Why is my ioconic step count lower than my iphone

[SunsetRunner]

My Ioconic shows I have done 3864 steps but my IPhone shows almost 800 more steps. Why aren’t they the same?

[SteveH]

They are both approximations, limited by the nature of the technology. Which one do you think is more accurate? Could you do a test where, for example, you count out 200 steps and see what the fitbit & phone count?

If we know which one is least accurate we can look at possible causes.

[byankster]

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@SunsetRunnerwrote:

My Ioconic shows I have done 3864 steps but my IPhone shows almost 800 more steps. Why aren’t they the same?

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Just a guess here, but, I'm betting your Ionic (like a lot of fitness wearables) counts various arm movements as steps even though they aren't.  I don't have an Ionic but use the Charge 2 (which I really like).  I was putting a belt on a few weeks back and noticed the Charge 2 counting my arm movements as steps.  The way I look at steps being counted, as long as the wearable is counting consistently each day I'm happy.  Meaning its counting my activity even though it might not be steps. 

[SunsetRunner]

Even that being the case, my iconic should show a higher number than my IPhone but it’s almost 1000 steps lower count. Makes no sense.

Irmeli's IPad

[N8teGee]

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@SunsetRunnerwrote:
Even that being the case, my iconic should show a higher number than my IPhone but it’s almost 1000 steps lower count. Makes no sense.

Irmeli's IPad

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Have you tried changing the Ionic's settings to non dominant? This should make it a bit more sensitive and less likely to try and compensate for false steps. This might be why it's overall count is lower the the phone.

[bbarrera]

@SunsetRunner there are situations where wrist trackers fail to accurately count steps, for me it under counts when my arms aren't moving while walking -- usually when pushing a shopping cart around Costco. Folks mentioned the over counting scenario above.

For example at Costco I receive ~3000 steps on my iPhone, while my Fitbit wrist tracker only picks up a couple hundred steps.