Add more swimming stats (lap times, elapsed time, distance or length) on screen

[adadi]

Upgraded from Ionic to Versa 2. Very disappointed with Swim tracking. Versa 2 lost the ability to keep track of elapsed laps. I have to count manually and that defeats the purpose of a fitness tracker. I was told this is working as designed. I will be returning the Versa 2 to Fitbit until this functionality is added. Going back to Ionic. Need the ability to customize Swim stats by:
- Completed Laps
- Elapsed Time
- Heart Rate   (vote here!)

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[Chrisroper_02]

Can you get each lap timed. Lap tracking and timing works well so hopefully an easy update to include individual lap times

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[Norvs]

I hope the Fitbit application can show the swimming lap time instead of calorie.

[BD222]

Lap times appear on ionic but are not transferred to historical record in the Fitbit app.  This should be an easy feature to add. Lap times are already available for runs.  Tracking calories per lap seems to provide little value so replace with lap

times.

[Elliefan]

 nice to have a lap counter when swimming so you don't forget how many laps you've done

[Norvs]

@Elliefan Lap counter is already showing but once you sync your Ionic to Fitbit App, it will show you the lap and calories burned instead of timestamp per lap. However, if you need to monitor the lap count during the actual swimming, you can set the Pool Length and show cues automatically.

[Elliefan]

Hi,

I have the flex 2 not Ionic and this doesn't have a lap counter which is why I have suggested it.

[SunsetRunner]

It's very frustrating that the Ionic shows lap times, but the web dashboard / iOS app / Android app do not. The calorie counts shown on the the web dashboard / iOS app / Android app are pretty much useless. Exercise watches from other vendors (e.g. Gamin) show useful swim information in their web dashboards / mobile apps.

[MarcelBK]

That’s an interesting idea and could be useful, thanks for sharing this suggestion.

[meeshmeeshmeesh]

This is a definitely needed feature. Should be quite easy as the lap times are already tracked on the watch - it just doesn't currently get transferred to the app for recording and display (and instead the app shows calories burned per lap - an utterly useless metric for training). 

[Dirk74]

Essential feature to improve training.

Splits, lap times, stroke style and SWOLF.

[duffp]

Since getting a Fitbit Ionic when they first launched just over 6 months ago, I have been astonished at the level of progress the Garmin watches have improved their training monitoring for swimming. This includes GPS tracking for ocean swimming. I like all the additional features Fitbit offers, however if Fitbit can not improve its swim training features - even just for lap time splits (swimming is my no.1 exercise) - then I think I will go down the Garmin route.

[sppsl]

lap time lap time lap time please! why would you need to know calories burnt per lap? this is a useless feature!

[RazzleTom]

Please add swim lap times like it is done with running (mile splits) . Should be an easy add. I just had my first swim of the year and need to improve for a race in 6 weeks. Let's do it!

[elepolt]

Adding my voice for the necessity of lap times on the dashboard instead of calories.

[colopi31]

Difficult to understand why lap times are not transferred into the Fitbit application when they are available and shown at the end of the swiming session on the watch. They are then replaced by the calories per lap which is completely useless.

And without talking about the lack of number of movements and SWOLF... Poor compare to Garmin.

[hughstevenson]

Please can we have the swim lap times feature

[Cparsons27]

Bought the Ionic to track swimming, very disappointed with the lack of features, most of all the very basic reporting of lap times!

Will have to move to Garmin if is not updated soon.

[LouisUhler]

Add swim time splits please

[fueledbycoffee]

Echoing all the others let us access all.the data via the app.  I wear glasses so I cant read the lap split times on the watch when I am.done. .

[Meg22]

This is a definitely needed feature! And it should be quite easy as the lap times are already tracked in the Versa itself - it just doesn't get transferred to the app. Instead the app shows calories burned per lap - an utterly useless and stupid metric for training! PLEASE ADD THE LAP TIME FUNCTION FOR SWIMMING!!

[Versaswimmer]

I bought Versa for all my family and now heading to the store to return them all because of no supporting at all about swim lap time record. Since the unit already has internal data they can easily add the funtion but unfortunally I did not see any progress at all for last couple of months. So disappointed. Fitbit, remember that you are not only drop your current customers but lost stock holders.

[johnsutcliffe]

If you can just put a table of lap number and lap time in the app that would be great. 

[Hashibot]

Seriously, Fitbit, how is this that hard to update after requests have been on this site for a year? I have the Ionic, love it for the most part, but not transferring and being able to look at lap times in the app or web interface or even in the watch itself after you've completed the activity? That's pretty aggravating, especially since I can see all of that for running and cycling. Can you please make this update???? 

[Shubie]

Hi, I agree completely. A lap time display in the app would be much more insightful than calories burned.  Please could this feature be added to the app.

As an aside, I note that there are a number of forums on this very subject, so there is clearly demand. I also noticed that yesterday one of these forums was closed with the comment to say that it has been decided that this feature won't be enabled. If this is the case, it would be great to understand why fitbit have taken this decision even though there is clearly demand for lap time output.

[Dhruvanand93]

It amazes me how a leading smartwatch can't add a basic stat like this on their app (especially since it's being tracked on the device). The stats displayed from swims are anyway very limited.

Going to have to switch back to Garmin.