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Fitbit devices owner since 2017. Just setup Charge 5. Ugh...
Give me clock with all stats. Where's your code? Will happily fix for you.
The current overly whimsically designed clocks seem to be optimized for marketing purposes. Scrolling through the available clocks didn't bring me joy, they aroused rage.
Dear FitBit, optimize for your Customers primary scenarios, not Ads.
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Returning my Charge 5 if no clear action being taken with committed date.
I just bought one of these for Black Friday and the clock faces are one of the biggest disappointments. The available faces are dreadful. I know it's a thin watch face, but putting the hours and minutes on separate lines is horribly confusing at a glance. I might get used to it, but I'd more likely go insane during the transition period.
There's one basic clock face and you can't even change what metric displays by default. I want to show my steps as my default metric, not my active minutes, but there's no way to do it.
The available Charge 5 faces seem to focus more on appearance than practicality. If I want a watch strictly for appearance, I'm not looking in the direction of a smart watch. I want a fitbit for practical purposes. The slash face comes closest to what I want, but why mess it up with the slightly tilted stats box that does nothing but obscure the view of the clock? I would like to see a selection of simple faces based on the ability to more easily track metrics (again, the reason this watch exists).
I bought this watch for my elderly dad who use Charge 2 daily. He is 80 years old with history of mild heart attack and early symptom of alzheimer. He often got lost in various watch menus, so i disabled all unnecessary menus and make HRM the default face, which is all that he needs.
I was hoping charge 5 would have been an upgrade with brighter amoled display since he has to use reading glass to read charge 2 display. Guess I was wrong. There is no option to disable unnecessary menu. No option to make HRM with big fonts the default face.
I cannot believe that there isn't just a simple watch face, or at least one with the stats like people are asking, or a B/W version. Not everyone wants to deal with these goofy colors! I just want a classy simple option like my charge 3 and not a SINGLE clock face fits the bill. Please fix this!
The colours are awful. Why are almost all of them this burnt orange? There's very little variety when it comes to colour. All I'm interested in seeing on my tracker is heart rate and steps, and it's really annoying to have to scroll through five items to get back to what I want to see, especially when it switches on me when I open the screen.
It would seem, that you can determine the most popular clock faces from your wide range of fitness trackers. Shouldn't those previous "winners" be available on one of your newest releases?
Really, these literally all look the same (well okay there are two analog faces).
Why not just give the community the ability to design clocks like on the Sense and Versa? Seems to me would be the easiest solution to provide people with both more customization and a wider variety of clocks to choose from.
I'd like a face with the date, time, HR and battery level in either a white, or customizable color palate. I really don't like the color options! I don't think that's asking a lot. I downgraded from the Versa 2 to the Charge 5 because I needed the ECG, but didn't like how big and uncomfortable the Versa was (so the Sense wouldn't be any better). I knew I was losing features, but didn't realize the faces would be so bad.
I'd really love a Charge 5 version of Moment, Spectrum, or Simple. These are clean, easy to read faces that should be easy to modify for the Charge 5's tall, skinny face!
I see people commenting and I think I'm realizing that "Reviewed by Moderator" means they will no longer look at this thread. New threads instead of comments?
I am disappointed with the clock faces available for the Charge5. They are useless. The only one that shows some stats but not all without paging thru them is on a diagonal and partially obstructed. It’s so disheartening to be excited about getting a new fitness tracker to be immediately disappointed with it’s appearance and usability. Let’s get going on some new clock faces. I have had my tracker for 3 months and I still feel dissatisfied with it. That’s not right!
Have to agree with the comments on this thread. The colours chosen for Charge 5 faces is awful. Would really love some options that aren't so kiddish. Maybe before you guys push new designs on the app do a survey on social about potential faces and let the audience choose. Waiting for less gawdy options eagerly.
Same feeling here, just opened my new Charge 5 and all the clock faces suck. The programming required to make these should be pretty simple and modular. 1. Traditional faces needed. 2. Rotated faces needed. 3. All stats showing, or a single tap to get to all stats needed. 4. Why not a face designer for users to make their own?
So unhappy with all the modernist looks and slants that cut crap off. We need function over form!
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Also, how do we reply to comments on here? I see a report option, but no reply.
Please can we have more clock faces for Charge 5? I've upgraded from the Charge 2 and so disappointed that there hasn't been a lot of changes. I've voted on Buckinster's post, as recommended by the moderator, so fingers crossed this gets actioned . . . . .
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