How to Change Fitness Goals on Apple Watch

Activity tracking is one of the most useful features of the Apple Watch that lets you meet your fitness goals. You can set daily activity goals,add workouts manually, and your Apple Watch will encourage you to close your fitness rings and let you know when you reach them. That said, as time progresses, your old goals might not align with your fitness journey. In such scenarios, you can change activity goals on your Apple Watch. Since good sleep is paramount to good health, don’t forget totrack sleep on your Apple Watchas well. That said, in this step-by-step guide, we will tell you how to change your move, exercise, stand, and calorie goals on your Apple Watch.

How to Change Activity Goals on Your Apple Watch

Note: The below steps work for watchOS 10, the latest Apple Watch software.

How to Change Fitness Goals on an iPhone

In addition to your Apple Watch, you can also change your activity goals on an iPhone using the Fitness app. Doing this will update the activity goals on your paired Apple Watch. Here’s how to do it:

How to Disable Apple Watch Activity Notifications

When you complete a goal, your Apple Watch sends you a notification. It gives suggestions on how to achieve your goals and encourages you to close your activity rings. Although these notifications are helpful, sometimes they can get annoying, and you might want to turn them off. You can disable Apple Watch Activity Notifications from the Watch app on your iPhone. Here’s how you do it:

Frequently Asked Questions

The three colorful rings on an Apple Watch represent various Fitness Goals. TheRed Ring is the Move Goalthat displays how many active calories you have burnt so far. Active calories are the ones that you burn by moving around, standing, climbing stairs, exercising, and the like.TheGreen Ring is the Exercise Goalthat indicates how many minutes of brisk activity you’ve done in a day. By default, the Exercise Goal is set to 30 minutes.Lastly, theBlue Ring is the Stand Goalwhich shows the hours for which you’ve stood up and walked for at least 1 minute. For someone who’s using a wheelchair, the Stand ring changes to Roll ring, showing hours in which, you’ve pushed around for at least 1 minute.

Open theActivity app, swipe up, and tap on the-+ icon. Then, theMinus (-)orPlus (+)icon to change your Move Goal on Apple Watch.

If you can’t change the Exercise goal on your Apple Watch, make sure you’ve got an Apple Watch Series 3 or later with the latest stable software version. Apple introduced the ability to change Exercise and Stand goals with the launch of watchOS 7, back in 2020. Until then, you could only change your Move goal. So, to edit Exercise goals on your Apple Watch, you need an Apple Watch Series 3 or newer models with watchOS 7 or later versions. It clearly means you cannot change Exercise and Stand goals on Apple Watch Series 1 & Series 2 or iWatch running watchOS 6 or older.

Apple Watch and iPhone has an in-built step counter but there’s no way to set or change step goal. Also, you can’t change any Activity goal on Apple Watch or iPhone in a way that lets you set or change to 10k steps on Apple Watch using the built-in mechanism. That said, you can view your daily steps on an Apple Watch or iPhone.On an Apple Watch,open theActivity appand scroll down all the way to the bottom to see your daily step count.On an iPhone,open theFitness appand you can see your daily steps taken and distance covered. You can also head to theHealth app > Summary > Steps.If you want to see steps count on your Apple Watch Face or iPhone widgets, you can use a third-party app like StepsApp (download for free).

Open theFitness appon your iPhone, tap theActivitysection, and choose theChange Goalsoption at the bottom to modify your Apple Watch goals on your iPhone.

Head to theFitness app > Activity section > Change Goalsand increase or decrease the number of active calories to change your Move Goals on your iPhone.

To change the calorie goal on Apple Watch, you need to update the Move Goal that denotes how many active calories you’ve burned so far. To burn more/less active calories in a day, you can update the Move Goal on your Apple Watch.

Kanika Gogia

Kanika has been a loyal iPhone user since 2014 and loves everything Apple. With a Master’s in Computer Applications, passion for technology, and over five years of experience in writing, she landed at Beebom as an Apple Ecosystem Writer. She specializes in writing How To’s, troubleshooting guides, App features, and roundups for Apple users to help them make the best use of their gadgets. When not writing, she loves to try out new recipes and enjoy some family time.

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