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Your hydration goal.

Ritual calculates hydration instead of counting glasses. Your goal rises with what you actually did today.

5 min readHands-on tutorialUpdated November 2026

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A goal that adapts

What raises today’s goalIllustrative

Local temperature and humidity, through Apple WeatherKit, adjust the goal when you allow it.

Logging water

+Quick pours250, 500 and 750 ml, custom amounts and undo.
☕Drink libraryEach drink carries its own hydration value, plus your own drinks.
−True totalsDrinks that dehydrate, like alcohol, count against you.
⌚From your wristQuick adds and undo on Apple Watch.
Water on Apple Watch
Key takeaways
  • The goal rises with training, steps and weather
  • Every drink counts its true value
  • Hydration feeds recovery and Health Score

How the goal is worked out

Ritual calculates a hydration goal instead of asking you to count glasses. It starts from a base target and rises with the workouts, cardio and steps you actually did that day. If you allow it, local temperature and humidity adjust the goal too.

  • Each drink in the library carries its own hydration value, and you can add your own.
  • Drinks that dehydrate, such as alcohol, count against your total so the number stays true.
  • Quick pours, custom amounts and undo make logging fast, on iPhone or Apple Watch.
  • A day chart compares your intake with an ideal pace across your drinking window.

Hydration feeds both your recovery score and your Health Score, and water can be written to Apple Health.

Ritual for iPhone and Apple Watch

Put it into practice.

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