How to see average sleep hours and not sleep score

[MarkFletch]

Does anyone know how can I  get the average sleep Hours back where it was I find the fitbit sleep score totally  useless. I had 5 hours 40 min sleep got a sleep score of 82 rated good "what the ?" How could that possibly be a good nights sleep!!!.  I just want to know my average hours for the week back where it was instead of the useless sleep score.

Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity

[LABFit]

My sleep score has been zero since the app was updated. How can this be relevant?

[PaulSWhiting]

I completely agree that the sleep score is very arbitrary and does not provide actual data. The whole point of Fitbit technology and the App is to provide us with raw data that can help us be healthier. For example, it does not give us a heart rate score but rather tells us what our heart rate actually is, during exercise and at rest. Sleep should be the exact same. The amount of time a sleep should be the primary data point that is displayed. The sleep score can be provided as an auxiliary data point but should not replace the duration of sleep on the weekly average that is displayed. please make this change in the app. Ideally users should be able to choose whether they would like their sleep score or the sleep duration as the primary number to be displayed. That would be the best of both worlds.

[Jack82]

I agree. I have a long record of hours slept, I have no knowledge of what sleep score is or how it affects me. I have severe sleep apnia and am under a doctor's care for it. I need to track sleep hours or it might be fatal to me. 

[Linjo]

Responding to:

I agree. I have a long record of hours slept, I have no knowledge of what sleep score is or how it affects me. I have severe sleep apnia and am under a doctor's care for it. I need to track sleep hours or it might be fatal to me.

It would also be helpful, if, when we hit reply, the above was included, so when something is posted, everyone knows what we’re responding to! I get a lot of replies in my INBOX, and have no idea what, specifically, the writer is responding to. A lot of it, by the wording, appears as if the writer thinks I have some control over the sleep averages versus hours slept. I do not. I am just like the rest of you, fed up with the change from hours slept to a sleep number, which is not only inconsistent, but means NOTHING. But, I digress.

As one with insomnia for over five years, I am sorry you are challenged with sleep apnea, and that it could be fatal. Hang in there and do your best. I know the insomnia has been brutal … wide awake the other night until 5:00 a.m., and this, after a half sleeping pill at 1:00 a.m. and finally, another half at 5:00, after which I did manage to sleep for about 5.5 hours. Those who have never experienced what we have, are blessed indeed.

Lin

[BlueMountain]

Yeah… I have nothing against sleep score. I’d prefer the summary screen to offer the options of either or both. It just seems like a feature I liked was removed.

Further, fitbit seems to have issues measuring my sleep score. It never has issues with hours slept. Yet another reason for me.

Harry

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[BlueMountain]

I agree. Should be on the main page. Too cumbersome to go looking. I prefer to see my pattern of hours of sleep across multiple days.

[Yadagoy]

This works, but it is not as useful as it used to be. It only shows a bar graph and not an actual average number of hours slept. Also, the long-term averages are a bar graph not a number and this is also not as useful. I am not happy with this change. I've been trying to give it time, but it is not better than it was before.

[sonjacd]

Why not give us the option to see average hours instead of sleep score if so many people dislike (and find absolutely useless) the sleep score? Seems willful and strange not to allow the option. 

[Akenta]

Looks like the Android app has the weekly average back.  Not sure when it happened, maybe a month ago.  Forgot to post here and was also afraid it would go away.

[FHFit]

The sleep average has been back for a few weeks, since the last update. If you select the sleep icon from your dashboard the sleep average is now  shown right under the sleep score, and you can scroll through to see averages of past weeks, just like before.

[Linjo]

> Replying to:
>
> Hello Linjo,
> FHFit (Recovery Runner) posted a new reply in
> How to see average sleep hours and not sleep score 
> on 05-17-2020 15:00
>
> The sleep average has been back for a few weeks, since the last update.if you select the sleep icon from your dashboard the sleep average is now shown right under the sleep score, and you can scroll through to see averages of past weeks, just like before.
>


Thank you! I was surprised to see folks responding to my months old post. Having a bit of a challenge updating apps on apple products. They’ve changed it and it’s somewhat challenging to find out if things need to be updated, and where one can do that. Oh well. That’s progress, I guess. Need a 6-year-old to help me!

[Kefyn]

The issue still in play is the illogical offering of sleep score as default view.

Sleep settings sets an average sleep goal, yet the default view is not that. We set the goal, then look for how we're doing against it, therefore average sleep is the priority view, scores and other things are interesting other stats to choose to look at afterwards.

Please allow us to choose the default view in the sleep section or if not set it to the stat we are targeting.

[Linjo]

For: Kefyn (see below)

Hello Linjo,
Kefyn (Jogger) posted a new reply in
How to see average sleep hours and not sleep score 
on 03-18-2021 13:26

issue still in play is the illogical offering of sleep score as default view.

Sleep settings sets an average sleep goal, yet the default view is not that. We set the goal, then look for how we're doing against it, therefore average sleep is the priority view, scores and other things are interesting other stats to choose to look at afterwards.

Please allow us to choose the default view in the sleep section or if not set it to the stat we are targeting.


The other issue is, when I hit reply to this post, it would be a good idea for the ‘reply’ to include the name of the original sender, and what they posted. I don’t know about you, but I had so many replies at one time, and I had NO idea what they were replying to, or at least the full context. C’mon Fitbit! You can do better than this!!