I paused my Activity Rings for a week, but during that week I decided to extend the pause by one more day. Now I’ve discovered that on the day I made the change the pause didn’t work, and I’m at risk of losing all my achievements.
iOS 26.0, watchOS 26.0
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Original Title: Activity Rings Pause Bug
Apple Watch Series 8
So if the rings are unpausing the day you change the amount of pause days, I think that the watch may have thought of the pause change as you wanted to unpause that day and continue the pause after a while. Either way, it is still a bug. Have you tried force restarting?
Some things that may work could be:
Force restart both iPhone and Watch
Turn off Activity Tracking temporarily and turn it back on
If that doesn't work delete and re-install Activity/Fitness on your devices and re-install.
Hopefully that does the trick for you. :)
Thank you! The problem resolved itself — it was only a visual bug, and my achievements were preserved.
Activity rings pause bug on iOS 26.0 and watchOS 26.0
