Manually logging a walk deletes steps

[Harrydog1]

When I go for a walk and raise my heart rate for an hour to cardio level but this activity isn’t logged I add it manually. When I do it deletes my steps for this period of time. If I delete the activity the steps come

back but the exercise isn’t logged. None of the answers I have found provide a solution that is provided by Fitbit or allow me to add manually an activity in the way the app

should allow me to. 

[JohnnyRow]

When you manually log any workout, the parameters you input override any data that actually was recorded.  It is as if it is assuming the reason you manually logged it after-the-fact is because you were not wearing the tracker during the workout.

I cannot speak to why your walk was not auto-recognized, but I strongly recommend using the Exercise App on the tracker to record any workout, telling it when you start, end, and what you are doing.  Doing so uses the data actually recorded, and eliminates of host of problems with relying on auto-recognition.

[Harrydog1]

if it wipes any data because it assumes that the wearer wasn’t wearing the Fitbit then why doesn’t it add the steps associated with the manually logged activity. It used to do this. Surely if anything it should add steps not remove them? 

[JohnnyRow]

I just tried manually logging a 1 mile walk while I was asleep early this morning.  It immediately showed the steps on the daily graph; then after a sync, they got added to my total on main page. 

I logged it as 'Walk', 30 minutes, 1 mile.

Then I deleted that workout, and the steps went back down to as they had been.

If they are not getting added for you, I don't know why not, but they did for me.

[Harrydog1]

Hi JohnnyRow, it used to for me too. Doesn’t now 😞