about 4200 points. 

Things considered in Apple Watch Competition

There are basically three different rings which mean three different sorts of activities that you have to do. Let’s discuss them one by one:- 

1. Move ring

The first ring is the moving ring. Moving around is one of the most routine things that you do. But how far? That’s where the competition becomes interesting. When you are not competing, you are generally looking for smaller goals. You are looking to move very little and trying to get those shortcuts. If you want to win, you have to move as much as possible. You can just go out for a morning and evening walk and that’s going to help immensely in the competition. 

2. Exercise ring

There is no intelligence that you can put in the exercise ring to get ahead of your opponents. The task is simple, you just have to be disciplined. The more you exercise, the more points you get. Now exercise doesn’t work as simple as moving around. Now when you move around, you can just walk straight as much as possible and it won’t make you lose your energy and your steps will still get counted in the same manner as climbing up a hill. But if you’re not regularly doing exercises, you wouldn’t be able to last long here. So if you want to do well in the exercise ring, make sure you’re putting in the work on a consistent basis rather than once in a blue moon. 

3. Stand ring

The stand ring is not going to bring you many points. But if you can stand more than your opponent, this might be the difference between winning and losing. Each hour that you stand, you get 8 points for it. If you stand for about 10 hours a day, you will get 80 points straightway. If you put in additional work for standing up, you will keep on getting more and more points. Try to look if your opponents are giving this ring a try or not. If they aren’t, you surely have to step up here if you want to end up on the winning side of things. 

Ending the competition

If you think you will get an option to quit the competition midway, it is not possible since there’s no particular option available as such. You can rather look to mute your notifications so that you are not able to be in touch with the competition. Else, you can just hide your activity. 

FAQs

Q1: Is the Apple Watch competition any interesting? 

Yes, it is very interesting. Especially in the testing times, we are living in, you get away to distract yourself. You can immerse yourself fully into the competition. 

Q2: How to know if I have won an Apple Watch competition? 

The competition can run for a week. You can check the points of your opponent after the week and compare it with yourself. You will be able to know if you have won the competition or have lost it. 

Q3: Can I get the Apple Watch competition in older operating systems as well? 

No, you wouldn’t be able to get this feature on the older OS. You will be required to install watchOS 5 so that you can get this feature on your Apple Watch. 

So if you are interested in doing this, you can definitely start competing with some of your friends. But remember the tips that we have discussed here. It is about winning at the end of the day and you have to end up on the winning side one way or the other!