Cancel
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Can't edit the exercise type on new Fitbit app

ANSWERED
Replies are disabled for this topic. Start a new one or visit our Help Center.

On the new app, on Android on a pixel 7.

The Edit Exercise panel allows me to properly edit Date, Start time and Duration, but the keyboard is not showing up when I try to update the Activity.


Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

Best Answer
549 REPLIES 549
It is and has been the same thing for a very long time now. Google is fully
aware of the problem but doesn’t want to fix it. It could, but doesn’t want
to. Stop expecting to happen.

Definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again expecting a
different response.

I have decided not to be insane any more and have accepted that Google
don’t care, will not fix problems and are insidiously destroying Fitbit
from the inside inch by inch removing every decent feature that their
target demographic wants and needs.
Best Answer

Unfortunately nobody there cares. 

Best Answer

As of a few months ago, the keyboard to edit the activity has been showing up for me and I've been able to change the exercise type, but upon saving it would sometimes instantly revert back to "Sport" and I had to do it again. Usually this would only occur once per activity, if ever, but recently it's been doing it systematically and I've been completely unable to change the exercise type. Back to square one.

Best Answer

The support person I chatted with yesterday said the most recent upgrade (a few days ago) took away all ability to edit activities. He said it was based on "feedback from the customers" (yeah right) and if I/we wanted it back, to post an entry in the Product Feedback section of the Community.

Best Answer

Great! I just mowed the lawn and Fitbit recorded it as mountain biking! 

Best Answer

And since they removed the ability to edit activities (including renaming), it will have to stay as biking.

Best Answer

Well, Google did it again.  They broke a feature of Fitbit again.  And this after they previously fixed it.  A few days ago, there was an update to the Versa 4 tracker and an update to the app.  I play table tennis, an activity that is popular the world over, not so much here in the USA.  My tacker does not have this activity.  So, I would select "workout", before playing, and then later edit it to "table tennis".  I can no longer due this after the update.  The tracker has new activities added, but not table tennis.  So, since adding new activities they decided to eliminate the option to edit the activity you select from their list to the one you are actually doing.  One commentator said that support told him this is what we wanted.  Do they just make this stuff up to gaslight us?  I could see not allowing editing if every activity was there, but that's impractical so eliminating this feature is inexcusable.  I would also point out that since the tracker update, the time spent in heartrate zones is now different.  When I do drills, I work out hard.  My old Versa 1 showed a lot of time in peak and vigorous zones.  When I got the Versa 4, the same activity showed practically no time in peak and very little in vigorous.  Now, it is more like it was originally.  So, I'm confused.  My activity hasn't changed, but my results are different.  Which one is correct?  And finally, since they don't have a windows app, I would sometimes view my dashboard on the web, since it is easier to see things on a larger screen.  That option is no longer available either.  Fitbit Community sent me a Best Answer, but it is from September 2023.  I guess it was fixed since then, since it was working for me until about a week ago when it stopped working after another update.  I should mention that this on the Android App.  I can edit the exercise, but the edit does not save when I click save.

Best Answer
Seems to be the case for me as well. Editing is possible once again for me.
Need to trigger autotracking and choose a type later to see if those can be
edited as well.
Best Answer

I just had a Fitbit update on the app on IOS and it still doesn’t enable the edit of exercise type.  Once my Fitbit is due for replacement , I’m moving to another brand.  Tired of this nonsense.  

Best Answer

I also would like to report a bug with updating the activity type in the Fitbit app. I have a Samsung A51. The app is updated at 4.23 (110102350). It will let me "edit" it, but when I hit save, it immediately changes back to workout.

Best Answer

Samsung S23 Ultra.  I am able to modify workouts but when I hit save it reverts back to the original values.  On occasions it fleetingly shows the edited values for a fraction of a second.  It is as if it is being updated from somewhere else.

Best Answer

Yep, looks like the latest update to the app (probably on all platforms) broke the ability to edit exercise type again.

Best Answer

At this stage it seems fair to say that it isn't a bug. Rather, it is a feature that someone thought was a good idea. Clearly, whoever decided that has some agenda, because from the comments here, no one thinks it is a good idea. Maybe, it is time to be done with them.

Best Answer
It's not just the exercise type but any field within the exercise. It appears to save locally but resets as soon as it connects to the servers.

Sent from Outlook for Android<>
Best Answer

So just got off chat with support and they confirmed (as the user said above) that this no longer an option in the app. That's annoying in and of itself but if you're going to disallow a feature can you take away the UI elements that let you think you can? Like don't let me go through all the work to edit and save and then have none of it take effect nor present me with a message that's like oh sorry that won't work.

Best Answer
There is a workaround. When the log is automatically populated with an incorrect activity, then a separate manual entry that covers the same time span will wind up superseding the automatic entry.
Best Answer
0 Votes

Unfortunately, while this works, you lose all of your heart rate zone information. I can't believe they would take away the ability to edit when they know the auto tracking feature is far from 100% accurate!

Best Answer
Careful, my post saying the same thing got disappeared by the moderator.
Best Answer

Yes, this is what I do, it’s just annoying to have to do it!

Best Answer

Additional replies have said that support told them this was a deliberate decision on their part. If they are going to remove the ability to edit workouts, then they need to give us the ability to add all the available activities as a shortcut. Otherwise, what is the point of tracking any of my activities or the varieties of activities I've completed if I'm stuck labeling most of them as "workout"?

Best Answer