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Would love to have an alarm that vibrates when you are idle too long. So either 30 mins, 45, or an hour. Just a quick vibration with a reminder to move on the screen! Then this device is perfect! Thanks!
Would love to have an alarm that vibrates when you are idle too long. So either 30 mins, 45, or an hour. Just a quick vibration with a reminder to move on the screen! Then this device is perfect! Thanks!
I see that some of these posts are over 2 years old--at least I think that is what I saw!
Santa is bringing me a new Apple Watch. I will NOT give up my Fitbit and the incredible community we have created (thank you Fitbit Team!!) for our challenges. I do want to be prodded when I have been idle too long.
Recovering from a work injury and adjusting to a new life of significantly limited activity is a perfect recipe for gaining weight. My Fitbit is so helpful and motivating.
I hope that Fitbit will add this in future updates for the Charge. In all honesty, if it were on the Charge HR, I would upgrade to that Fitbit and have it compliment my new AW.
Just received a Fitbit Charge HR for Christmas! I'm so excited about it....except that it doesn't have Idle Alerts. I loved this option on my Up24. PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN ASAP!! I work at a desk all day long and find myself not moving for hours!
I assumed the fitbit charge HR would have this function. Just a simple alert every 45 minutes to 1 hour if the user is idle, with the option to turn it off (or just extend it to 2 hours during dinners / meetings / drives). I know Apple Watch, many of the Garmin devices have this function - having strongly considered both of those options.
After getting the Charge HR as a gift today I was looking for this feature on the app - tonight seeing that it isn't available makes me wonder if I should consider trading it for another device despite being happy with everything else.
Thanks for pointing out that the thread is 2 years old. Clearly a feature others have desired for awhile, maybe the software requirement / code is more complex than it it would appear on the surface but I think it is a feature that should be available.
For now other options are good enough. I'll go with Vivofit 2 (less money, I can use a HR strap), or Vivosmart HR rather than go without move alerts. I'll come back to Fitbit Charge HR if the feature is added.
Sad, I really liked the form factor but anyway, for now I'm returning it.
The Fitbit HR has an arm cortex 3 processor which is used in numerous smartphones. There's no hardware limitation preventing an update and millions of programmers that could code and implement such an update in under a week making it clear that the intentions of the developer is to include this feature in a new model and not a software update. It's planned obsolescence.
I think it would be an extremely helpful tool to have on the FitBit. There is a large amount of people who sit for hours on end during our jobs. It's not like we want to be sitting all day, but sometimes we become so involved we need a little something to remind us to give our eyes a rest, to stretch and for our legs to move. Honestly, I'm a little surprised FitBit does not have this tool while some of its competition does.
It may be a small feature for some but it is something very much wanted and needed for many.
Fingers crossed new ones have the feature and they can update the system in older Fitbits for the feature.
Well said, Crossroad! I would certainly welcome an idle alert, but if losing track of time is an actual problem for me, I think I would get a simple device like an hour glass, flip it over when I sit down to a task, or if I seriously would get so lost in my work (and wouldn't be interrupted by people, phone calls or general noise, I would set the FitBit alarm to go off in an hour, or two. Or a kitchen timer (one that doesn't make noise until it is time..). I am not disagreeing with posters complaining here, (except perhaps those who think FitBit plans to suddenly provide this feature, but not retrofit the features in software for existing devices) but it certainly was not advertised as having the feature and I would hate to lose all it (actually, a ONE, then a FORCE, then the CHARGE HR) has done to help me improve fitness and lose weight. I value my FitBit for all it does, and for me, who has a smart phone but mostly has it turned off, I value the dashboard on my computer.
Waiting on delivery of a Charge HR, I discovered it may not contain idle alerts, a feature I assumed would be included. I absolutely loved this feature on my Jawbone and that I could set it to alert me after 15 minutes during work hours and turn it off at night and on weekends. I see it has been requested for two years. Is it to be added and if so when? If not soon, I will have to return this device when received. It is a must have feature.
They have not offered to add or respond in any way maybe when they make a new one it will have it but safe to say these old ones will not, get a garmin Helene Sent from my iPhone
Im very disappointed that the inactive alert isn't part of this. Wish I had known that before I bought this. I got a cheap jawbone that did this. Shouldn't have to buy an expensive version to get this
3 years of asking and no technical reason they haven't added this means they want to give you a reason to buy the next model. Don't reward planned obsolescence.
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