Customize Reminder to Move Time of Frequency

[tiggerulz]

it would be nice to have a Hourly Activity tile on the dashboard that would readily give the steps taken in the hour and how many more you have to go... and including that information in the Hourly Activity section of the app.

would also be nice to have the ability to edit the amount of steps.  Have the minimum as 250 but give the user the ability to increade that if needed.

and the ability to change the time that you get the reminder to move, sometimes 10 mins to the top of the hour doesn't give enough time to work in the remainder of the steps needed.

Moderator Edit: Added Labels/Title for Clarity

[Lexcos]

I  had the blaze but felt it wasn't very feminine so I got the charge 2 and found it doesn't have a countdown!!! I need that for multiple reasons!!! I set it for exercise with weights! I set it for work when I take breaks!!! When will there be an update with this feature!??

[Keffria]

I would also like this feature, but doesn’t look like many others would 

[LizFitbit]

Hi @tiggerulz in the spirit of streamlining so there is one idea per Feature Suggestion, I've retitled this one and direct those interested in:

• Increasing the # of steps for Increase number of steps in reminder to move to vote here.
• Display remaining steps for hourly step target here

Thanks for your suggestion.

[ericksonzxy]

make is so you can adjust the ten minute warning/alert adjustable for individual needs.  I have been trying to move every hour and the last ten minutes is just not long enough of a warning.    maybe, twenty or thirty would be better to have it default to.   The best way would be to just put it as a choice of so you can enter in a time element to suit or needs. 

[bwQuestion]

I would like the 10 minute move reminder to go off every 20 minutes.  Sometimes I am working at a desk and completely miss the single one at 10 till the hour.  Also the vibration needs to be stronger/longer.  This is the most important notification for me personally, and it seems to be she shortest/weakest of all of them.

[LizFitbit]

Hi everyone, thanks for sharing this suggestion. We're always striving to enhance Fitbit products and services, and we appreciate all of the input we receive from our customers. We do not currently have plans to release this feature. You can learn more about how Fitbit decides what suggestions get released in our FAQs. For now, we will leave this suggestion open for votes (and closed to comments) so that we can continue to track community demand over time. Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback with us and we will let you know if anything changes.

[Roger777]

In a future software update, include the option to alert you every 15 mins in order to drink water or grab some steps. 

Doing smaller amounts of water or walking every 15 mins vs an hour would promote a more fit lifestyle. The reminder could be turned on and off via the device at any time to avoid going off during a mtg or movie and could either supplement or replace the current reminder at :50 to get steps. 

[haliskig]

My choir director has his Apple Watch set to remind him to move every 20 minutes.  This is exactly what I need as I sit at a computer a lot.

[sax5084]

I have a lot of meetings that start on the hour and last an entire hour (I'm guessing I'm not alone). Since the hourly reminders reset on the hour, I can never get my 250 steps in a "calendar hour". When you set the daily hourly reminders, it does not let you change the minutes of the start time (i.e. 8:10 to 5:10 instead of 8:00 to 5:00), you can only change the hours field while the minutes have been grayed out. If I could just do this, I would still have a fighting chance to actually complete my hourly steps despite my meetings.

[LanuzaFitbit]

Nice suggestion, thanks for sharing. We look forward to hearing what other community members think.

[Meeshmeesh1]

As a student, I have 1.5 hour classes where I have to sit down the entire class. It is not possible for me to get 250 steps in during those 1.5 hours. I understand "active hour" is pretty strict on what it means, but one should be able to adjust their goals to be active every 2 hours instead (even to do the same 500 steps every 2 hours), or even the other way, to be active every half an hour. 

[I_of_the_Tiger]

In the hourly activity tracker, including options for reminders aside from "10 min" would be helpful.  Even if it were limited to 10, 15, or 20 minutes before the hour.  For those of us in offices, a 10-min to the hour notification isn't particularly helpful to meet an hourly goal.

Hourly tracking is still really appealing, but an adjustable timeframe to set the reminder would enhance the feature.  Personally, I'd love a 20 minute reminder so I have time to get to a place to break in my work and plan a walk break, chore, mini jog or play with the dog accordingly. 

(I could also see how in more procrastination friendly days, a shorter timeframe would be a nice way to light a fire for movement.  Either way, adjustable settings.)

[MickeyMullin]

The default time for Reminder to Move is ten minutes before the hour. This is also the default for most calendar notifications, so on a smart watch (Ionic, Blaze), the calendar notification gets lost, unless you take the time to scroll through notifications.

Give us the option to change the minute for Reminder to Move to another time, e.g., eleven or twelve minutes before the hour (instead of ten minutes).

[W_J_C]

I would very much like to be able to edit the "Reminders to Move" tracking, so I can fill in a dot when I know I have completed a few moments of activity, but the tracker thinks it wasn't enough.  

There are 2 reasons I would like to do this:

(1) I have a set route from my office that I walk every hour, but occasionally (maybe 1 in 10 times) the tracker does NOT seem to record quite enough steps to fill in the dot for that hour.  Sometimes, a missed dot for this reason is the ONLY missed dot I have for the entire day.  (My work can be rather absorbing, so after I finish my brief activity, I often forget make sure I get the notification confirming I took 250 steps.)

(2) Sometimes I get a bit of activity while the tracker is charging.  Shouldn't I be able to give myself credit for moving?

It's really frustrating to miss my goal for either of these reasons.  Sometimes I don't even feel like trying for the rest of the day.  This effectively de-motivates me, which is antithetical to the Reminders to Move.

[Zaphnia]

I would love to be able to set an alert to remind me to get up and move every 15 minutes. The once an hour thing is not enough.

[Odyssey13]

Hi @Zaphnia

Until this is possible, why not set a series of alarms to remind you to get up and move. You can have eight alarms set at once, then just change the times as each of those goes off.

[msparky303]

I would love to see a setting that allows you to toggle on more aggressive reminders to move.  I enjoy trying to move the 250 per hour.  The problem is that there is just a short couple of vibrations 10 minutes before the hour.  I often miss this if I am currently moving around.  I would like to see a persistent message on the screen or multiple move reminders say at 10 min, 8 min and 5 min.  With multiple reminders I will be likely to catch one of them.  

[SunsetRunner]

Yes, this is exactly what I need as well. Thank you for writing it out ^_^

For me, it is that you are sometimes caught up in something and you dismiss the reminder without thinking about it <_>

[RizRiz]

Hi guys! Do you think it is possible to have the hourly actitvity reminder 30mins before the hour ends? 10mins is too short especially for people like me who do desk work and there are times that get stuck in a middle of work and will completely forget the 10mins warning 🙂

Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity and label

[AlexandraFitbit]

Nice suggestion, thanks for sharing @RizRiz!. We look forward to hearing what other community members think. 

[Dvheuvel]

10 mins, 30 mins, it's all kind of arbitrary. Why not make it right at the hour so you have 60mins to complete the steps?

The issue I think you are highlighting is that you get a single alert, which if missed you don't get another alert for another hour.  Sometimes at a desk job, that's easy to do.

what would be more effective is if you haven't moved "enough" in a certain time period (say 50 mins), you get an alert. if, in some other time period (10 mins?) you haven't moved enough you get another alert, etc.  The alerts stop when it's been determined that you have moved and are continuing to move enough.  That would be more useful than stopping the alerts on the hour because "well, you missed the goal for that hour".

The gamification (i.e. meeting goals and seeing the little dots completed) is kind of arbitrary.  What is really life changing is getting people to move, and continuing to remind people to move regardless of meeting some arbitrary time limit and/or step count.

make sense?

[Dvheuvel]

to be clear, I don't think that it's the 10 mins to the hour that needs to change but rather a persistant notification needs to occur when you haven't reached the required goal.  Because the way it is now, I can continue to be sedentary until the next alarm.

[RizRiz]

well it is easy to say get the people moving but for those who work at a desk it is really difficult because i try to move as much as i can but i cannot leave my station as often as i want to 🙂 i sometimes end up jogging in place lol just to keep myself moving.  

alarm on interval would work too so i agree that more than 1 alert should be developed. say, one alarm 30mins before then another 10mins before the hour ends.

thanks for sharing 😉

[Ksavo]

Being able to choose amount/intervals for alarms would be great. If you could choose to have an alert every 10/15/30 mins until you hit your goal would be nice

[Tabby0418]

A choice on what the interval is should be in place, just like a choice on how many steps per hour we hit would be nice as well.  Maybe 250 isn't what I strive to do; maybe I want to hit 500.  So more options in this area would be awesome!