Limited edition challenges

Sadly the logic behind the display of the limited Edition & Daily & Monthly challenge awards appears to have changed in one of the updates. Now the award is not displayed until the target has been reached, which means that unless you happen to know the day when the award is on and what the target is you will not see it unless you happen achieve the target by chance. To test this for yourself wait for the World Environment Day Challenge on 5th June and see if the award shows before you close your Stand Ring.

ChefDi wrote:

I didn’t receive the Unity challenge or the National Women’s Day challenge. Have the challenges been discontinued?

No one here in this user-to-user forum would know Apple's plans for the future. All we know is exactly what you know: Apple didn't offer those Limited Challenges this year.

You can let Apple know they're important to you here:

Product Feedback - Apple

I have reported a “Problem” to Apple via their feedback and support portal:

Product Feedback - Apple

And I kindly suggest to do the same. The more people report this issue, the more likely it will be to get these limited edition challenges back again.

I have written:

Today is February 16, 2024, and I haven’t received the limited edition Chinese Lunar New Year Challenge 2024 (Year of the Dragon) or the Unity Challenge on the Apple Watch this February, which have been offered in previous years.

Only the Heart Month Challenge 2024 was active on February 14, which I successfully completed.

Apparently some other Apple customers have also noticed this problem, see here:

Limited edition challenges - Apple Community

Apple Watch limited edition challenge for… - Apple Community

Weder Mond Neujahr noch Unity für 2024 we… - Apple Community

I'm also not sure why Apple doesn't announce that these challenges will be discontinued or when and where they will be available.

I'm really hoping for an update, and to get these very important challenges back from Apple next year. Thanks!

It happened to me twice. I unpaired and paired again my Apple Watch and it was fixed.

Luna New Year doesn’t start until Feb 10 this year (2024). The last two Lunar New Year challenges started on the first day of the Lunar New Year January 22, 2023 for the Rabbit and February 1, 2022 for the Tiger.

Force starting your phone and watch at the same time is for when your awards have disappeared or some are missing that you have already completed and received. No one has received the Lunar New Year 2024 limited edition challenge as of today

There does seem to be an intermittent glitch in which some category of awards, including the limited edition, will disappear and come back. This glitch has been around for a few years, and it happened to me as recently as earlier today, though the limited edition awards reappeared. But I am sad that none of the ones I expected after ring in the new year has shown up, especially the dragon lunar new year one

Force start your phone and watch at the same time and they will come back.

You now click a link to access within the app.

They actually did do the "Ring in the New Year" one from 1/1 to 1/7 that you had to close all 3 rings all 7 days to start 2024, but that was the last one they did.

Folks, let us send a constructive, clear feedback to Apple that we really miss, but still want these Limited Edition Challenges. The more people send a feedback, the more likely we might get back these Challenges.

You can do it here - it is really easy:

Product Feedback - Apple

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I had the same behavior. And I would consider this as „working as designed“: You can see the forthcoming challenge and the „teaser badge“, which you can earn, if you complete the exercise on that day.

looks like they have released a heart challenge for February

I just went to the Apple Fitness + feedback page and complained about not having these two challenges. Maybe if more people would do the same, they might bring it back. I asked them to do that and also credit me for the challenges because I did the workout requirements for these challenges for the past years. :-)

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Some Limited Edition Challenges are certainly country specific. E.g. the Veterans Day Challenge in the USA.

However, we had the International Women's Day Challenge for at leat five years in Germany. And in most other countries. But now, just dropped without a word? This is not acceptable. For many reasons...

Folks, please send your friendly but clear feedback to Apple via this form:

Feedback - Watch - Apple