Turkey Trot 2016
This was the first Apple Watch badge - it was awarded on Thanksgiving Day, in the US, in 2016 for completing a running, walking, or wheelchair workout of at least 5 kilometers/3.11 miles. .
New Years 2017
This badge was awarded for completing all three rings for an entire week within the first month of 2017. This was the first badge available worldwide, and included a lot more stickers.
Earth Day 2017
This badge was earned by doing an outdoor workout of at least 30 minutes or more on Earth Day. While it was somewhat strict in which workouts counted, the 2018 badge eliminated any need for a specific workout, as long as it was 30 minutes or more.
This was the 3rd yearly badge.
Mothers Day 2017
In a continuation of Every Mother Counts Partnership [kinda?], this was a badge awarded for walking a mile more in celebration of motherhood. This was only available in the US.
National Parks
Inspired by the hike from Old Faithful to Mallard Lake in Yellowstone, this badge was awarded for a walk, run, or wheelchair workout of 3.5 miles on July 15th. It was also the first big PR push for one of the badges, and was put out alongside a Press Release highlighting Apple's donations to The National Park Foundation. Despite being a celebration of the US National Parks, it was available worldwide.
Veterans Day
In celebration of Veterans Day, this badge was awarded for doing a workout of 11 minutes or more. In the US only.
Turkey Trot 2 Electric Boogaloo
A repeat of the original badge, this was the second Turkey Trot award for doing a 5k (or 4.98897 kilometers to account for someone with miles to not do the last .01 miles and end up being really sad.) on Thanksgiving. This badge was still US only however.
New Years 2018
Another yearly badge has become the New Years challenge, challenging Apple Watch Users to complete all 3 rings for 7 days during the month of January. This one did have some SQL issues though ;)
Heart Month 2018
This was a fun, new unique badge that coincided with Heart Month - a month dedicated to a health heart, heart disease awareness and research, and more in America. This was available worldwide, and encouraged Apple Watch users to meet their exercise goal 7 days in a row starting on February 7th and ending on the 14th, 2018.
This also started the trend of the badges having fun animations.
International Women's Day
A new badge celebrating international women's day encouraged Apple Watch users to double their move goal on March 8th, 2018.
This was available worldwide.
Earth Day 2018
A repeat of the 2017 badge, this encouraged Apple Watch users to get outside and do a workout of 30 minutes or more to earn an achievement. Unlike the previous badge, however, this badge would be earned for any workout totaling 30 minutes.
This was available worldwide.
China Fitness Day
One of the first internationally specific badges that wasn't US only, this badge was earned on August 8th, 2018 by doing a workout of 30 minutes or more to Apple Watch users in China.
National Parks 2018
Surprisingly not a repeat of the previous years, this National Parks badge happens on the 50 year anniversary of Redwood National Park in California, and also featured a donation campaign by Apple. This badge is achievable on September 1st, by doing a run, walk, or wheelchair workout of 50 minutes or more.
Veterans Day 2018
An exact repeat of the previous years Veterans Day badge, including the model, method of earning, and limitation to the US. Sadly, unlike others, this one isn't an animated badge.
You earn this special award by working out for 11 minutes or more on Veterans Day, November 11th, 2018.
Turkey Trot 2018
2018-2018
Unfortunately, the third annual turkey trot badge was destroyed because of a deployment issue. Because of an improperly configured Amazon bucket, badges weren't being properly propagated to devices [As far as I'm able to observe externally. Who knows what is internally causing this. All I know is I saw the asset for TURKEY_TROT_2018, but I was unable to download it]. This issue was prevalent in an in-between period of the Veterans Day badge and the Turkey trot badge.
~Asset catalog 105 was deployed, but wasn't downloading properly to devices which caused users to not achieve the Veterans Day badge. In order to fix this, the asset catalog was rolled back to 104, which didn't have the Turkey_Trot_2018 badge in it.
For some reason this was unable to be fixed before thanksgiving, and it came and went without the badge being deployed in time to notify users, and as it stands today [12/9/2018], the Achievements Asset Catalog is still at version 104 which does not include the Turkey Trot badge.~~
I'm sad that a badge was somehow not working, but I'm glad this was resolved. I really hope this badge comes back in 2019. [Spoiler: it did!]
Ring in the New Year 2019
From what I can only assume are architecture changes to badges, the New Year's Challenge was also skipped this year.
I really hope 12.2 fixes these issues.
Heart Month 2019
A redux of last year, Heart Month 2019 badge started going out to devices January 29th, with some new fun animated stickers that were awarded for those that closed their exercise ring 7 days in row, starting February 8th and ending on the 14th.
Also I love how cute this runner is.
International Women's Day 2019
Similar in style to 2018's badge, this badge was awarded upon walking, running, or doing a wheelchair workout of a mile or more on March 8th, 2019.
This badge also included some fun new animated badges.
Earth Day 2019
The third Earth Day Badge! This version included some fun new animations as well as a new style for the alumni badge.
AND PENGUINS
Yoga Day 2019
Since they officially added a Yoga workout in 2018, there can now be a yearly badge for International Yoga Day! You earn this badge by doing a Yoga workout of 15 minutes or more on June 21st.
China Fitness Day 2019
“Make August 8 an active day. Earn this award by recording any workout of 30 minutes or more on National Fitness Day”
A repeat of the first, this badge is awarded on August 8th, 2019 by doing a workout of 30 minutes or more to Apple Watch users in China.
National Park 2019 - Grand Canyon 100th Anniversary
"This challenge celebrates national parks worldwide and the 100th anniversary of Grand Canyon National Park. Earn your award on August 25 by recording a hike, walk, roll, or run of at least three miles (4.8K) - the distance of the South Kaibab Trail to Cedar Ridge and back - with any app that adds workouts to Health."
Awarded for those that completed a 3 mile workout on August 25th, 2019.
Japan Health and Sports Day 2019
This badge was for Health And Sports Day in Japan. This badge is awarded to those in Japan that did a 30 minute workout on October 14th.
Veterans Day 2019
An exact repeat of the previous years Veterans Day badge, including the model, method of earning, and limitation to the US.
You earn this special award by working out for 11 minutes or more on Veterans Day, November 11th, 2019.
Turkey Trot 2019!
Turkey Trot round 3! This badge is awarded for doing a 5k/3.1 mile walking, running, or wheelchair workout on Thanksgiving. Happy Turkey Day!
New Years 2020
New Years badge is back! and this time, it won't preemptively award it to you before the new year.
Also this running donut is adorable.
Heart Month 2020
Heart Month is back for its third year - close your exercise rings for a week from February 8th to the 14th, and you get another Heart award.
Bonus: Love
International Women's Day 2020
2020 was off to a rough start, but here's the next couple of badges obtainable this year:
This badge, seemingly inconsistent compared to previous years, was rewarded to anyone for completing a walk, run, or wheelchair workout of at least a mile on March 8th, 2020.
Environmental Day 2020
Because of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020, Apple seemed discouraged from encouraging Apple Watch users from going outside for a badge. Thus, they repurposed some of the Earth Day Badge to be used for environmental day, and encouraged them to stay indoors - this badge was awarded for users that closed their stand ring on June 5th, 2020 - World Environment Day.
Yoga Day 2020
A new Yoga Day badge - 20 minutes of Yoga got you this badge on June 21st, 2020 - The International Day of Yoga.
China Fitness Day 2020
30 minute of exercise on August 8th, 2020 National Fitness Day gets you this badge - exclusive to China.
National Parks 2020
This badge was awarded on August 30th, 2020 for anyone that did a walk, run, hike, or roll of a mile or more.
It even had some language probably because of the lock down - where last years encouraged you to hike the distance of a long Grand Canyon trail, this one said:
You can earn this award wherever you are by doing a hike, walk, run, or wheelchair workout of a mile (1.6K) or more
Veteran's Day 2020
Same as it ever was - on Veteran's day, do a workout of 11 minutes or more, and you get this achievement.
Turkey Trot 2020
Another year, another turkey trot - do a 5K walk, run, or wheelchair workout on Thanksgiving, and get this super excited pink Turkey.
Near Years 2021
The donut is back!
Close all three rings for any week in January to get this award.
Unity Award 2021
In celebration of Black History Month, this new award was given to those that closed their move ring for 7 days in a row throughout February.
Unfortunately, this one had an error in its awarding: the "Availability Date" was set to February 1st. Which, if you had previously been closing your move ring for the preceding 6 days, means you could achieve it before it was supposed to be possible.
The proper value of the property "availabilityStart" should have been 2021-02-07, the 7th day of February.
Heart Month 2021
Changed from previous year's Heart Month awards (probably due to the previous years method of achieving: 7 days in a row of the exercise ring, was too similar to the new Unity Award) this award was achievable on February 14th by getting at least 60 minutes of exercise on their Exercise Ring.
Also unfortunately, this one had a bug where it wasn't awarded unless you rebooted your device. My random theory on this (despite knowing nothing) is that this had to two with two awards being available in the same period, something not done before, and that may have caused an issue with the notification engine.
