Accuracy of Daily Step Count

[Kemper22]

I am puzzled by the number of steps my Inspire 3 counts on a daily basis, and it seems to be getting worse.  This evening while I cooked dinner (in a small kitchen) my fitbit recorded over 2,000 steps in less than an hour of cooking.  Is there any way I can adjust and/or update my fitbit to ensure better accuracy?

Thanks

[LZeeW]

Hello @Kemper22 and welcome to the Community.  Wrist worn trackers can both overcount and undercount your steps.  Cooking can involve a lot of arm movement that aren't steps.  One way to reduce these spurious steps is to change the sensitivity of tracker.  Most people wear their watches on their non-dominant wrist.  If you tap on your profile picture > Inspire 3 tile > Wrist and change the setting to Dominant, you can reduce these extra steps.  My hair stylist actually gave up on wearing a fitness tracker.  She could get 10,000 'steps' in a morning, just styling hair.

I also want to point out something that undercounts steps and that is pushing a shopping cart, stroller, etc.  There are posts from users who pushed a shopping cart in a very large store for an hour or more and got no steps recorded.