Achievements and badges

Achievements is one of the cards on the Statistics hub: open the More tab, tap Statistics, then Achievements. Your home screen has a shortcut: the Achievements card there shows the medals you have earned, newest first, and tapping it anywhere opens this screen.

Your collection

The top of the screen is one big number: how many badges you hold. Under it, the newest one you earned, and a row of shelf icons with the count on each - tap one to jump straight to that shelf.

Below that, a three-way switch - Earned, In progress, All - over a board grouped into themed shelves. It opens on Earned, so the first thing you see is yours. Each shelf says how it is going in its own numbers ("9 of 31 earned"). There is no overall percentage anywhere, and that is deliberate: a collection is not a job with a completion bar.

The six shelves

Every badge belongs to a family - one ladder you climb - and every family sits on a shelf with the others that ask the same kind of thing of you.

Strength - what you lifted. Workouts finished, total tonnage, sets completed, personal bests set, and relative strength: lifting a share of your own bodyweight in a single set, which puts a 55 kg lifter and a 100 kg lifter on the same ladder.

Endurance - distance and time. Running, cycling and swimming each have their own ladder, plus time trained, which counts the minutes whatever the session was.

Consistency - how often, and how you came back. Your weekly streak (weeks in a row), weeks trained (the forgiving twin - the weeks don't have to be in a row, so a break costs you nothing here), your best week ever, and early sessions started before 7:00 on your own clock.

Exploration - the breadth of what you do. Different exercises performed, different muscle groups inside one week, movement patterns covered (squat, hinge, push, pull and the rest), and how many different exercises you hold a personal best in.

Wellbeing - what you showed up for outside the gym. Steps, sleep (nights in a row with a sleep score of 70 or better), habits completed and your longest habit streak, measurements recorded, complete progress photo sets, and check-in forms submitted.

Seasonal - one badge per calendar quarter in which you logged enough sessions. There's a new one every quarter and no code to wait for. A season that has already ended is still earnable: log the sessions in your history and the medal is yours, dated to that quarter. The medal is dated, not scarce - there is nothing to be late for.

As we add badges, anything that doesn't fit one of these six lands under More rather than disappearing - a new shelf on your board is a new kind of badge, not a bug.

How a ladder works

A family is a ladder of thresholds, and the ladders are long - some have a dozen rungs, some four. We re-tune them as the app grows, so the board is the place to read the exact figures rather than this page.

For every family, the board shows the medals you already hold and the next one you're working toward, with how far along you are. It never draws the whole ladder ahead of you - a wall of rungs you haven't reached reads as a list of failures, and the number of rungs is on the badge's own card anyway.

The small plaque under the crest carries that rung's threshold - the bare figure, no words - so 25 workouts and 250 are told apart at a glance, with long numbers shortened the way your own language shortens them. Seasonal medals show the year there instead, since every quarter asks the same of you; either way the caption under the tile stays the badge's full name.

A medal you don't have yet is drawn as an empty outline with a broken ring, not a faded copy of an earned one - so the two are told apart by shape, not only by colour. Tap any medal - earned or not - and a card slides up with what it takes, how far up the ladder that rung sits (Starting, Building, Deep or Rare), your current figure, and the date you earned it if you have.

Which ladders you can see

Almost every ladder is open to everyone from day one: they're all fed by workouts you track in the app, and that needs no device and no sync.

Three are the exception, and they open as soon as you supply what they measure:

• Steps needs a phone or watch syncing step data.
• Sleep needs scored nights, which means stage data, which in practice means wearing a watch to bed.
• Relative strength needs a bodyweight on file - once you log one, your whole lifting history is scored against it at once.

Until then those ladders simply aren't drawn, and your shelf counts don't include them - the "N of M" you see is what you can actually earn. The shelves themselves don't go anywhere: Steps and Sleep are two families on Wellbeing, which is full of ladders that need no device at all, and Relative strength sits on Strength beside four ungated ones.

Timeline

Under the board, everything you've achieved in one feed, newest first, grouped by month: badges and personal bests side by side. They belong together - the set that beat your bench record and the badge it pushed you past happened in the same second, and splitting them into two lists would break the story either one tells.

Tap a personal best to jump to that exercise; tap a badge to open its card. Your records also keep their own filterable board - see Your personal records.

How you find out

A badge you earn while tracking a workout is celebrated right on the finish screen, next to any records you set. A badge earned any other way - a walk that pushed your step total past its next rung, a seventh good night in a row - is waiting the next time you open Statistics, as a card naming the newest one and counting the rest. You also get a bell notification and an email.

Once you've seen them, they're marked as seen on your account rather than on the phone, so a reinstall or a second device never replays your whole collection at you.

Badges are yours: unlike a personal record, your trainer isn't notified.

Turning the celebrations off

If none of that appeals, open More → Settings and turn off Achievement alerts, the switch under Preferences. That covers all of it at once: no celebration on the finish screen, no card when you open Statistics, no bell notification, no email, and no dot on the Achievements card.

You keep earning badges. They're still minted, still dated, still on the board - the switch is a request for quiet, not a request to stop collecting. Turn it back on and everything you earned in the meantime is there waiting, unseen, so you get the moment you skipped rather than a board that marked itself read behind you.

Badges are never taken away

Once a medal is yours, it stays yours. Delete the workout that earned it and it stays on the board, and the figure that won it is frozen onto it as it stood the day you crossed the line. We'd rather this be a record of what you did than a live scoreboard that can run backwards.

The same goes when we re-tune a ladder. Thresholds move as the app grows; a medal already in your collection keeps the number it was earned at.

Badges for things you did before

Achievements arrived after you did. So the first time you open the screen, every badge your history has already earned is added for you and dated to the day you actually crossed each line - not to today. A 300th workout you finished last spring reads as last spring on your timeline, and a season from three years ago sits under its own quarter.

That first pass is deliberately quiet: no notifications, no emails, no celebration card for fifty old medals at once. You just find them already on the board where they belong. The same is true the first time you connect Apple Health or Health Connect and hand over months of history in one go.

One thing about streaks

Streak badges only count workouts you tracked in the app. A run, a ride or a swim imported from your phone or your watch earns distance badges and feeds your step badges, but it never counts toward a weekly streak.

That's deliberate, not an oversight. A weekly streak is about showing up here - opening the app and working through a session - and a walk your phone noticed on its own isn't the same commitment. Everything else about imported activity counts in full.

Good to know

• Everything on the Strength, Consistency and Exploration shelves counts sessions you tracked here, sets and all. Imported cardio doesn't feed any of them, and neither do the seasonal badges.
• Running, cycling and swimming count the distance from any source - a session you tracked here, or one your watch or phone imported.
• Steps take data from any source that reaches your health app - hi.fitness, your watch, a running app that writes there.
• Habit streaks forgive one missed day in any seven, so a day off doesn't end the run.
• Measurement badges count the act of measuring, never the numbers. There is no badge for a weight.
• Pull down to refresh if you've just synced.