Share your Action and compete with friends with your Apple Sentinel

You can share your Activity rings with friends and family unit for motivation. Encourage each other to close all three rings, compete to win the week, or let your trainer track your daily progress.

Starting time sharing

To share activity, you lot and your friends both need an Apple tree Watch. When your friends close their rings, cease workouts, or earn achievements, you lot get notifications about their progress.

Share an activity on iPhone

Add together friends

  1. Open the Fitness app on your iPhone.
  2. Tap the Sharing tab. If asked, tap Become Started.
  3. Tap the Business relationship icon so the Add button and blazon your friend's contact information. Or choose friends from the listing of suggested contacts. You can add up to 40 friends.
  4. After yous cull your friends, tap Send. Await for your friends to accept the invite.

You can also invite a friend directly from your Apple Watch: Open up the Action app, swipe to the Sharing screen, curlicue down, then tap Invite a Friend.

Take an invite

When someone invites y'all to share Activity or compete, a notification appears on your Apple Watch. Tap Have or Ignore. If you don't get a notification, you can accept from the Fitness app:

  1. Open up the Fitness app on your iPhone, then tap the Sharing tab.
  2. Tap the Account icon at the top of the screen.
  3. Tap Accept or Ignore.

Compete with friends

Y'all tin invite friends to compete in a seven-day competition. During the competition, you both earn points by filling your Action rings. You get a point for every percent that you add to your rings each mean solar day, and yous can earn up to 600 points a solar day. That's a max of 4,200 points for the week.

Whoever has the most points at the end of the competition wins. When the competition is complete, you lot earn an award.

Compete with a friend on iPhone

Challenge a friend from your Apple Watch

  1. Open up the Activity app on your Apple Sentinel.
  2. Swipe to the Sharing screen, so tap a friend.
  3. Scroll downwardly, then tap Compete.
  4. Tap Invite [name]. Wait for your friend to accept the invite.

Challenge a friend from your iPhone

  1. Open up the Fitness app on your iPhone, then tap the Sharing tab.
  2. Tap a friend.
  3. Tap Compete with [name].
  4. Tap Invite [proper name] to confirm. Wait for your friend to accept the invite.

Compete with a friend on Apple Watch

Motivate your friends

Subsequently yous outset sharing your action, you can bank check on your friends and help motivate them to meet their goals. When y'all become a notification about a friend'south activity, you can reply with preset smack talk or encouragement. And, when your friend closes all iii rings or earns sure achievements, you can challenge them to a competition direct from the notification.

Compare activity progress on Apple Watch

Check your friend's progress

  1. Open up the Activity app on your Apple Watch.
  2. Swipe to the Sharing screen.
  3. Tap your friend, then scroll to see their progress.

Stop sharing

If y'all want to stop sharing, you can mute notifications, hide your progress, or remove a friend.

Mute notifications on iPhone

Mute notifications

  1. Open the Fitness app on your iPhone.
  2. Tap the Sharing tab, then tap your friend.
  3. Tap Mute Notifications. To get notifications again, tap Unmute Notifications.

Hibernate your progress

  1. Open up the Fitness app on your iPhone.
  2. Tap the Sharing tab, then tap the friend that you desire to hide your activity from.
  3. Tap Hide my Action. Yous can still see your friend'south action, but they won't see your activeness. Y'all tin can't hide your activeness from a friend that you're competing with.
  4. To get-go sharing again, tap Testify my Activity.

Remove a friend

  1. Open up the Fettle app on your iPhone.
  2. Tap the Sharing tab, and then tap your friend.
  3. Tap Remove Friend. Later you remove a friend, they can't see your action, and you can't run across their activity. To start sharing once more, transport your friend a new invite.

Get assistance with Activity Sharing

If y'all see an mistake when you try to add a friend or send an invitation

Sign out of iCloud on your iPhone, so sign back in:

  1. Tap Settings > [your name].
  2. Coil down and tap Sign Out.
  3. Go back to Settings > Sign in to your [device], then enter your Apple tree ID and password.
  4. Tap Sign In.
  5. Try to add your friend or await for the invitation.

If you still tin can't add a friend, make sure that they have an Apple Watch and that you lot haven't added the maximum number of friends. You can add up to forty friends.

If you don't go updates most your friend'south activity

As long equally your iPhone can connect to the Internet and you're signed in to iCloud, yous can become updates about your friend'south activity each day. If your iPhone can't connect for multiple days or you sign out of iCloud, you might run into missing days.

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