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Exercise minutes on Apple Watch series 1

The exercise minutes defaulted to 10 minutes a day one morning instead of the regular 30 automatically. Is there anyway to change it to 30? Thanks!

Posted on Oct 12, 2021 12:57 PM

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Posted on Oct 12, 2021 1:19 PM

For a series 1 watch (with watchOS 6.3 or less), the Exercise goal should be "locked" to 30 minutes.


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


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


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Oct 12, 2021 1:19 PM in response to Exercise_mins_apple_watch_1

For a series 1 watch (with watchOS 6.3 or less), the Exercise goal should be "locked" to 30 minutes.


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


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


Exercise minutes on Apple Watch series 1

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