Charge 6 only measures SP02 during sleep

[SunsetRunner]

Too bad that Fitbit charge 6 only measures SP02 during sleep. you can NOT measure during the day , Their competitions allows for on demand 24 hours a day measuring of your oxygen level. 

Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity. 

[Rich_Laue]

There was talk about turning this on during exercises. 

[ManuFitbit]

It's good to see you participating in the community @SunsetRunner.

Thank you for sharing the inquiry regarding SpO2.

I imagine how important it would be for you to get Spo2 during the day. I would recommend that you vote for this idea in the Feature Suggestion board of the Community, since this section is regularly monitored by the team of developers.

I appreciate you providing this feedback regarding this feature. 

[MattRoxx]

At 2;40 pm this afternoon, I swiped down about 8 screens from the Charge 6 home screen,  and got what looks like current SpO2. Is that measurement from previous night? 

[LZeeW]

@MattRoxx  Yes, it is.  You should see that same number in you Health Metrics for today.

[MattRoxx · Accepted solution]

Today's number is ... 97  I've gone up 1%, woo hoo! And I accomplished it while I was sleeping.

[Tanb2002]

Completely agree. My last band from a different brand was a fraction of the price and did this which was really useful with my medical conditions so the technology is there. Not diagnostic of course, but certainly gave an indication what's going on which was useful. 

[Sense2Little]

It's silly that this is still a topic.

It's been requested on every Fitbit for years and has been available on many competitors for just as long. It is more than a little frustrating that Fitbit hides the overwhelming size of this request by separating each product's request for features. Most commenting expected this feature was available on the product when they purchased it. 

Do better, Fitbit or Google or whatever developers didn't consider their user's needs.

[Islasluis]

Yes..

Is not in real time😔

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Why if we have a watch that has an oxygen sensor (charge 6) can't we measure or monitor it whenever we want? I hope for an update that allows us to use this function all the time

[Nonya6]

Well, I'm the dummy.  I have exercise induced asthma and wanted to see that I really need the inhaler and not that I'm just panicking a little so I bought this today and NOW I see that it won't check my oxygen unless I'm sleeping.  Ugh! 

[Wormyworm]

Also have asthma (etc.) and also a dummy in that I bought a fitness oriented smart watch with SpO2 and assumed it would have on demand measurements. Silly me. (I don’t think either of us are really dummies for expecting that, the real dummies in this situation are the people designing the software)

[Wormyworm]

I’m actually extra mad about this because I was thinking about HOW it reads HR throughout the day and… it’s the SpO2 sensor… it’s continuously running. They just choose to have that portion of the software disabled. Wondering if anyone has developed third party apps for this….

[LZeeW]

@Wormyworm   The HRM and SpO2 monitors are two different sensors.  The green LEDs are the HRM.  The red LEDs are the SpO2 monitor.

[Bowbowqueen]

I agree. My next device will not be Fitbit for only this reason and would recommend people to purchase only a device which measures spo2 24/7. If you have a heart failure/myocarditis then your heart cannot pump enough blood (oxygen) into veins when under a "stress", which means your spo2 levels drop - so you need to be able to measure spo2 levels when you are awake and moving to figure out if there might be something wrong, measuring spo2 when sleeping is not useful at all.