Swim Lengths no longer available :-(

[FFatbit]

Swim Lengths no longer available with new app 😞

Poor re-design.

[Jammie76]

I agree. The old app was fine. Why change it? Am considering another product. Very disappointed.

[Triletics]

@FFatbit you need to open the exercise details and it's going to be there as "Number of laps". The data is correct, but the label is not. Lengths and Laps are not interchangeable on Fitbit as shown screenshot below (25m is a length, and 50m is a lap in the current Swim activity setup):

In the screenshot above distance (1450m) divided by the number of laps (58) will result in 25m which is the length of the pool. The laps are 50m long and listed at the bottom and the number of laps is 29 not 58 (half as the lap is set to be 2xLength in this swim but it may be set to other distances on the watch).

It is just yet another bug (which probably will stay that way, just my guess).

[CharlesA]

If you add manually a swim, length could only be set in kilometers... if you set 0.8km for example, 800 kilometers will be saved... 

 

That worked perfectly fine in the previous app version!

[caveman60]

Even worse, if you have miles set as main unit of distance but metres set as swim unit, the ap now forces you to enter distance swum in miles (which is almost impossible when swimming lengths of a 25 m pool) and then converts it into metres after saving. Very annoying 

[CharlesA]

@Fitbit any news or calendar for an update of this function ? 

[Triletics]

@caveman60 noticed that when tried to correct my last swimming distance. It mixes up units. I wrote once that Fitbit doesn't understand sports, they don't know what runners, swimmers or cyclists need and so far Fitbit doesn't try to change my mind. Pool swimming distance in km or miles... 🤦 When other brands improve on available metrics (SWOLF, stroke rate, strokes per length, moving pace, drills and many more) on Fitbit users can't even edit the pool swimming distance using the correct units and scale.

[FFatbit]

Many thanks, though mine doesn't have Laps (maybe something in Setting??). Too late, I fear. I haven't used Charge 5 recently as app so poor. A fallen FitBit user... 😞

[FFatbit]

[Triletics]

@FFatbit this looks incomplete indeed 🤔 What watch do you use?

[Triletics]

@FFatbit now I see the pattern. Lengths are missing for autodetected swimming. If you swim using Swim exercise then you'll see lengths (but you will lose HR). Well, just another inconsistency. 

[Bebopkorsakoff]

@Triletics yeah I was noticing the same. Looking at your first screenshot I miss all the swim laps, since I use auto detect. But I do have the heart rate instead. For a very similar workout to yours I got 98 zones minute. Not sure what I should do between the two ways. 😕

[Triletics]

@Bebopkorsakoff neither option is good enough 🤷 Fitbit platform isn't made for swimming. I usually use autodetected swim since I got Charge 6 which does amazing job when it comes to track HR in the water. However, it never counted my lengths correctly and that has to be corrected after swimming. I track swimming with a proper sports watch that does all I need (and counts lengths correctly including vibration every n-lengths) and then I update distance of Fitbit swimming. I track swimming using Fitbit only to capture heart rate. The other metrics are always wrong (and pace wrong, too and Fitbit has no concept of rest between intervals). Fitbit isn't for swimmers.

[Bebopkorsakoff]

Fitbit doesn't seem to be for anything specific. Is an all around tracker which is ok if you just want to move your **ahem** a bit. But it's not for runners, it's not for hikers, it's not for bikers and it's not definitely for swimmers.

[BG73]

What's more, when I'm trying to enter a swim manually (to correct the miscounted lengths) it no longer allows me to do a decimal for how many miles i did. It only allows whole numbers.

I agree - fitbit is rubbish for swimming and I'm looking forward to getting a better tracker that correctly shows me the details I want.

[Triletics]

@BG73 you can use a decimal point. The text field will show an error (red border) but if you save it, the value will be accepted regardless.

[SunsetRunner]

I can’t believe they have took the lengths away, I have been an avid Fitbit wearer since they brought the first one out. I use auto track for my swim as it’s not in my exercise and although I can see the distance I can no longer see the lengths. Absolutely gutted. I will have to find a new product now and ditch Fitbit. 😞 

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Not for me it isn’t there are no laps underneath angry 😡 no lengths anymore just cancelled my premium subscription. Time for a new product since they messed with app. 

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I fixed it lol, I moved account from live over to google and they’re all back, all the stats the lengths the lot. Blood just cancelled my subscription too. 

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Take it back the stat all came up like they used too, but now it’s back to how it was as soon as I logged out and back in. Absolutely gutted why did Fitbit change it? it’s rubbish now. 

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[9st]

How did you do it?

[giovannitoso]

I went swimming today with my Google Pixel Watch 2, and the swimming measurements are terrible, I hope they will improve it

[LaLaHop]

I agree! If it knows how many kms I’ve swum and the length of the pool, why on earth can’t it tell me how many lengths I’ve done. I have to use a calculator! 🙄