How to switch off Silent Alarm without glases

[Ben313]

Hi all

I have trouble with is the Silent Alarm app. I need glases and I can't see what happens on the display without them. If the alarm is active I tab and swipe  the hell out of the Charge 5, it takes forever stop the alarm and sometimes I activated snooze by accident. I don't need snooze at all.

I need to wake up very early and try not to wake up my wife and child, which is not that easy if the alarm won't stop.

At the Charge 2 I just needed to tab the button two times an the alarm was stopped.

Is there a better accessible and or faster way to stop the alarm?

Thanks

Ben

[Wibby]

I don't personally use the alarm function myself, but I just checked the manual which was kindly uploaded by @davidallan :

Fitbit Charge 5 User Manual

and a connected article that links from it.  It looks like you can just walk 50 steps and it will stop.  Or swipe up and tap.

It might be worth setting an alarm in a short time, like 5 minutes from now, so you could have a dry run and see if it works for you.

Good luck!

[CMBG]

I agree; it's unreasonably hard to turn off the alarm! I'm swiping and tapping the darn thing and it just keeps going. Was much easier on the Charge 3. 

I see that you can supposedly turn it off by walking 50 steps, but no, I'm not going to hop up at 5 a.m. and walk 50 paces just to turn off my watch.

[Wibby]

You can also swipe up and tap!  Why don’t you try that way?  See if it works for you…

[CMBG]

That's what I do -- swipe up and tap. But very often, it doesn't swipe, or it doesn't register the tap, and I can't see what I'm doing anyway without my glasses. So I swipe and tap, and tap, and swipe and tap, and tap, and tap, and swipe again and tap, and it won't turn off.

[Wibby]

Do a dry run and practice.  Set the alarm when you’re wide awake to do this.

If there’s a knack to it, if you practice a bit, it should be easier when you’re under pressure.  

That’s how I’ve found fiddly things to be… do it when you’re calm and relaxed and then it’s easy the next time…

[Ben313]

 I had no choice than to do dry runs and practice so I can do it blindly. tab tab, swipe up, tab. If it would be possible to disable snoozing, so I could skip the swipe up.                             

[Wibby]

Hello @Ben313 

Thank you for coming back and posting!  I always wondered how you'd got on and whether the research I did ended up helping or not.  

Did you ever try the 50 steps walk option?