This is a fairly recent development, but it makes it hard to believe what the tracker is telling me. For the last week, I’ve noticed that past days’ totals — particularly step counts — have been “adjusted”, in some cases by 2000 or more steps. They were correct at the time, but once the calendar rolled over I got a whole bunch of “bonus steps”. In one case (Labor Day) it put me over the finish line for my goal by over 2100 which I actually missed by about 1700 steps. On a couple of other days, my 17,000 to 18,000 jumped up to over 20,000.
But today, I noticed for the first time that the App was showing about 120 more steps than the tracker, and I have to wonder where the extras came from. I don’t have any other apps feeding data to it via API, and I’m not even sure if I can add any data manually (like Apple Health will let you do), so where did this come from? If it were the other way around (tracker showing more than the app) it’d be easy to understand — just sync it now, or wait for it. But unless the app is predicting what I’ll do next, there’s nothing connected to it that would give it any reason to think I had more steps than I do.
Just now, the app added about 120 more steps (12,267 - 12,148) to its count while all I did was sit here typing. It’s also showing 2204 calories burned while the tracker says 2158.
I get that I’m using a reconditioned old model (Charge 2) but my problem really isn’t with the tracker (this time) because what it’s telling me I can believe. And it’s also not adding steps while I sit here not stepping. But it’s the after-the-fact increases that bother me most, because I don’t know what effect they’ll have on my trend lines. And the whole point of this is to measure the deltas over time so I know if what I’m doing is working or not.
