Ability To Edit Manually Logged Exercise Type

[TryingToMakeIt]

I'm not sure what has changed, but it seems that I am no longer able to Edit Activities.  This seems like a huge inconvenience.  Sometimes having to enter actvities can be annoying, but it's helpful to have that feature.  What is annoying is that if I make a mistake, I am unable to correct it without having to delete and restart.  I bought this Fitbit to make tracking my exercise easier, not more difficult.  I am trying to find reasons to continue using it, but making tracking harder is not helping.  Please fix!  Thanks so much!

Moderator Edit: Added Labels/Title for Clarity

[redwoodlover]

I don't understand why this has been documented for 4 years now and is still not functional? Because, yes, I still forget to hit stop on the exercise timer. I wouldn't need to use it at all except that none of my steps get counted when I'm pushing a stroller... 

[c0rnmuffin]

I'm super happy to see that I can edit the timing of my workouts now.  Thanks!  I'll still throw in a vote for editing the exercise type.  At least I should be able to edit the name of "Workout" more than one time in case I accidentally select the wrong one the first time.  I've also accidentally set my Charge 2 to the wrong workout type a few times (those buttons can get a bit skippy) and it's really annoying.

[SantiR]

Hi everyone, thanks for sharing this suggestion. We're always striving to enhance Fitbit products and services, and we appreciate all of the input we receive from our customers. We do not currently have plans to release this feature. You can learn more about how Fitbit decides what suggestions get released in our FAQs located at the top right box of the Feature Suggestions Board screen. For now, we will leave this suggestion open for votes (and closed to comments) so that we can continue to track community demand over time. Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback with us and we will let you know if anything changes.

[SunsetRunner]

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@SantiR wrote:

Hi everyone, thanks for sharing this suggestion. We're always striving to enhance Fitbit products and services, and we appreciate all of the input we receive from our customers. We do not currently have plans to release this feature. You can learn more about how Fitbit decides what suggestions get released in our FAQs located at the top right box of the Feature Suggestions Board screen. For now, we will leave this suggestion open for votes (and closed to comments) so that we can continue to track community demand over time. Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback with us and we will let you know if anything changes.

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Can you please clarify? This feature was requested years ago. At some point a couple of months ago it was released for iOS devices, and a different thread was created for Android users (a decision that did not make any sense, but we are not going back there).

Now, on the Android thread you copy and pasted (or the other way around) exactly this same message. I understood that this feature was not released for Android, since it had been released for iOS already. But now you posted this here too, so, what's exactly going on? Have you removed this feature from iOS also? Or are you meaning that iOS users will keep this feature but not Android users?

[Dexterity]

I just changed from iPhone to android and found that I can't edit exercise start and end time or type of exercise if I pushed the wrong button. I need to use this function at least once a week and I fail to understand why the apps for different devices have different functions. This is a very important feature to me. If I can't track correctly, what's the point of tracking at all (or using a Fitbit)? When I search I find it's not a planned feature. So you have to use iPhone to have all necessary features? Very disappointed.

[Lambo54]

I think I'm right in saying if I add time or otherwise edit an activity, previously recorded by my Flex 2, that it does not add steps or other metrics to my daily activity on the dashboard. This happens when sometimes I forget to put my Flex 2 having carried out a chore requiring me to not wear it. It would be better if the software accommodated such a situation.

[PlantMuncher]

There should be a way to edit the length of my workout after it's recorded. For example, I had a 20 minute workout this morning but forgot to end the workout on my versa until about 15 minutes later. This obviously skews my results and shows a slower average heart rate ect. There should be a way to edit the length of the workout after it's recorded and then have the stats recalculated based on the time left. I'm sure a lot of people have the same problem as it's very easy to forget to end the workout session. 

[hackysak]

I use exercise equipment at the gym. But can not log the type of exercise I am doing on a particular machine. I use a arm bike otherwise known as an upper body ergometer but the fitbit will only let me log it as Bike and I also use a recumbent bike in the gym and it will not let me log it as such. Bike seems to be my only option. You need to update you exercise option to reflect all the equipment in a gm like the Nautilus equipment. Otherwise the calories burned and other information logged will not be accurate.I have the fitbit charge 3

[hackysak]

If you can not make it so we can log all types of exercise from a drop down list, then make it so we can manually log the type of exercise and let the fitbit log the heart rate during the time of exercise logged along with how many calories burned. The log is not accurate if the information is limited to what the fitbit choses to allow us to list the type of exercise.

[hackysak]

My suggestion is a simple one to fix. Just update your exercise logging to allow us to type in any kind of exercise or ad all the exercise equipment in a gym to a drop down list. Manually would be the easiest way to do this as long as the heart rate is loge for the time being logged for the exercise.

[Mandaconda]

I have the Fitbit Alta HR and use the app on Android. Currently I do not see a way to edit an activity that I've put in manually. It would be nice to be able to do that because I often mess up the date and have to go in, delete the submission and start over. You can edit exercises that come in through the tracker, so not sure why you can't edit the manual ones. 

[Dragonmaid]

I would like to be able to change an exercise type logged on my Versa to a different type. I've given up hope on getting a "Horseback Riding" exercise added so I always choose "bike" so I can get a GPS map. I'd like to be able to change it in the app later to Horseback Riding.

[Colecanning]

I am unable to edit the exercise type of logged exercises on my Android phone. I was able to do this from my iphone. I thought Google purchased Fitbit, isn't this embaressing? I cannot really fathom why this wouldn't be allowed. 

[EdsonFitbit]

Hi @Colecanning, thanks for taking the time to share your feedback about editing the exercise type of logged exercises on Android phones. Currently, this option is available on iOS devices only.

This feature suggestion already exists so I’ve moved your post here as it is not currently planned.

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @TryingToMakeIt and thanks for sharing this suggestion, which has received votes from other community members. I’m happy to let you know that this suggestion has been picked up internally at Fitbit and is being considered by our team. This suggestion will either remain ‘Under Consideration’ until released, or else move to ‘Not Currently Planned’ if it’s not viable right now. Further updates will be posted here.

Please remember that if a suggestion is chosen for development, it can take some time before updates are available or a release is finalized, so thanks in advance for your patience. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs. Fans can continue to vote for this feature suggestion while it is under consideration.

[Jay8]

I'm glad that this is under consideration again, I can't believe this has been a topic since 2014. It's clearly something that's important to people.

I would love to be able to edit my activities. When you're working out so many things can go wrong, you accidentally forget to start it, forget to end the activity, or in my case my fitbit often misses lengths while swimming.

In busy pools, sometimes you just have to wait for others. I get that the fitbit might miss a length here or there if you're not swimming consistently or not swimming at least 6 lengths in a row (that's the minimum for accuracy I believe). That's okay, but at least let me edit the exercise and add those lengths so that I have accurate data. At its core, that is what a sports watch should do.

I know this feature was available in the past, I'm not sure why it was ever removed at all.

[rod1]

My company's benefits provider invites users to connect their Google Fit
account "to get personalised health advice". Now that fitness tracker data
is used by benefits/insurance companies, making that data editable by the
user means the data is no longer reliable to use for insurance purposes
because people can then fake their health data. I don't see them
re-enabling this feature - ever.

[bynken]

Enabling the ability to shorten the time span of a session, wouldn't really
enable any kind of cheating. 😋

[Tsuzee]

So it's OK for companies to use incorrect health data because the tracker didn't properly record the session right? The edits can be marked and tracked as such. This isn't a difficult feature and anyone who really wanted to hack it would anyway, edits or no. A simple audit would reveal major fudging of numbers, since you wouldn't be able to change things like heart rate. If you're new data is well outside of your regular data that's a flag. Companies could distinguish between automatic and hand edited entries. They make plenty enough money to pay for that.

[rod1]

As you said, they can easily distinguish/flag and ignore any data. No
reason to assume they aren't already doing that for sessions that are too
long. So no motivation to change there.

Companies also won't spend money or resources on something that doesn't
provide sufficient return on investment. This request is a convenience for
users who make mistakes and don't learn to stop making them and/or who get
annoyed with bad data like I do (otherwise I wouldn't be in this thread).
We are likely not a large percentage of total users, so spending resources
on a small group would not be profitable.

Now if large numbers of people stopped using their products due to an
issue, that would quickly motivate them to do something about it.

However it's been literally years with no action, and we still use their
products with this issue, so it's clear it's not a priority to do it. If
they allow it someday, great, but I won't hold my breath for it.

[Tsuzee]

This is a feature that was removed. It isn't like they have to add this from scratch. As for mistakes, there are many reasons that it's wrong that are not mistakes. For anyone, like me when I first started supporting this, who live(lived) in an area with poor cell reception/GPS the tracker is often wrong. It will miss entire legs of biking / running exercise just because you lost or had bad service. Or when their software is just plain wrong, as seen in examples given throughout the thread. Should we just except that the company doesn't care? It took a long time but this finally got moved to under consideration. Now is the time to keep pushing.

[rod1]

When one realises that private companies are first and foremost in business
to make money and they do that by providing what *they* want to provide to
their customers, and that they really don't have to care what customers
want unless it can affect their profits (that's capitalism, whether you
like it or not), then decisions they make suddenly become comprehensible.

If you really need this (I see it as a nice-to-have), I suggest instead of
writing in a forum like this where relatively few people see it, instead @
the company on Twitter about this whole thread and how long it's been, and
link to it.

That's widely publicly viewed and bad PR is something most companies will
notice and do something about because that *does* affect their profits. 🙂

[boarder454]

I use android and am excited to see this feature request has been picked up under consideration!

[mclopez]

Please, bring the Edit activity feature back for Android and desktop! It's so annoying that you cannot shorten a workout if you accidentally started it too early or forgot to press Finish. Also not being able to rename the activity or manually entering calories. Editing content should be a basic feature in any app for anything. I don't understand why it was removed.

[Akira_Ratsura]

Smart Track doesn't work for my type of exercise, and I'm so busy working out I often forget to finish the logging on the watch when I'm done working out. I'd like to have the feature to shorten the time so it doesn't record me sitting or walking around as exercise too. Thanks!