My Fitbit thinks I’m swimming when I take a shower

[sammybaines]

I noticed a few exercise records recorded On my app as swimming, when I haven’t been swimming for months.. I looked at the dates and times and turns out that I was in the shower at that time! Is the Fitbit just recording how long it gets wet for then assumes I’m swimming and burning a certain amount calories for that period of time? Because I doubt very much that I burn close to 100 calories in the shower! In fact I doubt I’d burn that much even if I was swimming as I’m a very slow ‘keep my hair dry’ kind of swimmer!

[AlvaroFitbit]

@sammybaines Welcome! It's nice to have you on board!

Let me help you with your Inspire detecting swim while bathing. Your device detects activities based on the motion on your arm. The automatic detection is a feature called SmartTrack. The movement you do while bathing may be interpreted as swim by your device and this is why you see these logs. You can simply delete them. Also it is suggested that you try to take the tracker off while taking a batch as this lets your wrist skin breath (it is up to you) and make sure you dry your device after this.

Let me know how it goes.