7 Day Average on main screen next to daily step count

[SevenDayAve]

I posted this in the ios app store, but was told i need to post here too.  would like to see 7 day step average on main screen with daily step count.  this is likely a more meaningful number for many users like me since the daily count can fluctuate greatly depending upon what is going on with me that day.   i would also like to suggest that developers look at the reviews in the app store so we dont need to double post here.  thank you

[Odyssey13]

Hello and welcome to the forums @SevenDayAve

That is a great idea. There are days when I'm not taking as many steps or not wearing my Fitbit and it does bring down that seven day average.

Good idea!

[LuciaFitbit]

@SevenDayAve thank you for sharing this suggestion with us. It would be interesting to have the average amount of steps for the last 7 days, in order to compare it with the current day. Let's hear what others think. 🙂

[SevenDayAve]

You are welcome. I feel it is a more meaningful number.

Sent from my iPhone

[rollingaverage]

This feature would make Fitbit so much more useful. I was running a hack that sort of did this for me, back when IFTTT was free: IFTTT would take a daily report from Fitbit and put the data into a Google Sheet, and then the Sheet would produce rolling averages. But where I come from I call that work. My life would be so much easier if Fitbit did this natively.

This is especially true with workouts. I found through personal observation that if I set a goal of exercising at least two days out of the previous five I enable patterns that help me stick with plans. But I can’t effectively track this if the count is resetting every week. To really enable this would require a different functionality (“enable user to set goal of x days out of trailing y days” where x and y are both variables as opposed to “enable user to set goal of x days out of trailing y days” where y is always 7), but if I could only use last 7 I’d set for 3 out of 7 and live with it.