Will a higher stride length stop my ionic adding too many steps?

[guinessmcjo]

New to fitbit so sorry if this sounds like a stupid question... I've set up my ionic and finally everything is in working order apart from it telling me I've done 1000 steps when I've only done 300. will changing my stride length to a higher number possibly stop this happening so it doesn't detect as many movements from not walking? or is that not how it works? i know the only way to find out is to try it but just wondering if there is a way round this as id like my step count to be a lot more accurate! 

[WendyB]

If your arms are moving a lot it will count steps. All wrist models do this

If you change the stride then it wont be accurate when you do a walk or a run.