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Guess what. You still cannot recategorise exercises that were incorrectly identified by my fit bit device in either iOS or Android app. You have to delete and then add the new activity usually losing heart rate data that related to the exercise. Come on Fitbit please fix the apps instead of adding new features and leaving old features broken.
From what I’ve seen when that happens to me as long you put the exact same time frame for the manually entered the data will still be the same. If you exercise from noon to 3 like I do it doesn’t matter if you enter it yourself or if the Fitbit auto adds it it’s still be the same. I just change the exercise. Hope that helps.
I have tried this a few times and even taken a screen shot so that I could put the exact start and finish times but the heart rate data just does not carry over.
Often the Fitbit will automatically choose to label an activity, like when I'm playing tennis it will log as "aerobic." Which isn't a big deal because you can edit the activity afterwards, except when I do that it never saves.
Hi @Samijoy1106. Thank you for your product feedback about being able to edit the category of all exercises on 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.
My app no longer allows me to change or save the activity type, which is really frustrating. It's impossible to track my results when everything from badminton to boxing and baseball to archery is just labeled as "sport" or "aerobic." I hope for a comprehensive list or the ability to save the activity type myself.
I've been wondering why "shoveling" no longer appears as an option when I search to add an exercise. It was there a couple of weeks ago, but has now disappeared. Shoveling is definitely exercise!
Hi @Lacra. Thank you for your product feedback about being able to edit the exercise type on 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.
Looks like Fitbit are still ignoring the fact that they removed functionality that we want put back in the Fitbit app based on this reply from support. An excerpt from their email is below.
“Thank you for getting back to us with information.
We do apologize for the inconvenience.
For our Fitbit app, the latest update is 4.37 please check if your Google pay store and if your phone have a pending update for Android 15.
In line with this, gardening is not automatically categorized as a specific sport on Fitbit.”
In a previous email Aupport started by inferring that it may be fixed in a recent Fitbit app update, 4.37, then stating that only Android 15 or later will get this update. The iOS Fitbit app is at version 4,37 so they are still being very economical with the truth as you cannot change the activity type in it still - though the Activity field is read only unlike that in the latest Android App as it can be changed but the change is not saved. Why can’t they just say no to the functionality updae rather than stringing us along. And they say that Gardening, or dare I say Lawn Mowing, is an Activity and that I should be able to just change the activity type and not have to delete and add a new activity just to correct an error
Finally received another reply from Fitbit support and after reading the reply which contained all of the steps I had taken so far …. but did not answer the question I asked. I asked support to admit t(at I cannot edit activities, no matter the current version of the app I have either iOS or Android, and that they cannot edit the activities on my befall.
If only they were honest rather than just avoiding the uncomfortable truth which is they are just making the Fitbit experience so much poorer with the changes they have made to the apps in the last year and the removal of the Web Dashboard.
The Inspire 3 will be my last Fitbit and I won’t be purchasing any Google activity devices as a replacement in the future.
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