How to turn off the "Daily Goal Progress" notification?

[YSu]

Hi, 

Is there a way to turn of the notification for daily goal? It's kind of a waste of battery to me.

Thanks!

Moderator edit: format

[DerrickS]

Hi @YSu and welcome to the Community!

For clarification, are you talking about Reminders to Move on Charge 2. If so, you can turn them off by following the instructions listed here.

Also, I would recommend these tips on how to improve your Charge 2's battery life.

Hope this helps!

[YSu]

Thanks for your reply.

I was refering to the daily goal (e.g. 10k steps). The fireworks and vibration seems useless to me.

I can "disable" it by setting a higher target, but it's not a perfect solution.

Thanks!

[Julia_G]

Hi, @YSu, you will indeed need to set a target you know you will not meet if you do not wish to receive the goal notification vibration and screen lights. (I expect the impact on the battery is fairly trivial -- it's pretty brief.)

[DerrickS]

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@Julia_G wrote:
(I expect the impact on the battery is fairly trivial -- it's pretty brief.)

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@YSu I agree with @Julia_G, the goal celebration that happens on the tracker when you meet your goal shouldn't have a huge impact on your battery.

I think that if you are trying to maximize your tracker's battery life, I would first recommend turning off "All-Day Sync". This will turn off background syncing your tracker and you can still sync your tracker by force syncing or opening the Fitbit App.

[emili]

or you can change your primary goal to one you are working towards more and are happy to see the notification that you did it. I have mine set to calorie burn. I don't meet that goal everyday, so when it goes off, I am like a toddler on Christmas morning.

[AlvaroFitbit]

@emili Thank you for the suggestion. I can reach my steps goals and still not reach my calories one. This should work for most users or you could even increase that goal but not modifying the one for steps or distance.

I'll be around!

[Danielle_UK]

I haven't met my calorie goal today but am about 50kcal off and want to go to sleep but I don't want to be woken up by the "celebration". Surely there must be a way to turn it off other than to change the goal? I'm happy with  the target I've set and don't want to change it but I've just not had a very active day and don't want to be woken up when I hit it as I know it counts calories when I'm sleeping. It's ridiculous that you can't turn it off when you can turn off all other notifications and reminders 

[Mocha.time.now]

I wear a fitbit flex and would love to have it not buzz on my wrist. How can I turn that feature off?

[JohnnyRow]

Daniellle, I had the same problem. Eventually I settled on setting steps as my primary goal, knowing they will not increase while I am in bed. And I found that they correspond fairly closely to calories if set correctly.  Not the best solution, I know, but how I managed it.

[Julia_G]

@Mocha.time.now, it is not possible to turn that off.  The only solution is to set a goal so high that you will definitely not achieve it.

[Oii]

Don't wear the watch at night when you don't want to be woken up by the "celebration". 

[Rich_Laue]

May i ask @Oii, do you have a question? 

[Nikitab]

I don't want to be unnecessarily distracted.  Please add ability to turn off goals. I don't want this. 

[roffels]

Please give users the ability to turn off this feature. I don't want my watch buzzing me at random times of the day. 

[rpitteng]

Yes, we need the ability to disable this feature.  I reached my step goal during a race and my watch vibrated.  I had to stop to see what the issue was.  It was very distracting.

A good design rule: EVERY notification should have the ability to disable.

[KangaRod]

ANother vote to please be able to disable this! I don’t understand why this isn’t  common sense thing.

 I’ll just set my goal to 30 floors because I am sick of getting woken up during my naps.

[jrvanwhy]

Yeah, I can confirm that being unable to disable these notifications is absurd. The vibrator on my Blaze is *extremely* obnoxious. I reserve that level of obnoxiousness for life-or-death notifications -- and none of fitbit's notifications are that important.

Fitbit, *please* allow us to disable these harrassments.

[AdvisorK]

I’ll take a crack at explaining why this can’t be disabled: Fitbit wants to be in your face, all the time.  Imagine someone with a calorie goal being told the options are:

- don’t sleep with it

- change your primary goal to something else

- set your goal so high that you could never achieve it.

absolutely ridiculous that we’re all stuck with this.  As my primary goal is steps, this has never been a problem.  But I have a lot of sympathy for people burning 60 calories an hour as they sleep and getting an unwelcome alarm near the midnight hour..

[vivomancer]

That you can't disable this feature speaks to terrible design.