How to change Move, Exercise, and Stand goals on Apple Watch

Learn how to increase or decrease your daily Move goal calories, Exercise goal minutes, and Stand goal hours in the Activity and Fitness apps on your Apple Watch and iPhone so it’s more suitable for your current activity level.

When setting up Activity on your Apple Watch, you may have set a goal that is either too high or too low, which may not suit your current needs. You can easily adjust your activity goal to make it better align with your current activity level. Secondly, even if you don’t plan to change the goal today, it’s still important to know how to do it when the time comes.

Change your Move, Exercise, and Stand goals on Apple Watch

Open the Activity app on your Apple Watch.
Swipe up to go to the red Move Goal screen.
Tap the minus-plus icon from the bottom right.
Choose to change the goal only for today or every day.
Use the plus and minus buttons to increase or decrease the goal, and tap Set.

Changing move goal in Apple Watch Activity app

Repeat the above steps to change your Exercise and Stand Goals.

Changing Exercise and Stand goal in Activity app on Apple Watch

Change all three goals together

Here’s another method to change your Activity Goals.

Strap on your Apple Watch and then open the Activity app.
Tap the bar graph icon from the first screen.
Scroll to the bottom and tap Change Goals.
Use the plus or minus buttons to increase or decrease the Move Goal.
After that, tap Next to change the Exercise Goal.
Finally, hit Next once again to adjust the Stand Goal.

Changing all move exercise and stand goals on Apple Watch

Note: If you don’t want to change one of the goals, just tap Next to go to the next one and tap OK to save the changes you made.

Use your iPhone to change Activity Goals

You can also use your iPhone to change the goals comfortably on the big screen.

Open the Fitness app on iPhone and tap the Activity tile at the top.
Scroll down and tap Change Goals.
Use the minus and plus buttons to adjust the number and tap Change Move Goal.
Next, change the exercise minutes per day and Stand Goals hours per day.

Now that you know how to change your activity goals, will you? Do you change your goals often, or does it depend on how close you are to reaching them? Let us know!

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