What’s your swim mode recommendation?

[falgitko]

I’m in my first few weeks of my Fitbit inspire3. When I go swimming, do you recommend putting it on “swim exercise” mode or just leave it normal?

Not sure I understand the difference in how it would track.

I’m not an advanced swimmer by any means. Sometimes I do a few slow laps when my kids are in the pool or just tread water while I watch them do 100 handstands in a row.

[Gr4ndp4]

Hi, @falgitko welcome to the community, In my experience the recording of your activity is more or less the same if you start it via "exercise" or allow the auto-recognise feature to engage. If you use the latter you should get a heart rate reading as traditionally Fitbit disables HR for swims. If you wear reading glasses you'll find setting up the exercise on your Inspire 3 poolside is a bit fiddly and auto-recognize will be the best way. Don't forget to set up the pool length on your Inspire 3, go to "swim" in exercise on your wrist and see the little chevron at the bottom of the start screen, swipe up to set yards/metres and the pool length.

I hope this helps, enjoy your swimming.

Cheers

[AllanSyd]

i just engage the Waterlock.  This just stops the screen turning on when you are swimming - a power saving feature, as far as I can tell, and you can still turn it on to look at the time.