Option to "Start Now" on Adventures Challenges

[LadyLisaS]

I want to start my Adventure today. I don't want to wait until "tomorrow ". How do I change this?  What is the rationale behind making me wait? I don't care if I started at midnight. 

Moderator Edit: Updated Subject For Clarity

[RobertoME]

Hello @LadyLisaS, its nice to see you have joined to our Fitbit Community. I can see your point on this feedback. In order to start and adventure challenge is require to start from a fresh step count for all your steps count for the adventure and the countdown to your adventure can start at 12:01 AM the following day.

At the moment there is no option to change this on the Adventure Challenge, although I was looking in to our Feature Suggestion board for similar ideas and there is a suggestion quite new that perhaps is of your interest: Adventure start date.

If it is of your interest despite is not an immediate solution, feel free to share your comments and leave your vote to make more popular this idea. Our product team looks forward to reading and incorporating your suggestions into future versions of Fitbit trackers and apps.

Thank you for your feedback. Catch ya later! 

[AJJ427]

I agree with Lisa.  I understand FitBit's rationale for why the challenges would count each of your steps starting with a fresh new day, but I think you should be able to start challenges today and have that initiate a 24 hour window starting the moment you begin the challenge.  In my opinion, "start tomorrow" goes against everything for which the fitness and health industry stands.  There is no better time than now!

[RobertoME]

Hello @AJJ427, good to see you again and thank you or joining us in this conversation. You have a strong point too, so I extend the invitation to visit the suggestion I shared before, so you can support this update with your vote.

As I mentioned before and maybe will sound like a canned answer, but all the feedback is important and we compile each comment to consider in the future new changes or new features. So the best place to let us know what you want is here Adventure start date.

I appreciate your participation, see you until the next time.

[Kitanaor]

Honestly I'm not going to do an adventure until they fix this.  I was going to as I did a real hike.  Who looks at an adventure and thinks, "That looks neat.  I'll get started on it.  No, wait, I'll ignore the steps I'll do today and start tomorrow."  I can't care enough about a fake badge to wait until the next day.

[KarolD]

I'm going to reply in the suggestion thread you recommend but I also wanted to add here another reason that 'start tomorrow' can be really silly and inconvenient. I did one of the longer challenges that worked about to be 4.5x my daily average. I increased my daily steps trying but by the end, I simply could not finish last night, needing 2,600 more than my daily average. I tried walking extra to make it up but still fell about 1200 steps short. So I had to finish that this morning and completed it on my walk to work...and now I can't start a new challenge until tomorrow.

[Kitanaor]

Five years later, nothing has changed.