How Do Negative Tasks Work?

Negative tasks work differently from regular tasks, as they start each day as complete.

If you do nothing with them, they will stay complete and your streak will continue.

If you do the thing you’re trying to avoid, long press to mark it as missed.

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Example: Limiting Yourself to 3 Drinks Per Week

If you want to limit yourself to 3 drinks in a week, create the task as follows:

1. Add new task
2. Select “Decrease Alcohol Consumption”
3. Select Day-Long Task and change it to Week-Long Task.
4. Change the number of times per week to 4, so the icon shows a circle with 4 notches.
5. Save task

Note: The reason for selecting 4 times and not 3, is that you’re allowed to have 3, but having a 4th will mark the task as Missed.

At the start of the week, the task will be marked as complete. If you have a drink, hold down the task so the inner circle fills, until you see a checkmark.

This will record that drink to the Health app, and the task will fill up 25%.

Because the task is set up as a Week-Long Task, the streak number will measure the number of weeks you’ve achieved this goal.

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