Able to adjust exercise duration on Fitbit app

[SPGmd]

Since the Fitbit app was updated back in Oct, you can no longer change the length of a workout after the fact. I manually started a walk on my fit but sense, but forgot to stop it until several hours after I had gotten home. When I tried to manually edit the length of the work out in the app it does not save the new time.

[LizzyFitbit]

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[wpifarmer]

There is no way to edit the end or duration of a workout after it has completed. I can only "delete" it which erases all the heart rate data.

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @wpifarmer, thanks for taking the time to share this product feedback about having the option to edit the workout duration on the Fitbit app with us. This product feedback was already requested on this board, so I’ve moved your post here. Please support this product feedback by adding your vote, this helps our developers to keep tracking its popularity and demand over time.

[MiniSumo]

This inability to trim excess data from an exercise activity is frustrating, I'd use this several times a day!

Almost every walk or cycle logged has time before I remember to stop the logging.

[Nuisance338]

What makes the removal of this feature worse is that the app allows you to edit the duration, only for it revert after a few seconds. If you're going to remove the functionality then the duration field should be readonly. 

[grumpysgal]

I don't see anywhere to vote for this thread but I agree that we should be able to edit the duration. I start my workout manually and sometimes forget to stop it when I'm finished then realize some time later that it's still going which really skews the stats on my workout.

[RideWithEricG]

Unbelievable!  I was able to trim, or reduce, the duration of an activity through my Android Fitbit app until about 2 days ago!  Now I get the same awful experience that others mentioned:  The app allows me to edit an activity's duration, but as soon as I save the edit, it reverts back to the originally-recorded duration!

Let me repeat:  Ever since I got my first Fitbit (a Versa 4) in Jan 2024 until three days ago (20-Aug-2024), I routinely edited the duration minutes of recorded activities and then viewed the recalculated Avg BPM which reflected the shorter duration.  But I lost this ability to edit duration about 2 days ago.  I'm not aware of any recent update to my Fitbit app for Android.

[YoAdrian26]

Does anyone know if Fitbit has plans or an update coming allowing us to edit an actitivity duration like we used to be able to do?   This is beyond frustrating to not bet able to trim off excess time /duration from a workout and have it show correctly.  

[Nayhaych]

This needs to be fixed!

I can still edit the start and finish time yet the overall duration doesn't change. 
Leaving me with a work out from 9:30am-10:30am yet a 3 hour duration (because I initially forgot to stop my workout) this skews all the workout stats & data.

I often forget to end my workouts on my fitbit and have always been able to correct it after the fact. 

[JanetB1]

I am having the same problem.  I did lots of reboots and I can now edit start / finish time and see the correct heart rate on the graph, but the exercise duration remains unchanged, and still shows a completely wrong time. Really frustrating, although at least I can now see heart rate data I suppose. I have clicked on the thumb 👍 on the original post, which I presume is how I vote that I’m having the same issue? That advice could have been clearer! 

[LMB57]

It is frustrating that you can't alter the length of a work out. is so easy to forget to stop it. My fitbit must sense I've stopped!

[FireByFriction]

FIX THIS - why are you allowed to edit and save if it just reverts to the old value?  Being able to trim duration is surely a must have. 

[MimiJong]

Seriously, I can't believe that this hasn't been fixed yet. I can understand you prioritize feature requests by votes but this is an actual bug - edited duration isn't saved - and it's embarrasing that you don't address it 😠

[Meeggs]

Please just change back Fitbit how it used to be!! For all the reasons mentioned in the chat it is inconvenient that you can not change the time of a work out, especially when you forget to end it. Now you can't even track a previous workout with valid stats too if you forgot to start a workout, it just gives some generic details which is pointless. If things are not changed soon, I would rather ditch Fitbit all together. This is extremely frustrating. 

[msemmajean]

Adding my name into the mix that in March of 2025 I am also frustrated that I can update the exercise duration. Took a walk and forgot to end my workout and now it says I took an hour and ten minutes to take a half mile walk instead of the 24mins it actually took me. 

[msemmajean]

I CAN'T* update the time. Stupid autocorrect.