If you’re more motivated to stick to a fitness plan when friends or family support you, Apple’s Fitness app has a great solution. You can share your activity with others using your iPhone and Apple Watch. That way, you can cheer each other on and keep each other accountable. Here’s how to share your fitness activity.
Set Your Apple Watch Activity Rings
One great feature of Apple’s iconic activity rings is that they are completely customizable. You can set up realistic targets for yourself, and so can each member of your family or friendship group. Then the aim is for you and your friends to do enough movement toclose your Apple Watch activity rings each day.
Once you’ve set your activity goals, you’re ready to add some friends and start challenging each other.
How to Add Friends and Accept Invitations
From theFitnessapp on your iPhone:
From theActivityapp on your Apple Watch (the three colored rings), just swipe once to theSharingscreen, scroll to theInvite a Friendoption, and tap the name of the person you want to add.
If you receive an invitation, you’ll get a notification on your Apple Watch or iPhone, which you’re able to choose to accept or ignore. If you’ve silenced your notifications, you can find any outstanding invitations in theSharingtab of the Fitness app on your iPhone.
How to Check Your Friends’ Progress
As long as you and your friends have connected your devices to the internet and you’re signed into iCloud, you can get regular updates about how well your friends are progressing towards their goals.
How to Motivate Your Friends
You’ll receive notifications about your friends’ progress if you have an Apple Watch. Help motivate them to meet their goals by sending them positive messages.
If you and your friends both have Apple Fitness+, competing with each other is a great way tomake the most of your Apple Fitness+ subscription. However, even if you don’t, you can still challenge each other to an activity competition. Each of you can earn points based on the percentage of your Activity Rings you close each day. The person with the most points at the end of the competition wins.
To keep it honest, learnhow to manually add workouts to Apple Fitnessand alsohow to remove unwanted exercise minutes from your iPhone and Apple Watch.
It’s easy to set up competitions from your Apple Watch:
To set up competitions on your iPhone:
How to Stop Sharing Activity
If you want to stop sharing, there are several options you may choose.
Mute Fitness Notifications
To simply mute notifications from your iPhone, follow these steps:
To resume, tapUnmute Notifications.
Hide Your Fitness Progress
To hide your progress from friends using your iPhone, follow these steps:
To start sharing again, tapShow my Activity. This function won’t work if you’re in a competition with that friend.
Remove a Friend
Here’s how to remove a friend from fitness sharing:
If you do this, you won’t be able to share your activity again until you send a new invitation. You can access these settings on your Apple Watch Activity app once you’ve tapped a friend’s name. You’ll get the same options: Mute, Hide my Activity, and Remove Friend.
Share Your Activity With Your Friends and Family for Extra Fitness Motivation
Sharing your activity each day or participating in a challenge with your friends and family can motivate all of you to push a little bit harder towards your fitness goals. The element of encouragement or competition Apple Fitness provides might just be the spark you need to kickstart your fitness routine.
