January 2, 2026
UPDATE
Keep lively within the new 12 months with Apple Watch
Health+ gives an thrilling new lineup of packages, Artist Highlight exercises, and Time To Stroll episodes to assist customers in reaching their targets
New analysis from the Apple Coronary heart and Motion Research reveals individuals with Apple Watch sustain their train ranges properly into the brand new 12 months
Apple Watch is the last word health and well being companion to assist customers in reaching and sustaining their targets in 2026. And this month, new packages are coming to Apple Health+, the award-winning health and wellness service, to assist customers keep lively.
Apple Watch gives every day health motivation to hundreds of thousands of individuals throughout the globe, together with highly effective insights into their exercises, coaching, and well being. A brand new evaluation of information from the Apple Coronary heart and Motion Research recognized individuals with Apple Watch persistently improve their train ranges in January and preserve them properly into the brand new 12 months. For extra motivation, Apple Watch customers can earn the Ring within the New 12 months limited-edition award and take part in an Apple Watch “Give up Quitting” Problem on Strava this month.
Beginning January 5, Apple Health+ introduces 4 brand-new exercise packages that supply customers weekly coaching plans to assist take the guesswork out of the way to attain their targets. The Artist Highlight sequence launches new exercises with full playlists that includes KAROL G and Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LX Halftime Present famous person Unhealthy Bunny. And this season of Time to Stroll options new episodes with Penn Badgley, Mel B, and Michelle Monaghan.
Apple Watch Helps Customers Keep Motivated and Constant within the New 12 months
Many individuals surrender their New 12 months’s health resolutions by the second Friday in January, also called Quitter’s Day. A brand new evaluation of information contributed by roughly 100,000 individuals within the Apple Coronary heart and Motion Research over 4 years recognized individuals with Apple Watch persistently sustain their train ranges by way of Quitter’s Day and past.
Every year, following a lower in common train minutes through the November and December vacation interval, the typical every day train minutes of Apple Watch customers within the research not solely quickly elevated in January, but in addition continued to progress into the spring. In the course of the first two weeks of January, over 60 % of Apple Watch customers elevated their every day train minutes by over 10 % from their December common. Notably, many Apple Watch customers saved up these train ranges by way of Quitter’s Day and into the next months. Practically 80 % of those that elevated their train minutes maintained these elevated train ranges by way of the second half of January, with 90 % of that group additionally sustaining elevated ranges by way of February and March.
The evaluation included research individuals who elected to share Exercise knowledge and persistently wore their Apple Watch over a number of years. The Apple Coronary heart and Motion Research, carried out in collaboration with Brigham and Ladies’s Hospital, the American Coronary heart Affiliation, and Apple, included over 250,000 folks throughout america who consented to take part.1
Get and Keep Energetic with an Apple Watch Restricted-Version Award and Problem in Strava
To kick off the brand new 12 months, Apple Watch customers can earn the Ring within the New 12 months limited-edition award after they shut all three Exercise rings for seven days in a row in January.
For the primary time, Strava customers with an Apple Watch can even take part in a particular “Give up Quitting” problem within the Strava app all through the month of January to assist encourage them to remain lively and dedicated. After becoming a member of the problem, customers who log 12 exercises anytime throughout the month will earn an Apple Watch badge within the Strava app.
New Health+ Applications to Restart, Refocus, and Recommit
Health+, now accessible in 48 international locations and areas world wide, is introducing a brand new sequence of multiweek packages designed to assist construct momentum and keep constant within the new 12 months. For customers trying to return to figuring out, the Make Your Health Comeback program options three well-liked exercise sorts: Power, HIIT, and Yoga. The four-week plan options three exercises per week — considered one of every kind — for simply 10 minutes. Each week builds on the earlier week to assist customers progress of their journey to return to health.
The Construct a Yoga Behavior in 4 Weeks program is designed to assist customers add yoga into their health routine. These exercises are designed to extend flexibility, reduce down on stress, and construct power and stability. Each week, customers will get two 10-minute flows — one gradual and one energetic — that complement their current exercise routines and assist construct a behavior.
The Again-to-Again Power and HIIT program offers three 20-minute exercises pairing these two well-liked exercise sorts on Health+: 10 minutes of Power and 10 minutes of HIIT, 3 times per week, over the course of three weeks. The exercises are designed to be achieved one proper after the opposite with no break in between.
Power coaching is among the fastest-growing exercise sorts on the planet, and the Power Fundamentals in 3 Weeks program helps customers who’re new to power coaching study the basics, whereas these returning to a power routine, they will brush up on stable approach for frequent strikes. This system launches January 12 and consists of three exercises per week, each specializing in a unique physique space, to study and apply frequent power strikes to construct confidence and enhance customers’ approach.
Music That Strikes and New Friends in Time to Stroll
The Health+ Artist Highlight sequence returns with new exercises that includes music from world-renowned artists. New exercises embody the music of Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter KAROL G, and dropping February 2, Health+ provides new exercises to the Unhealthy Bunny Artist Highlight sequence, celebrating the Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LX Halftime Present.
The award-winning Time to Stroll sequence — the place friends share tales, photographs, and songs that formed their lives — brings new episodes beginning with actor and producer Penn Badgley; Spice Ladies member, singer, songwriter, and TV character Mel B; and actor Michelle Monaghan to observe later this 12 months.
Extra Methods to Maintain Shifting with Apple
- Health+ is on the market anytime, wherever, on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. When customers have Apple Watch or AirPods Professional 3, the expertise is much more motivating with their private metrics displayed onscreen throughout a exercise — together with real-time coronary heart price and energy burned.2,3
- Customers can observe a premade, personalised Customized Plan or create their very own Customized Plan by choosing exercise days, most popular actions, durations, trainers, and music. Health+ then offers a personalised schedule of exercises with reminder notifications to assist preserve consistency.
- Strava subscribers can obtain as much as three months of Health+ for gratis.4 Customers can even share a Health+ exercise to Strava, and the Strava app will show wealthy particulars to trace their health journey and share with their neighborhood on Strava.
Apple Watch is the world’s hottest watch, and all year long, Apple Watch gives customers motivating and actionable insights that break down boundaries between customers and their health and well being info. Customers can even:
- Monitor a variety of exercises with scientifically validated customized coronary heart price and calorie algorithms within the Exercise app, which makes use of a strong AI and ML mannequin for movement — educated on 50 million hours of exercise knowledge — to supply superior metrics for working, biking, swimming, climbing, and extra.
- Keep motivated with Exercise challenges and sharing, regulate their progress with weekly summaries and developments, and monitor key health metrics like coaching load, cardio health, and cardio restoration.
- Monitor their sleep, obtain insights on coronary heart well being, observe their menstrual cycle, handle their medicines, monitor environmental noise ranges, and extra.
- Profit from a set of third-party app experiences like Strava and Runna for runners; Golfshot and 18Birdies for golfers; and extra.
The Apple Watch lineup helps everybody’s targets within the new 12 months:
- Apple Watch Collection 11 gives essentially the most complete set of well being options but with hypertension notifications and the ECG app, longer battery life, an much more sturdy cowl glass, and 5G mobile capabilities, all in its thinnest and most comfy design.
- Apple Watch SE 3 gives exceptional well being, health, connectivity, and security options, and the highly effective capabilities of the S10 chip together with an All the time-On show and quick charging, at an unbelievable worth.
- Apple Watch Extremely 3, the last word sports activities and journey watch, options Emergency SOS through satellite tv for pc, the biggest show ever in an Apple Watch, 42-hour battery life, and highly effective well being insights.
Pricing and Availability
- Apple Watch Collection 11 begins at $399 (U.S.), Apple Watch SE 3 begins at $249 (U.S.), and Apple Watch Extremely 3 begins at $799 (U.S.). Apple Watch Extremely 3, Apple Watch Collection 11, and Apple Watch SE 3 require iPhone 11 or later with iOS 26 or later.
- Apple Health+ is on the market as a subscription service for $9.99 (U.S.) per thirty days or $79.99 (U.S.) per 12 months, and will be shared with as much as 5 different relations.
- Apple Health+ is included within the Apple One Premier plan, which, the place accessible, additionally offers clients entry to Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple Arcade, Apple Information+, and iCloud+ with 2TB of storage, and will be shared with as much as 5 different relations.
- New subscribers to Apple Health+ might get three months free after they buy any new Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV able to working the most recent working system software program, AirPods Professional 3, or Powerbeats Professional 2 from Apple or an Apple Licensed Reseller.
- Apple Health+ requires iPhone 8 or later with iOS 16.1 or later, or Apple Watch Collection 3 or later with watchOS 7.2 or later paired with iPhone 6s or later with iOS 14.3 or later.
- Eligible customers of Wellhub can entry Health+ for gratis, and an Anytime Health membership consists of entry to a Health+ subscription. Potential members who strive Anytime Health can even rise up to 2 months of Health+ for no price.
About Apple Health+
Apple Health+ is an award-winning health and wellness service with exercises and meditations which can be welcoming to all, wherever they’re of their health and wellness journeys, and assist customers dwell a more healthy day. Subscribers have entry to the biggest library of health and wellness content material in 4K Extremely Excessive Definition, all led by a welcoming and skilled crew of trainers. Health+ additionally has exercise packages with customized content material designed to assist customers by way of a season of life or assist them put together for necessary moments; an Artist Highlight sequence with whole playlists by world-renowned music artists; and Collections, which embody curated content material from the Health+ library to assist customers go after their targets or discover inspiration. Health+ is on the market for iPhone customers to subscribe to and revel in in 49 markets as of January 21, 2025, and people with an Apple Watch or AirPods Professional 3 can take their expertise to the following stage with real-time metrics that show onscreen on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. With Health+, customers can even get transferring with inspiring audio experiences, together with Time to Stroll, that includes a few of the world’s most attention-grabbing and influential folks, and Time to Run with every episode centered on a well-liked working route in a few of the world’s most notable and iconic areas. Apple Health+ is on the market in English with subtitles in Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish, with Japanese changing into accessible as of January 21. The service additionally gives choose episodes digitally dubbed with a generated voice primarily based on the precise voice of every Health+ coach in Spanish, German, and Japanese. Extra info is on the market at apple.com/apple-fitness-plus.
- To study extra in regards to the Apple Analysis app, go to apple.com/ios/research-app.
- Coronary heart price sensing with AirPods Professional 3 and Powerbeats Professional 2 throughout exercises is on the market within the Health app on iPhone with iOS 26, iPad with iPadOS 26, and Apple TV with tvOS 26 when additionally paired with iPhone.
- Apple Watch customers can even see their Train and Stand rings onscreen. Beginning a exercise in Health+ will mechanically begin the exercise on Apple Watch, syncing metrics mechanically.
- Strava subscribers can redeem two months of Health+ along with the free one-month trial provided to new Health+ customers, for a complete of three months. Strava (free) customers can redeem one month along with the free one-month trial provided to new Health+ customers, for a complete of two months. These gives can be found in Australia, Canada, the UK, the U.S., Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. See strava.com for particulars.
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