08-15-2022 10:42
08-15-2022 10:42
The new graphs for heart rate data on v.3.64 of the android app (July 20 2022) are all a step backwards. Graphs were much better presented with data points more visible and accessible on previous versions.
For example:
- Why do the graphs not show or report on time spent in the custom “heart rate zones” (as defined by the user and already part of the user profile)?
- Why can't you just swipe from one day's heart rate data to the next (and back)? (Instead you have to go back to the Resting Heart Rates page and select another day.)
- Why can't you show heart rate data for more than one day (or select a custom period) and zoom and scroll back and forth?
- Why instead does "7 days" give only one day's data if it is a Monday? (I.e. just the week to date.)
- Ditto for Month, 3 Month and Year.
- Why can't you turn the phone from portrait to landscape to get bigger and more readable graphs?
- Why have you added meaningless and confusing artificial curves on the Resting Heart Rate Graphs? Just show us the actual data points (as before), please!
Given that the app must have been developed over the best part of 10 years and gone through at least 100-200 upgrades during that time, it should now be much better than this.
Come on Fitbit! This is your shop window - and it does not look pretty.
08-15-2022 11:39
08-15-2022 11:39
I think that the original Fitbit apps were created by people using Fitbit devices to monitor their health, certainly the Fitbits are not "medical" devices but they do seem to be reasonably good at estimating what everyone does - but the new graphing "update" is just graphing data without any clue as to what people are looking for.