Ring in the new year Challenge

See the "Get help" section in:

Earn Activity awards using your Apple Watch - Apple Support

It may take up to 9 days of completing the Activity Challenge to earn the award.

Also, the first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support

This sometimes "speeds up" the process.

Same thing happened to me! 23-31 closed all of my rings yet no award given. I received other awards during that time for 7 days of closing my exercise and move rings, etc so it isn’t an issue with my watch syncing properly.

The award says 7 days in January it does not list a start date.

When I got the notice from Apple it did not give a start date

My wife and I had the same issue. Can anyone help us understand why we didn’t receive the award? We completed Jan. 25-31.

Here is my calendar.

It didn't start until Jan 7th so you need to close your rings for another 3 days yet.

I received my award on the 7th.

https://www.imore.com/ring-new-year-activity-challenge-begin-january-7-2021

I got mine on the 7th as well.

On the 28th your stand ring isn't closed.

Oh geez 🤦🏻‍♀️ Mystery solved! I totally missed that lol

I ended up getting the Unity badge on February 1 despite needing to close the move ring seven days in a row in February.