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My Apple Watch brand new series eight, flashes green screen when I meet my move goal. The usually red circle and vibration is accompanied by flashing green screen. Does not seem right.
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Apple Watch Series 8
That is normal:
watch flashes green after reaching fitness goal
When you close a ring in the Fitness app, an animation appears to celebrate the accomplishment.
If you do not wish to see this, open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. Tap on My Watch (at the bottom) > Activity and toggle Goal Completions off. This should stop that from appearing.
More information on how the Activity app handles notifications is available here: Use the Activity app on your Apple Watch - Apple Support
That is normal:
watch flashes green after reaching fitness goal
When you close a ring in the Fitness app, an animation appears to celebrate the accomplishment.
If you do not wish to see this, open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. Tap on My Watch (at the bottom) > Activity and toggle Goal Completions off. This should stop that from appearing.
More information on how the Activity app handles notifications is available here: Use the Activity app on your Apple Watch - Apple Support
I'm having the same issue, and it started with the last update. I was able to search online and found a temporary fix. If you disconnect your watch, restart it, and then connect it again, it'll be good for a couple weeks. I have a Series 7, 1-year old, and this never happened before the October update. It's definitely not normal.
I had the same issue, but restarting the watch has (temporarily, at least) fixed it. It's worth giving that a try.
I'm having the same issue, and it is not the normal animation as the other poster suggested.
The entire screen flickers green while the animation is running. It's never done it before, and I suspect it's a bug in the latest WatchOS 9 update. If so, hopefully will get fixed in a patch.
This is what my Apple Watch 8 does: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-watch-7-flashes-green-with-activity-ring-animation.2363767/?post=31588436#post-31588436
I've recently started to have this issue as well. Restarting the watch did get it to go back to normal; however eventually it will do it again.
Exactly same issue here when there’s a “move goal” animation the screen flickers green. Tried to raise with support and zero help, reported it as a bug. From my experience it takes multiple updates until things like this get repaired as the tech team pretend to listen to you but they don’t really
Same thing here. First it was a black screen with an animation. Now it flashes green and black in an in random way, irregular and also the same animation. As it broken or on error.
so NOT normal.
This just started happening with my Apple Watch 7 yesterday. The flickering is certainly not a normal feature. Glad others are also seeing this because seems like must be a bug and not just my watch.
My Apple Watch 6 has just started doing the same thing over the last week.
Only does it when my move rings close.
I’m just installing the new update that’s come through today so hoping that sorts it and it was a glitch from the previous update 🤞🏼
Agree with the others. What makes it obviously wrong. It is not aesthetically pleasing, it is like a radio shack coco2 response. No way Apple would do this. Trying to understand if this hardware or software issue
I started seeing this after a couple of weeks with the new watch; many of the animations were initially fine. I just tried restarting, but obviously I have to wait a few hours until I meet my goals before I can see the animation. Has anyone else had things go back to normal after a reboot?
This is definitely not a feature. It is a bug.
Not normal. I've had 3 models and this hasn't happened ever. Must be a bug
I’m having the same issue with Apple Watch Series 8. Just bought this. It was running great with the sparkly circle animation and now since the update, the whole screen flashes green. Will there be an update to the iOS for the Watch? If so, when?
It is satisfying to see the animation after completing a workout circle; however, it is frustrating to see this glitch.
Apple Watch screen flashing green
