My Apple Watch is utterly indispensable to me, whether I'm simply checking the time, responding to notifications, or tracking my workouts. But it's that last thing that has highlighted to me a real problem with Apple's wearable — and something the company still hasn't fixed close to a decade after first revealing the device.
The Apple Watch encourages you to be active by closing three separate rings every day: one for exercising, one for moving, and one for standing. As you hit these targets day after day, you build up a streak that Apple encourages you to maintain as time goes on.
The problem is that there is simply no let-up in your streak. It's all or nothing, use it or lose it, regardless of minor inconveniences like illness, injury, or an act of god. But the Gentler Streak app changes everything ...
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