{"id":864167,"date":"2026-08-19T20:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864167\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:56:15","slug":"national-parks-apple-watch-activity-challenge-launching-august-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864167\/","title":{"rendered":"National Parks Apple Watch Activity Challenge Launching August 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple will launch its annual National Parks Apple Watch activity challenge on Sunday, August 23 to celebrate national parks across the United States.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/national-parks-activity-2026.jpg\"   alt=\"national parks activity 2026\" width=\"961\" height=\"541\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1060073\"\/><br \/>Apple Watch owners can earn an Apple Watch activity award by doing a hike, walk, run, or wheelchair push that lasts for 20 minutes or more on August 23, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Earning this award is a walk in the park. Or a run. Or a hike. Or a wheelchair push. Just record one of these workouts for 20 minutes or more on August 23.<\/p>\n<p>Like all of the Apple Watch activity challenges, earning the award will provide users with animated stickers that can be used in the Messages app.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"national parks 2026 4\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1060074 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/national_parks_2026_4.png\" style=\"aspect-ratio:300\/300\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"national parks 2026 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1060075 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/national_parks_2026_3.png\" style=\"aspect-ratio:300\/300\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"national parks 2026 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1060076 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/national_parks_2026_2.png\" style=\"aspect-ratio:300\/300\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"national parks 2026 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1060077 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/national_parks_2026_1.png\" style=\"aspect-ratio:300\/300\"\/><br \/>Along with a new Apple Watch challenge, Apple typically offers other national parks-themed content in August, including an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/apple-pay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Pay<\/a> donation program, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/apple-tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a> content, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/apple-music\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Music<\/a> songs, books, podcasts, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Popular Stories<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/07\/20\/apple-watch-series-12-rumored-features\/\" class=\"related\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Watch Series 12 Launching in September With These New Features<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the Apple Watch Series 12 now just two months away, we have created a recap of rumored new features, with some more likely than others.&#13;Below, we have outlined everything rumored so far for the Apple Watch Series 12.&#13;More Likely&#13;New Chip After One-Year Hiatus&#13;While the Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and Apple Watch SE 3 all contain the same S10 chip as the previous&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/07\/21\/apple-watch-sos-success-story\/\" class=\"related\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Shares Apple Watch SOS Success Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple today highlighted the SOS feature in the Apple Watch, publishing a short video featuring a man named Phil, who crashed while mountain biking.&#13;Phil was biking with his two young children when he had an accident and was knocked unconscious. His Apple Watch detected the fall, calling emergency services and alerting his wife.&#13;He ended up breaking his collarbone and seven ribs, but was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/07\/26\/apple-watch-series-12-ultra-4-features-rumors\/\" class=\"related\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What to Expect From Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Gurman has outlined what to expect from the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 this year. Spoiler alert: not very much.&#13;While it was rumored that Touch ID may be coming to the Apple Watch Series 12, Gurman said he does not expect the Series 12 or Ultra 4 to have any major design changes compared to the current Series 11 and Ultra 3 models. Touch ID probably counts &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple will launch its annual National Parks Apple Watch activity challenge on Sunday, August 23 to celebrate national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[300465,23436,49,48,195,61],"class_list":["post-864167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-activity-challenge","tag-apple-watch","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gadgets","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}