The Inspire is too sensitive

[dwright1969]

The Inspire is way too sensitive.  It logs steps and activity even when driving.  I have it set for my dominant  hand while wearing on my non-dominant to reduce the sensitivity.  I now take it off my wrist when driving and today it logged 30 minutes of activity when driving into work sitting in my console.  I'm not driving down dirt roads.  As far as Fitbit is concerned driving counts as exercise.  Do I need to shut off the exercise auto-detect?  Will this help?  What I'd really like to see is the ability to shut the Inspire off.  I'm regretting the $100 I spent.

Moderator edit: subject updated for clarity 

[DavideFitbit]

Welcome to the Community forums @LorkOut, I'm sorry to see you've been having the same difficulty with the steps being tracked during a driving activity. 

As it was mentioned previously, unfortunately this is expected behavior at the moment and there is no way to prevent the device from tracking steps during this activity, besides the alternatives mentioned above. 

Are you having trouble with the device tracking more steps when performing other activities, or you were referring only to Driving? 

Keep me posted. 

[LisaNeal]

My mother has the new Inspire & I have the Charge 3. We have had the same activity level today but my steps are 3K less than hers. Is there an expected fix soon?

[Bluemoonfarm]

I am having the same problem as the others.  I HATE my new Inspire HR!  I had a Flex that seemed very accurate, but it died and I replaced it with the Inspire HR.  My primary reason for the Fitbit is to count steps, but this thing counts *every.single.movement*  of my arm as a step.  Wash my hands?  100 steps!  Put on makeup?  50 steps!  Ride in the car on the interstate (not dirt road) for a few hours?  5000 steps!  Type this reply?  200 steps!  I want to return this thing.  It is pointless.  None of the suggestions have helped.

[Bluemoonfarm]

Update: I just went for a 45 min power walk.  The device did count the steps, but inexplicably logged the "exercise" as only 17 minutes.  Sooo...it is overly sensitive in counting every minuscule movement of my arm as a step, but it can't recognize actual exercise?  I'm super bummed out with this device.

[Shannon247]

Hello,I just took mine back and got the charge 3 and have had no problems Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

[Smoffi]

Similar problem here.. yesterday I did 29 minutes on the elliptical...in reality I was crocheting!