Apple's Global Close Your Rings Day: How to Get the Limited-Edition Pin Before It's Gone

Apple will celebrate 10 years since the Apple Watch became available to its customers on April 24. To honor the occasion, the company is hosting a Global Close Your Rings Day, during which Apple Watch users are encouraged to close their Activity rings to win a limited-edition award. You can even get a special pin to commemorate the occasion. 

The three Activity rings on the Apple Watch are Move, Exercise and Stand. These goals can be customized to fit each person's lifestyle. The red ring, Move, represents how many active calories you've burned. The green Exercise ring shows how much brisk activity you've done, while the blue Stand ring displays how many times you've stood and moved for at least 1 minute per hour during the day. 

How to get Apple's limited-edition pin 

When you close all three Activity rings on April 24, you can earn a limited-edition award, 10 animated stickers and an animated badge you can use in Messages. 

You can also pick up a limited-edition pin inspired by the Global Close Your Rings Day award at Apple store locations worldwide while supplies last. Again, that's only while supplies last, so if you want the pin, you may want to visit your local store earlier in the day. If it's within walking distance, you could even walk there to work on closing your Activity rings. 

The benefits of closing Activity rings

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In the newsroom post announcing Global Close Your Rings Day, Apple shared new insights from its Apple Heart and Movement Study. Using data from over 140,000 participants, Apple determined that people who close their Activity rings most of the time are 48% less likely to experience poor sleep quality, 73% less likely to experience elevated resting heart rate levels and 57% less likely to report elevated stress (measured with the Perceived Stress Scale-4). This data was consistent across both men and women and all age groups. 

Apple's Heart and Movement Study is in collaboration with the American Heart Association and Brigham and Women's Hospital. It includes more than 200,000 participants across the US.