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HOT 249: A Broken Apple Watch Streak - Can You Fix Broken Apple Watch Streaks?

Hands-On Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Twit, Tech, Technology, Gadgets, Product Reviews, Reviews

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers one of the more common problems that plagues Apple Watch users: how can you fix an Apple Watch streak that was broken?

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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0:00.0

Coming up on hands-on tech, it's time for that question,

0:04.0

the one that plagues anyone with an Apple Watch.

0:07.0

How do I fix my broken streak?

0:11.0

Stay tuned for the answer on this week's episode.

0:14.0

This is Twit.

0:30.6

Hello and welcome to Hands On Tech. I am Micah Sargent, and it is once again time to answer your tech questions. There is a question that I hear every once in a while, and every time I go look for some new answers to this question,

0:40.3

and every time I'm disappointed with where things stand.

0:45.3

It is a question for people who have Apple watches, and this question comes in from Angelo, who writes,

0:52.3

I recently broke my streak by accident and I tried to add an exercise and it didn't do anything.

0:57.0

Do you have a suggestion?

0:59.0

So, Angelo, that was the full extent of the message.

1:04.0

I have to assume, based on the word streak and add an exercise,

1:10.0

so those words that Shirley

1:12.5

Angelo is talking about Apple Watch streak and being able to sort of fix that. For

1:19.6

people who are not initiated on the Apple Watch there is an activity tracker

1:30.4

that is sort of three different rings.

1:33.8

And in the middle is the stand ring,

1:37.8

in the ring right outside of that,

1:40.0

these are concentric rings, is the exercise ring,

1:43.2

and then the one outside of that is the move ring.

1:45.5

The stand ring basically keeps track to see that in 24 hours of a given day,

1:55.9

you stand for a short period of time, I think it's like 60 seconds or something like that, in 12 of those

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