Change the sleep day

[JayFarmer]

Hi,
Under the sleep section on the app, why do you have the day being the day you woke up? It is very confusing. When I look back to see how I slept on Sunday night, I actually have to look at Monday. For example, today is Wednesday, if I asked you how you slept last night? Would you say, "well on Wednesday I slept 7 hrs." No, you would say "last

Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity

[EdsonFitbit]

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[earth312]

This has been an issue people have been complaining about since at least 2016 (you can see people’s comments to Fitbit directly on other websites) so I’m not sure why this hasn’t been fixed yet. The weird thing is, that mine used to be normal! It used to show Sunday night’s sleep as going to bed on Sunday (not waking up on Sunday - which is absurd) but then after an update it changed. Fitbit, please change it to the normal way people refer to going to sleep please, it’s incredibly confusing the other way round. 

[CarlaDawn]

I agree. Fix this. It makes sense to no one.

Apparently this comment needs votes for them to consider it...

Vote away.

[RAWAwasHere]

Agreed. There is many feedback about this all over the internet. Please change this. I only bought a fitbit for sleep, stress and steps tracking and its really annoying to have to actively remember that Fitbit records sleep against how society refers it. 

[LozInOz]

Please, please, please fix this. It is so counter-intuitive and confusing! At first I thought my settings were wrong or that there was a bug - I was surprised to see that this has been intentionally designed this way. Makes zero sense to me!

Please correct it (or at least give users the option to choose whether to display sleep data as "the night I went to sleep" or "the day I woke up").

[Dab-123]

It is astounding how companies can receive such logical advice and leave it unaltered for 7 years!  If it is Saturday afternoon and I am assessing the sleep I had, I don't say "Today I slept well"--you say, "Last night I slept well."  This is completely against common sense.

It also makes tracking of crucial variables impossible.  How I slept last night (see, Fitbit?) is directly related to what I did YESTERDAY. How much exercise I had, how much water I drank, how much I meditated, how many steps I took, as well as my vitals.  Now I have to switch between days to check that.

I think I am migrating to Apple.  I hope this stuff is better, though they are also renowned for having inane features no one has asked for.

And why aren't more people complaining about this?

[Appin]

When I go to sleep on say a Friday night, I call that Friday night's sleep. Same is true for every other day of the week but Fitbit, in its infinite wisdom calls it Saturday’s sleep. This is bizarre and more than a little confusing. Please make the record reflect the actual night that the vast majority of people call the night recorded!

[Guy_]

Hi @Appin - a night's sleep ends normally the following day (morning), so it would not be able to show your entire nights sleep in the Friday view on the app display.

All completed data is shown for the day in question on the phone app display for that day and to be consistent as sleep ended in the 24hrs of that day it is shown on that day.

Agreed, it can be confusing if you consider it the sleep starting the night before that day. To help, consider it the sleep that ended on the day you woke.

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @Appin, thanks for taking the time to share this product feedback about changing the sleep day on the Fitbit app and website with us. I noticed this product feedback was already requested on this board, so I’ve moved your post here. You might also be interested in this other product feedback. Please support this product feedback by adding your vote, this helps our developers to keep tracking its popularity and demand over time.

[looshy]

Agree 100000000%. Makes no sense. Super confusing and illogical.