"Today" App is much less useful with OS 2. Please fix or allow me to revert back!

[Shield]

Just updated to the latest firmware today.  While I am indifferent about being able to swipe up for the "today" app - IMO it has a significant flaw.  Before I was able to re-order all of my "today" options and see ANY TWO I wanted at a time.

Busy getting steps?  I could put STEPS and HEARTRATE right above and below each other.

Doing stairs?  I could put heartrate and stairs visible at a quick glance (right next to each other).

Now the a single stat takes up the entire page!  Yes I can swipe right and see the distance and floors together, but I want to see heart rate and floors, or heart rate and steps.

I see you can move these around, but now the Top level groups are:

Group 1 - Steps   -  Distance/Floors / Calories/Active Minutes (all part of one group)

Group 2 - Active Hours

Group 3 - Heartrate - Resting HR

Any of the above take up the entire screen!!!  If you're trying to monitor your floors AND HR, you cannot do it without swiping.  I need to be able to pull the watch up and quickly see where I am.

Does this make sense?  Please can I revert back to the previous firmware?  Or make the old TODAY available again?

Shawn

[SteveH]

That does make sense and I agree that it would be nice if we could change the sequence within group 1.

Perhaps you could create a feature suggestion for this at https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Suggestions/idb-p/features

There isn't an option to go back to the old firmware or "today" I'm afraid.

Perhaps a way round the problem is to choose a watch face that has all the data we want so we don't have to use the today function. 

[TKCMuzzer]

Your lucky, after the update swiping up does absolutely nothing on my Ionic. I have no today available at all on my watch, swipe or app.

[Shield]

Only in today's world are we suggesting requesting a feature that we had 2 days ago and for the last 9 months.

Since my wife and I both have Ionics, what *I* did was swap devices with her last night.  Yep, huge pain in the **ahem** especially with music on mine, but I own this device to help me stay fit.  I'm not here to further their development life cycle and spend my life submitting already existing feature requests / work through their shortsightedness on forced change.

There is no perfect watch face that shows the stairs + HR as visibly as the former TODAY screen (both at the same time) or a simply swipe up/down to show steps + HR.  You can find clock faces that show one or the other, but none as easily readable.  This is a basic function IMO of the watch; to show my current activity.  Having music playlists and streaming is great, but when core functionality is removed I have to question if anyone thought this through.

[Mjmeier1]

Mine is doing the same thing. No response swiping I at all

[Giampi71]

I can definitely try to design a clockface as you need. PM if you want to provide me some additional details.

[Shield]

I appreciate that.  I view the face as something to use 24/7 as a watch / step counter.  Then there's the modes I prefer when I'm working out, which I either use today or one of the exercise modes.

However if you're offering - the face I use the most is "ActivStatFace".  To make it perfect, make the time a tad smaller and dark blue (or adjustable colors) and replace the calorie counter with # of floors climbed.

That would be amazing!

[Schinks]

Something I'm not happy about with the new Today app is that it does not stay open.  If I swipe down to view any of the screens in the Today app and then look again a few minutes later, it has reverted back to the clockface.  Before the update, the today app would stay put and the scroll position the same until I hit the back button.  It's a real pain to have to swipe down every time I want to see a screen in the Today app.  Is there a setting that would disable automatic closure of the app?

[Shield]

I am happy I swapped Ionics with my wife.  The whole key IMO to this thing was the fact it'd stay on any screen you set it on.  What a pity.

[SunsetRunner]

Schinks, Unfortunately, there is not.  Maybe that will be changed in the future.

[Schinks]

That's too bad... I want the old Today app back, I've definitely lost
productivity with the new design.

[jhay]

I agree completely with you!  the new OS 2.0 is a step backwards.  I hope the fitbit development team in charge of this latest release sees this post and release a 2.1 update with the swipe right feature being brought back.  the "new" swipe up from the bottom is a waste of time.