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If you like to work out with friends or find a little healthy competition between you and someone else important to achieving your fitness goals, the Fitness app can help you out. When you enable Sharing on your best iPhone and latest Apple Watch, other people can view your progress and compare and challenge themselves to work out as hard or harder than you. If you have iOS 15 on your iPhone and own a great Apple Watch, here's you can set up Activity Sharing in the Fitness app. In iOS 15, when you add a pal to your Sharing screen, you'll see all their Activity data from that day forward — and they'll get all of yours, too. But what exactly is Activity data? It breaks down into a few categories:
Whether you have an Apple Watch Series 7 or something older, your Apple Watch and the Fitness app will never share more personal and confidential data with your friends, like your heartbeat or any other Health data potentially collected by the watch. You also won't get a comprehensive date view of your friends' data the way you can scrutinize your own. You'll have a week's worth of activity data in the Sharing screen and can tap on your friend's profile for each of those individual days, but you won't be able to see a graph of their movement over time or any major trend line information. How to turn on Activity SharingTo turn on Activity Sharing with your pals, you'll need to use your iPhone and the Fitness app. Plus, you'll need to send a request to someone to share your Activity with.
Once you've done so, the contact you send the request to will need to accept it. Once that happens, you'll be able to view your friend's Activity in the Sharing tab. Want to brag to someone who doesn't have an Apple Watch? You can share your Activity rings as a stand-alone image from the Sharing screen. Here's how.
From here, you can share your Activity for that day via messages, email, or plenty of third-party apps. How to challenge someone in Activity SharingIf you want, you can challenge your friends and family to an activity challenge, which is a seven-day competition to see who can close their rings the best.
How to mute notifications in Activity SharingBy default, you'll get notifications from the Fitness app about how your friends are doing, but you can mute these notifications for a specific individual if you want.
If you want to go back to receiving notifications, you can follow these same steps above and select Unmute Notifications. How to hide your activity data in Activity SharingAre you feeling ashamed about your Activity data lately? Going on vacation and don't want your pals to know how many steps you're not walking? You can hide your activity data on a per-friend basis with a few quick steps.
If you want to go back to showing your Activity with said person, you can follow these same steps above, and select Stop hiding my Activity. How to remove a friend from Activity SharingIf you prefer not to continue sharing your Activity with a specific person, you can remove them from your Activity Sharing.
If you want to share your Activity with that person again, you'll need to add them to Activity Sharing again. You can close those rings with Apple Fitness+Now that you're sharing your Activity, it's time to make sure you work up a sweat and crush your competition. Check out Apple's video-led workout service Fitness+, and make sure you're closing your rings every day! Updated February 2022: Updated for iOS 15 and watchOS 8. Luke Filipowicz has been a writer at iMore, covering Apple for nearly a decade now. He writes a lot about Apple Watch and iPad but covers the iPhone and Mac as well. He often describes himself as an "Apple user on a budget" and firmly believes that great technology can be affordable if you know where to look. Luke also heads up the iMore Show — a weekly podcast focusing on Apple news, rumors, and products but likes to have some fun along the way. Luke knows he spends more time on Twitter than he probably should, so feel free to follow him or give him a shout on social media @LukeFilipowicz. How do I find friends on Apple Watch Fitness?Add friends. Open the Fitness app on your iPhone.. Tap the Sharing tab. If asked, tap Get Started.. Tap the Account icon then the Add button and type your friend's contact information. Or choose friends from the list of suggested contacts. ... . After you choose your friends, tap Send. Wait for your friends to accept the invite.. How do you add friends on Apple Watch?Add or remove a friend
Open the Activity app on your Apple Watch. Swipe left, then turn the Digital Crown to scroll to the bottom of the screen. To add a friend, tap Invite a Friend, then tap a friend. To remove a friend, tap a friend you're sharing with, then tap Remove Friend.
Why can't I see my friends on my Apple Watch?We understand you are unable to see your friend's activity on your Apple Watch and we'd like to help. If so, we suggest trying to remove one friend, and then invite them back to see if that resolves the issue. Open the Fitness app on your iPhone. Tap the Sharing tab, then tap your friend.
What happened to find people on Apple Watch?If you use the Find My app on iPhone, iPad, or Mac, then you have a similar tool for locating people with your Apple Watch. On watchOS 6 or later, the app is called Find People and on watchOS 5 or earlier, it's Find My Friends. But both apps do the same thing and can help you track down your loved ones.
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