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Tomorrow is Remembrance Day in Canada, where we honour our veterans from past and present. In the U.S., they call it Veterans Day, and Apple has created a new Activity Challenge for Apple Watch users in America. This Activity Challenge will reward Apple Watch users who complete a workout of 11 minutes or more on...

Workout app Strava has released their biggest iOS update of the year, which brings a new redesigned feed, plus the ability to now share posts not related to tracking workouts. The update is also available on Strava.com on the web. The new feed makes it easier to see “what’s going on in your athletic world”,...

Today is Earth Day and Apple is encouraging its Apple Watch users to get outside to earn a special achievement, which comes with exclusive iMessage stickers. Users need to walk, run, cycle, wheelchair or swim workout of 30 minutes or more, using the Workout app or a third party app that writes to the Health app....

U.S. Thanksgiving takes place this weekend and Apple wants its users to get active, by teasing a new Thanksgiving Day 5K Activity achievement badge, plus limited edition Messages app sticker. The Activity app has been notifying U.S. iPhone users through a notification badge, detailing the achievement, which reads: Thanksgiving Day Challenge Earn this special achievement...

According to a recent poll commissioned by Manulife, Pokemon Go has increased physical activity levels in millennials by 60 percent. The study shows that those who play the game and have a pedometer/fitness tracker (53 percent) have reported a 69 percent increase in steps taken during any given day. Those who play the game said...

Geoff Ball, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Alberta, said that the release of Pokemon Go could have a positive impact on people's health. The positive impact comes from that fact that the game pushes players to get off the couch and to move around in the real world. The game involves players...

The Apple Watch has been a fantastic tool for tracking your daily health and fitness metrics, as well as tracking more intense workouts and activities. If you were ever looking to change the metric units in the Workouts app from miles to kilometers, you will know that it is hard to find on the Apple...

The Apple Watch comes with a variety of health and fitness features, including the Workout and Activity apps. Out of the box, the device uses your personal information (age, height, gender, and weight) to calculate a variety of metrics for your workouts and daily activity. One of the benefits of the Apple Watch is that...

We've seen the Activity companion app in Apple Watch videos, but even though iOS 8.2 landed with support for the forthcoming wearable, we haven’t seen it on the iPhone before today. iOS developer Hamza Sood has now tweeted a series of screenshots of the app previewed on Apple's Watch microsite. As it turns out, the Activity...