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How to delete an Apple Watch activity goal

I am not even sure how this happened, but my watch set a 5 minute activity goal for strength training. Now, it pings me when I am halfway to that goal and achieve that goal, but I consistently do way more than 5 minutes, so this is annoying to me. I cannot figure out how to delete this goal on the watch or in the Health or Fitness apps on my phone. Any advice on how to fix this issue?

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Posted on Mar 24, 2021 1:16 PM

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Posted on Mar 24, 2021 2:04 PM

Try this way;

Make sure you are wearing the watch;

On the workout type with the unwanted goal,tap on the 3 dots in the top right hand corner and tap on "Open",then start the workout and let it run for at least a minute, then tap on "End".

Scroll down to the bottom and tap on "Done".

The watch will return to "Open Goal"

There is a small chance you may have to repeat this for it to kick in.

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Mar 24, 2021 2:04 PM in response to HoopleDoo

Try this way;

Make sure you are wearing the watch;

On the workout type with the unwanted goal,tap on the 3 dots in the top right hand corner and tap on "Open",then start the workout and let it run for at least a minute, then tap on "End".

Scroll down to the bottom and tap on "Done".

The watch will return to "Open Goal"

There is a small chance you may have to repeat this for it to kick in.

Mar 24, 2021 1:19 PM in response to HoopleDoo

On the workout type tap on the 3 dots top right corner and tap on"Open" then start a workout and when you've finished tap on "End",Scroll down to the bottom and tap on "Done" the watch will remember your last setting and next time you do a workout it should be set to open goal,if not you may have to do it again as the watch enters whatever goal you set most and uses this as a default.



Here is a post from another forum that fixed the problem for this lady;

What I did to fix it was start an "OPEN GOAL" outdoor walk, and walked vigorously for about 1/2 an hour and just hit end when I was done. It still had a 20 min time set in yellow when I was finished. But the next day the 20 minutes had disappeared and OPEN GOAL was back in green, so I am assuming that is how you fix it. It must reset to the last thing you did overnight.


How to delete an Apple Watch activity goal

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