Limited edition challenges

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I think they listened to us because they added two new badges, now they need to add 2 more to make up for removing the Chinese new years badge during the BEST year to have it!

The meditation badge was absurdly easy but the 5K running badge was a surprising challenge. It was really only a challenge because I had hypoxia for 3 weeks so just getting over it made it a bit difficult to run a 5k after not running one for a few months haha. I want more actual challenges to these badges in the future instead of simple things like “close your rings 7 days in a row” or “meet YOUR activity goal for 14 days”…I woke up at 5am, an hour earlier than normal for work so I could get this done to begin my day 😁.

Now we just need more actual challenges like this added to make up for the 3 removed badges. They should have brought back the Mother’s Day badge this year or had a “D-Day Anniversary” badge. That would’ve been a better reason for the 5k run challenge.

jacqmac2017 wrote:

Will be checking out that section on a regular basis from now on. :-)

I just set up a google notification with keywords: apple watch limited edition. Macrumors tends to publish a news article announcing limited edition challenges a week or so in advance. If this works like I think it will, I should get an email every time they publish a new story. Then I can set up an iCal reminder for myself. A little convoluted…but I’m not exactly the most detail-oriented person in the world, so I can really use all the automated heads-up I can get!! 😁

I noticed that, too but not on my Watch. I saw it under the "Go for It" section of the Fitness app on my iPhone. It didn't appear greyed out in the Limited Edition Challenges but it showed up once I completed the challenge. Will be checking out that section on a regular basis from now on. :-)

macomonaco wrote:

I would consider this as „working as designed“:

Hi @macomonaco,

Agreed! (Or, at least, I agree the timing agrees with what Mac Rumors reported. 😉)

Tbh, I posted those initially in response to a forum member issue. And then reposted b/c they seemed to be relevant to a different user Q. Not sure if they actually helped anyone, but I try.

Can I ask you if you have notifications toggled on for Lmtd Ed Challenges? If so, are you receiving them?? This is one feature that very much isn’t working as designed for me.

Here is the link to a different post where I described the problem. Limited edition challenges - Apple Community In brief, after researching online for parallel examples (found a few, but no known solution) and asking around in this forum (no responses), I thought stumbled on a solution through blind troubleshooting (by blind, I mean testing rare circumstances that I can’t independently trigger).

I was very happy. Turns out, I congratulated myself too soon (you’ll see a screenshot documenting that 🙄…🙄). Anyways, after posting that resolution tease, I enjoyed a brief honeymoon phase...then I updated to 10.5 last week. I think they’re broken again. I won’t know for sure until tomorrow when the LE notification is supposed to be sent but I have a bad feeling.

You see, I also have Goal Notifications toggled on, which aren’t super useful and wouldn’t otherwise be relevant, except I noticed that they actually serve as a convenient bellwether. They apparently broke at the same time my limited edition notifications broke. I just didn’t notice until I fixed them both at the same time.

Ever since the update, guess who’s not receiving goal notifications. (Me. 😕) And, I haven’t been able to get them to work again.

Anyways, it’d be helpful to know whether I’m an outlier.

Heads 🆙 => World 🧘‍♀️ Day Challenge (info for the upcoming limited edition badge on 2024.05.21)

Also, re: @javaheed:

Javaheed wrote:

@lukairure46 What version of ios are you on? This issue seems to have appeared after one of the recent ios 17 updates.

WatchOS 10.5 and 10.4, respectively, for the screenshots above captured today for the upcoming challenge (2024.05.19) and for previously referenced example (2024.04.27). In both cases, the official public (ie, not beta) version that was current at the time of collection.

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.

@lukairure46 What version of ios are you on? This issue seems to have appeared after one of the recent ios 17 updates.

Hi @javaheed,

These are screenshots from my watch on 2024.04.27 (~3 weeks ago). In this case, the placeholder badge and description became available to view two days before the Intl Dance Day Challenge.

Is this representative of the feature (logic flow) you think has changed?

I would propose the following preliminary test protocol : Check your badge list on 06.03 and 06.04.

Note: I appended a small version of the images for easy, yet space-conscientious, reference. You can view the original post, which includes images at actual size, here: Limited edition challenges - Apple Community.

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.

lukairure46 wrote:

There are notifications. You can set them up with other fitness app notifications. I’m not sure if anyone else already had them set up but stopped receiving them.

This happened to me. Actually, I stopped receiving them around a year ago, but just a few days ago I posted a question on this forum asking for help. I didn’t get a response and hardly any views, so I figured this meant I was an outlier.

Anyways, I think I ended up solving the issue for myself. I’m getting notifications from the fitness app again. I hadn’t even realized that all notifications from the fitness app had ceased. I only noticed that I wasn’t receiving the limited edition notifications. I had missed a few previous challenges and that was annoying. But after troubleshooting, I started receiving notifications about reaching daily goals.

According to a news report I saw announcing International Dance Day Challenge for this year, the badge is scheduled to be visible in the app today (04.27) (I posted screenshots in this thread this morning), and the notification is scheduled for tomorrow (04.28).

Tomorrow will be my first opportunity to test if I’m receiving limited edition challenge notifications from the fitness app. If I do, then I was planning to update my post with the solution just so there would a record…you know, for posterity. lol.

Then, by luck/coincidence, I saw the post from @hseth saying they had notifications set up but missing challenges. It wasn’t clear if they’re not receiving the notifications at all. That’s why I asked about that in my previous post. It’s still not clear to me if other ppl are having this issue. I don’t want to clog up this thread with irrelevant info about solving a problem only I seemed to have. But I can post about it here if I get feedback that it could help others…you know, in the present. 🙃

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There are notifications. You can set them up with other fitness app notifications. I’m not sure if anyone else already had them set up but stopped receiving them.

This happened to me. Actually, I stopped receiving them around a year ago, but just a few days ago I posted a question on this forum asking for help. I didn’t get a response and hardly any views, so I figured this meant I was an outlier.

Anyways, I think I ended up solving the issue for myself. I’m getting notifications from the fitness app again. I hadn’t even realized that all notifications from the fitness app had ceased. I only noticed that I wasn’t receiving the limited edition notifications. I had missed a few previous challenges and that was annoying. But after troubleshooting, I started receiving notifications about reaching daily goals.

According to a news report I saw announcing International Dance Day Challenge for this year, the badge is scheduled to be visible in the app today (04.27) (I posted screenshots in this thread this morning), and the notification is scheduled for tomorrow (04.28).

Tomorrow will be my first opportunity to test if I’m receiving limited edition challenge notifications from the fitness app. If I do, then I was planning to update my post with the solution just so there would a record…you know, for posterity. lol.

Then, by luck/coincidence, I saw the post from @hseth saying they had notifications set up but missing challenges. It wasn’t clear if they’re not receiving the notifications at all. That’s why I asked about that in my previous post. It’s still not clear to me if other ppl are having this issue. I don’t want to clog up this thread with irrelevant info about solving a problem only I seemed to have. But I can post about it here if I get feedback that it could help others…you know, in the present. 🙃

There was earth day but you had to do a single workout of 30min or greater

Yes I hope we get that one! I’ve got it all years! The alert abt the Earth day 24hs before! Hopefully we will get the alert for yoga’s

This is post is how I found out there was an Earth Day challenge this year - and I missed it for the same reason 😭.

It’s really rubbish there’s no notification that comes up on the watch or on our phones.