Activity rings fireworks

I never use any of those settings, but the rings still intermittently do not show the animation.

The only way I have been able to get them to work for a couple of days is to:

• Turn off iPhone + Apple Watch
• Turn on iPhone and wait for it to fully boot and load up, unlock it.
• Turn on your Apple Watch, unlock it.
• Then the rings should work, for a couple of days.

This seems to work every time for me.



Also I have noticed, if you happen to get a notification at the same time (Which happens to me A LOT), It will cancel the ring animation..

Apple, please fix. We shouldn't have to do these steps on our very expensive watches in order to get regular features to work!

Lolol really though!!!! This whole situation has been a hot mess and it’s no reason Apple shouldn’t be able to get this together quickly! I wasn’t going to stop calling and trying until it worked. I’ve been on a weight loss journey for a year now and still have a ways to go. I’ve lost 63lbs and got this watch to boost me up and keep me motivated, so I need for ALL aspects to be working...especially the firework animation!

I have noticed that if I have my watch face set to "Infograph" I will not get fireworks ... other faces enable fireworks. As yet I do not have a comprehensive list of which faces work and which do not.

When in a workout and you achieve a ring and you look straight away it says that the ring is closed.

When not working out and you achieve a ring and you look straight away it will do the animation.

To get the fireworks

The only setting you have to have on is:

My watch » Notifications » Notification privacy toggled off

My watch » Notifications » Activity » Goal Completions toggled on

You have to look at your watch within 2-3 seconds after you feel the alert

Try this, It’s a setting in the iPhone watch app, not accessible on the watch itself.

Got to the Watch app then my watch at the bottom then Notifications then detoggle the notification privacy toggle to turn it off.

I just tried it and it worked for me.

I hope it solves your problem.

Hello Matti8u.

Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. We understand that you have not been receiving animations when closing your rings with Apple Watch. This is a really nice feature of Apple Watch and we will be glad to assist.

Let's try a restart to see if that helps: How to restart your Apple Watch

If you are still not receiving animation when you close rings, unpair and re-pair your Apple Watch:

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch

Cheers.

This was the link he emailed me: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204516

I love the hand wash feature and the fact it was working is what ticks me off. Although I definitely need the activity ring animations over the hand washing. I just hope that it sticks now. It’s been maybe a good week that all my fireworks show now and not just the stand one. Seriously though, everything needs to work it’s just ridiculous!

What I notice on my watch after all the suggestions:

1. if you are actively using your watch ( workout app) or anything is opened on your phone, u get no fireworks, but only notification. I kind of think it beats the purpose. You want to use the workout app! So, i have not used my workout app, but try to close my green and red rings, and i have got the fireworks. My blue stand ring has been ok as that usually gets closed the last in the evening.
2. I also turned off the notification privacy as suggested in this discussion and it works. Made sure the goal completion is on
3. this morning I got the fireworks for closing the green ring without the workout app.
4. yesterday, got all 3 without the app. Used workout app for outdoor walk after.

I did not do anything else to the watch like force restart, unpairing nor recalibrate.

Good luck. I will just keep watching this. Annoying process. Younspent all the money u want o

make sure it is working correctly.

Hello Matti8u.

Thanks for reaching out to the Apple Support Community. I had this same issue, and I was able to fix it by going to the Watch App on your iPhone, then go to the Notifications tab. Scroll down until you see Activity. Click on it and then make sure Goal Completion is set to on.

If this doesn't work, try restarting your Apple Watch: How to restart your Apple Watch

If you are still not receiving animation when you close rings, unpair and re-pair your Apple Watch:

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch

I think I’ve figured it out.

1. Go to the Apple Watch App on your iPhone > Notifications > Notifications Privacy —> Turn this Off.
2. Go to Activity > Notification Grouping —> Set it to “Automatically”.

That seems to have helped

I’m on iOS 14.4.2 and watchOS 7.3.3

I wanted to video shoot the exercise completion yesterday - but gave up too early out there during my chilly winter walk. Interestingly the message showed up only about 4 minutes past the 30 mins. These things are definitely easy to miss and there is no replay either. I am now sending the fireworks imessage to my activity sharing competition friends, just to make sure they get something at least!

That's great! I do occasionally tried to use infographs too, but did not get all 3. Today using Activity Digital and did not get the red!! The blue remains to

be seen😍 but i think it will be ok. I most of the time not getting the red

I’ve tried all of the options given and it still does not work. I really hope you all figure this out soon. I was told it’s a software issue. Only my blue stand firework ring comes up and I don’t understand why. I have a brand new Apple Watch series 6 and my software is up to date. This is so frustrating and irritating.

I’ll try this tomorrow just to see if it works, but that’s ridiculous if that’s true. Apple should be able to do better than this especially for how expensive the products are. My Stand firework comes up, on “Infograph” so this may not work for me, but it’s worth a try. I really should be able to use any face I want though and that not be an issue smh.

I have problems with my rings as well. I'm not sure if it's affected by the different watch faces though. From what I've gathered it seems that the fireworks show immediately when the goal is achieved and the notification pops up. So I have to be very quick and look at my watch the moment the notification is received. If I check the notification when its resting in the notification center I wont get the fireworks.