Activities Listing

[majdavid]

I am not sure where this goes. My name is David and this is my first post.  Sorry if it is in the wrong place or has been discussed before.  I was looking at my history of activities and notice swimming and biking. I cannot swim and I do not own a bike. My only activity has been walking. I am confused as to how my list came to include the listing and biking. Is there any way I can edit these? Thanks 

[Patrick]

I believe that you can just go into Device settings and switch them off. That is the way it is done on my platform (using a desktop) in any event.

[Heather-S]

@majdavid Yes, go into your Fitbit app on your phone.  Tap on the icon in the upper left hand corner and then select your Fitbit device.  Then look for Exercise Shortcuts.  Go into here and you can delete the ones you don't want and then add the ones that apply to you.  I will include some screen shots to show you.  🙂

 

 

 

[majdavid]

Is there any way to correct those listings of "swimming" and "biking" by changing them to "walk"?

[Heather-S]

@majdavid Yes, you need to follow my screen shots and then delete Swimming and Biking (swipe to the left on the tile) and then you can click on the blue "+ Exercise Shortcut" tile and you're presented with a list of options. 

[Heather-S]

 

[majdavid]

Say for example, if on June 1st, my listing said I swam for 30 minutes. And I didn't. But instead I walked, can I change that activity and have the steps recorded on my record. Or, are those steps gone forever?

[Baltoscott]

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@majdavid wrote:

Say for example, if on June 1st, my listing said I swam for 30 minutes. And I didn't. But instead I walked, can I change that activity and have the steps recorded on my record. Or, are those steps gone forever?

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Hi @majdavid.  Although the activity record for 'swimming' does not have a field for or show steps, the steps you actually walked during that time period were recorded into your daily total and lifetime totals.  So you won't lose or gain any steps by renaming that record 'walk'.  It is just incorrectly describing the activity it thought you were doing at that time.  I would just delete those records, and, as @Heather-S has described, remove them from the list of activities your Fitbit tries to automatically detect, so that they don't show up on the future.  

Side-note: My Fitbit sometimes incorrectly guessed I was on an elliptical when I was really walking or running (maybe I have really bad form!), but I don't think I've ever tricked into thinking I was swimming when wasn't.  Maybe you have a really silly walk? ;-).