Have you ever started a workout on your Apple Watch but then forgot to officially end the exercise well past when you finished working out?
Often, this results in your Apple Watch logging minutes to your yellow exercise ring for any additional time you spend moving around thereafter.
So, if you want to be fair to yourself and your rings as much as possible, there is a little-known way to correct this and remove exercise minutes in the iPhone’s Health app.
Removing Exercise Minutes in the Health App
To remove extra logged minutes from your exercise ring, open the Health app on your iPhone. If you’re not familiar with the immense wealth of data here, you’ll definitely want tolearn more about using the Health appto find what’s useful to you.
Head to theBrowsetab at the bottom and typeExercise Minutesinto the search bar (you can also find it under theActivityhealth category). Now, scroll all the way to the bottom of the screen and tapShow All Data.
Here, you’re presented with a list of recent dates you accumulated exercise minutes according to your Apple Watch. Choose the date you want to edit.
This is where things get a bit weird. The Health app logs exercise as individual entries for each minute, so there is no way to directly adjust the total. Instead, swipe left on every minute you want to get rid of and tapDelete. If you want to remove five minutes of exercise for that day, you’ll swipe left on five one-minute entries in your Health data and hitDeleteeach time.
Check Your Apple Watch Exercise Ring for Updated Data
To verify that your exercise ring reflects the minutes you deleted, switch over to the Fitness app on your iPhone. If you’re editing exercise minutes for today, you may check the Activity app on your Apple Watch, but for any day in the past, you’ll need to use your iPhone.
Check your yellow exercise ring, and you should see that minutes and ring progress have adjusted according to whatever amount you deleted. Cheers tomeeting your health and wellness goalswith every minute you’ve actually earned!
Keep Your Activity Rings Accurate
That’s how you delete unwanted minutes on your exercise ring. Hopefully, you don’t have to do this too often because you remember to end your workouts on time, but for those all too familiar moments when life gets distracting, this is one way to stay accurate with logging your goals.
