Voice cues

[herminda]

How do I get my Versa3 to notify me every mile when I walk. I’ve tried everything to make the voice cues work to no avail.

[LZeeW]

Hello @herminda and welcome to the Community.  The Versa 3 only gives vibration cues when you use the Exercise app on the device itself.  Voice cues are available when you track the walk from the app, using a feature called MobileRun.  This is an older Fitbit feature, one for trackers that don't have exercise apps.  A major drawback of this feature is that you don't get heart rate data in your exercise details. 

[herminda]

Thanks LZeeW for the reply. Could you tell me how to get to vibrate?

[LZeeW · Accepted solution]

@herminda  Here are the steps:

• Open your Exercise app and select Walk
• Swipe up on the tiny "^" at the bottom of the screen
• Look for Laps and tap on Automatic
• Select Miles, set the spinning wheel to 1.0 and tap the screen to confirm
• Swipe down until you get to the start screen

That's it.  Your Versa 3 will vibrate when you reach each mile.  You will see a screen for 10-15 seconds or so with your split detail.  You will also see your splits detail in the summary on the screen before before you End on the screen.

[herminda]

Thank you so much LZeeW . That was very helpful. Can you also give me directions using the phone app for voice cues?

[LZeeW]

@herminda   Here are the steps:

• Tap on the "+" sign on the Exercise tile on the Fitbit app
• Make sure the toggle is set to TRACK
• Your screen might be different from mine if you use an Android phone
• Your choices are Walk, Run, and Hike -- set to Walk
• Then next line says Laps off -- tap on it and toggle to on
• You will see different option for the cue type, frequency, and volume
• Make your choices, then go back
• This is a very old feature and the Music Control might only work with stored music, not streaming music
• The start/stop are pretty self explanatory.

There is one thing you MUST do if you use this feature.  All of this tracking is done from the phone -- this is an older feature that doesn't "know" there is a Fitbit on the account -- my son is an experienced software engineer and he can explain it.  If you are going to use this feature, you must turn off walk in your auto exercise list.  Do the following.  Tap on your profile picture > Swipe up to Activity & Wellness > Exercise >Walk > toggle auto-recognize to OFF.  Your walk will get counted twice, unless you turn this off.

Like I wrote, if you use this feature, you will see "Not enough heart rate data" in the exercise details.

[herminda]

Thank you so much LZeeW for taking the time and helping me. I couldn’t find any of this info anywhere. Appreciate it.

[herminda]

LZeeW you are very helpful. Thank you for taking the time and helping me. I could never find this info any where. Appreciate it.

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