New Ionic software is horrible

[Profswitzer]

Where do I even begin. Let's move the exercise button from the bottom to the top for no apparent reason. Also, we don't like that you can't swipe up from the bottom (you can swipe the other three directions), so let's add that -- and then let's take away swiping from the left. Speaking of which, a quick swipe of the left was all I needed to adjust notifications or see my batter life. Now I have to hold down the left button, swipe to the right, and I still can't see the battery.

Want to see how many steps you have left this hour? Before, a quick press of the top button would do it. Now it's turn on, swipe up, wait, swipe up one more time.

Stupid, stupid, stupid changes that make it take more swipes and presses to do anything I wanted to do. This sucks and I wish there were a way to change it back. Please, please, please tell me there's a way to do that.

[SunsetRunner · Accepted solution]

No, there is not a way to go back, Profswitzer.

The exercise button is wherever you want it to be. Lower right button opens  app located at lower left of first page of apps.  Upper right button opens app at upper left of app page.  You can locate the apps wherever you want on the page.

Swipe up and the battery info is at the top of the screen.

[N8teGee]

You can reassign the buttons to open different apps, the top button will open the app in the top left corner of the first page and the bottom button will open the app in the bottom left of the first page. You can choose which apps you want in those positions by long pressing an app icon and dragging it there to replace whatever was originally there.

To view battery life just swipe from the bottom up from the clock face, not too much difference from swiping from the left. 

I agree that some of the other options and screens can now take some effort to get to, but I'm sure we will quickly get used to it. I'm quite enjoing the new UI. Now that the foundations are set, hopefully fitbit can refine things further, maybe even letting us customise things a bit. 

[N8teGee]

Beat me to it @SunsetRunner! 

[supersmart01234]

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@Profswitzerwrote:

Where do I even begin. Let's move the exercise button from the bottom to the top for no apparent reason. Also, we don't like that you can't swipe up from the bottom (you can swipe the other three directions), so let's add that -- and then let's take away swiping from the left. Speaking of which, a quick swipe of the left was all I needed to adjust notifications or see my batter life. Now I have to hold down the left button, swipe to the right, and I still can't see the battery.

Want to see how many steps you have left this hour? Before, a quick press of the top button would do it. Now it's turn on, swipe up, wait, swipe up one more time.

Stupid, stupid, stupid changes that make it take more swipes and presses to do anything I wanted to do. This sucks and I wish there were a way to change it back. Please, please, please tell me there's a way to do that.

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You could factory reset and ignore the updates.

[N8teGee]

When you do a factory reset you will be forced to update to the latest firmware during the setup process. There's no way to roll back. 

[supersmart01234]

@N8teGeewrote:

When you do a factory reset you will be forced to update to the latest firmware during setup process. There's no way to roll back. 

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I did it once on accident....I dunno how

[Profswitzer]

Thank you for clarifying that! Swapped the apps and now exercise is on the bottom where (I think) it should be. Still wish the Today app would show up as an app so I could have it on the top button and not have to swipe/wait/swipe to get the hourly steps. But I'm a little less irritated thanks to you!

[MissUrka]

Not a fan of the swipe up just to see battery life. There is a pretty significant delay compared to the old swipe right. 

[Giampi71]

There are quite many clockfaces that show the battery left for much faster visualization.

[MissUrka]

I would prefer to keep the clock face I have set. But I might try one of them in the mean time. I am having other issues since the update as well so this complaint was more out of frustration.

Thank you for the suggestion. I will check out other faces. 

[SunsetRunner]

I am looking to move back to OS1, as you say the changes are horrible and usability is down. I bought my Ionic with OS1 and was very pleased with it and now I just don't like it at all. I don't see why "Today" has to be a built in app replacing where the notifications were (???), I don't see why a swipe-right has to be replaced with press-and-hold of a button, then swipe-right does nothing. I want to reset my watch to factory defaults (as I bought it) and NOT be forced to install OS2 during that process. I think I'll send the Ionic back to the manufacturer to get it fixed, it doesn't work like I bought it and I cannot remedy it myself.

Good post, totally agree.

[supersmart01234]

For some reason, I think I've managed to avoid the update whenever I first got it. I think I force quit when the there's a new update screen came up. I'm not willing to Factory Reset my Fitbit right now so maybe someone else can try it.

Cheers!