Allow us to move or delete Cardio Load prompt

[BonBon7]

There is a new Activity called Cardio Load on my home page and I cannot move or delete it. I don't care about it. I want to see my Steps on the top of the list and now I can't see them because of this new Activity and the size of my iPhone mini. This is ridiculous.

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[CrazyDutchwoman]

I am 62. 63 tomorrow. I have been wearing my fitbit since 2019. I tried to achieve my goals which I have managed every day but since the cardio fitness challenge every day asking me to achieve 60 to 90 points it is getting too much. Last night I decided to remove my fitbit from my arm because it was not healthy anymore and there is no way to remove it. It can set a dangerous pattern for people like me always trying to get the goals.

[Bendymavis]

I know how you feel, I've had the same message popping up for last week
saying I'm not doing enough. I would say listen to your body , you know
when you need to rest and hard though it is ignore the message.
Keep smiling 😃

[Harry_Krinkle]

It's obvious at this point that Google has completely driven Fitbit into the ground. There is nothing Fitbit does that was not better before Google acquired it. It almost feels like they're trying to kill it on purpose.

Watch them come out with a Google Watch. Mark my words.

[Sbgoodgirl]

I agree with every comment here. This message is like gaslighting. I will work out hard and the next day, it tells me to slow down. The next day. I slow down, and the following day, it tells me I'm at risk for undertraining. 

I'm so proud of the work I'm doing, and I've improved so much. These messages are disincentivizing, not motivational. They're nagging and annoying. 

Fitbit needs to check out the Finch app, where you are encouraged and never discouraged with negative feedback. I don't need another Boomer mother trying to shame me into conforming to her wishes.

[Bendymavis]

They already have!

[Bendymavis]

Well, I thought I'd just be able to ignore it , but this morning I had 3 cardio messages pop up.

1 : You have been over training recently take it easy today.

2: You are on target with your training.

3: We have recalculated your cardio load score  from 0-147 to 0-157 this will help you remain on target for improvement. 

Now I'm fed up ,get a grip Google and sort it out 

[wcrosman]

I do not want to deal with cardio load. It is not valuable to me at my age. When I remove it from the screen however I still get messages about recommended cardio load for the day. I click the x on the message to remove it. Yet when I go back into the app later they display again.
Please remove these messages when cardio load is not displayed

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @Hfair. Thank you for your product feedback about being able to remove the Cardio Load prompt from the Fitbit app with us! We've found a similar request and merged yours with it. You can find it here. Please vote on the existing thread to help us track interest. To learn more about how Fitbit decides what product feedback is developed, visit our FAQs.

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @wcrosman. Thank you for your product feedback about being able to remove the cardio load prompts from the Fitbit app with us! We've found a similar request and merged yours with it. You can find it here. Please vote on the existing thread to help us track interest. To learn more about how Fitbit decides what product feedback is developed, visit our FAQs.

[Happymollierose]

I agree with everyone else. This feature is annoying and condescending. I want you be able to choose when to increase cardio, if I want to, are the moment I am injured and cannot do any high impact training so my cardio load target is never being achieved and is getting higher every day. Please make us able to turn off the distressing target pop up. It's not helpful to see how I am underachieving each time I open the app! 

[AntiochMrs.]

it’s annoying enough that even if I toggle off cardio load it still pops up.   But the worst part is that it seems to just have random suggestions.  Yesterday it told me that I had been maintaining fitness and to get 40 or 50 or 60 minutes or something like that. I had 240 minutes of activity yesterday and yet this morning it tells me I’m at risk of UNDERtraining? What the hell?

[Laura13Hearts]

I agree with everyone on thread.  Why is this mandatory??? And daily? For me it has nothing to do with why I use the app.  It's obnoxious.  Please allow us to disable!!!

[MarkEvans]

This bug ticket -- it is not a feature request, it is a BUG -- was opened in late December 2024. I can't recall the date that it was moved to "Reviewed by Moderator." In mid-March 2025, it was moved to "Under Consideration." Today, 5 MONTHS LATER, mid-August 2025, it is still Under Consideration. It is the #10-ranked item in Under Consideration. It is an UNBELIEVABLY EASY fix. Despite the clear value/effort tradeoff, it isn't done.

So, I stopped using Fitbit. I bought a Garmin Venu 3 a couple of weeks ago, and am very happy with it.

[post edited to comply with moderator]

[ladysadie9]

I agree, and I can’t even seem to X mine. Which makes me even move annoyed. I do weights workouts and running and cycle to work and still it’s telling me I am undertraining. It should definitely be optional and ideally on an opt in basis. I also feel that active minutes was enough tbh - I think cardio load is a un needed extra. Are you trying to shame / blind us with science ? 

[seatan]

It is the most ridiculous thing that Fitbit has not removed the cardio load prompts - this thread alone is up to over 800 people who want it and it is just a small development fix. They just don’t care - I contacted to support and asked to speak to a manager to discuss they refused to put me through and told me I had to post here - told them wasn’t much point as hundreds of people have posted to remove and the do nothing 

[AltoWoman]

I have tachycardia - I have episodes where my heart beats abnormally fast.  Because of this, I will have days where I don't exercise AT ALL and the next day I get a message telling me I'm at risk for overtraining.  And yet, paradoxically, there will be days where I DO work out, and SOMEHOW the next day the Fitbit app will tell me I need to step it up because I'm at risk of undertraining.  

This is clearly neither accurate nor useful - WHY DO I HAVE TO SEE IT EVERY MORNING??

[Felicity9274749]

The pop-up for cardio load always makes me feel bad 😞 

[cylonvamp]

Me too, it really ruins the experience for me. I used to love using my Fitbit Versa 2. ☹️

[ratty_ace]

There are hundreds of comments, many of which describe the very real harm this causes in detail, but I think Felicity9274749 has summed it all up brilliantly - when I see it, I feel bad. They've implemented a feature that makes users feel bad. Isn't that enough of a reason to undo it?

[candace626]

Commenting again to say that it’s been months and I still find this feature to be awful, demotivating, and inaccurate. I’ve turned it off but still, once a week, I get a notification about how my “activity has been lower than usual!” This is regardless of the activity that I’ve done - I’m very happy with my current activity levels. I request the deletion of my cardio load data and it goes away… until the next week, when it pops up again. Not letting us fully disable a feature that many of us deem harmful is bizarre. Please consider adjusting this. 

[cylonvamp]

I work out 60 to 90 mins a day. I take a day off to recover. But that's not good enough. Saturday is usually my rest day. Can't do that though.  I've gone from 'over training'. to 'Under training'.  Seriously? I can't believe the removal of the cardio load feature is STILL UNER CONSIDERATION. I curse it, hit it the 'x' and then it comes right back up like a cursed zombie shambling along, Instead of growling for 'brains' it's growling 'cardioooooooo'  Clearly google doesn't care about our well being at all.  🧟🥺 

[Hfair]

 

okay now I feel like it’s just messing with me. Tell me how I’m supposed to do one zone minute but also 79 in the same day?? What on earth 

 

 

[judiloks]

I hate the cardio load messages, and the whole concept for that matter. The “NAG”doesn’t go away and stay away when you tap the x. The fact that Google hasn’t managed to fix this “bug” after so many months suggests they are deliberately seeking to make the whole fitbit platform unusable. The assigned cardio load goal for the day also appears to be utterly and ludicrously arbitrary. The cardio load values assigned on any given day seem to have no relationship to the actual efforts expended. Google took a good product in Fitbit and ruined it. Your programmers aren’t even able to handle the difference between metric and imperial measurements. Another permanent “bug.”

[Keiga]

Yes please allow this prompt to be disabled. I find it demotivating and unhelpful, as its suggestions don’t align with how I feel (this is the same reason I turned off the readiness score). I would have a better experience with my Fitbit app if I wasn’t forced to see this readiness prompt 

[Esso1962]

Get the insistent and totally redundant message off my fitbit screen! It is a total turn-off!