Exercise Ring Animation Star?

Back in July I posted that I thought my green exercise ring animation had once appeared as a triangle. Well, two weeks ago, my green exercise ring animation appeared - and I'm certain of this - as a five-pointed star. I had just completed a perfect exercise week. Since I had updated to WatchOS 8.0 a few days prior to that, I thought it was the new perfect exercise week animation. But, no luck this past week (a week later). The star appeared at the end of my 93rd perfect exercise week, so therefore, not my 100th. Later that day, my move and rainbow rings were circles, as usual, so it was only the exercise animation. It was not a new exercise record. It was not related to the September exercise minutes challenge; I did not earn that one -- I was shy of the minutes goal. Anyone seen a star animation, or know why it happens?

Apple Watch Series 5, watchOS 8

Posted on Oct 5, 2021 10:30 AM

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Nov 2, 2021 12:42 PM in response to Community User

Been paying closer attention and have learned how to take a screen shot on the Apple Watch. There are indeed special animations. I captured the star for a seven-workout week and a thicker green ring for a perfect week of exercise, inserted below. I got a thicker red ring for setting a new move goal, but missed the screen shot. My wife got a crazy explosion for reaching her October challenge, but missed the screen shot. Still wonder if there's a gallery of animations somewhere!





Oct 6, 2021 10:21 AM in response to SkokieCatDad

Hello there SkokieCatDad,


Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. We understand that you have not been seeing the expected animations when closing your rings with Apple Watch. This is a really nice feature of Apple Watch and we will be glad to assist.


Let's try a restart to see if that helps:


How to restart your Apple Watch


Next, try unpairing and re-pairing your Apple Watch:


Unpair and erase your Apple Watch


Cheers.

Oct 6, 2021 11:05 AM in response to Sparks0829

Thank you for your suggestions, but, sorry, no, how on earth could restarting or erasing my Apple Watch help? My exercise ring animation has been a perfect circle 660 times, and a perfect five-pointed star once. Apparently, so far, I am the only human being on the planet who has seen an exercise ring animation that is not circular? Hopefully, eventually, someone else will confirm and possibly explain. I believe this may actually fall under the technical category of "Easter Egg".

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