Make more clock faces for Charge 6

[jrebs]

I just got my wife and I matching Charge 6 watches and while I'm overall pleased enough with the user experience so far, the clock face selection leaves a lot to be desired. The vast majority of the options are simply unusable. The remaining few acceptable ones still are not particularly endearing.

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[Burkules]

I second all these comments.

I recently upgraded from a Charge 4 and am absolutely stunned at the clock faces on offer here, and why on earth there is not a simple, clean & professional looking one amongst them?

Overlapping numbers & patterns just make everything harder to read, and enforcing colours on every design is just bizarre.

These feel like a series of internal designs to show off the (very nice) screen's capabilities during production or a quick cut advert campaign, rather than the ONLY available options for customers the best part of a year after release. Give us the 'boring' one that simple shows the time and maybe some stats.

So please Fitbit, open up clock face design to 3rd parties if you don't want to do it yourselves - but this hardware seems really great, so don't fail it, yourselves and all of us with enforced graphic design choices.

Adam.

[JanvdT]

The avaible clock faces are so limited and none are to my liking. Would be great to improve this.

Just had to switch to the Fitbit Charge 6 (from 3 to 4 to 5) and suspect this will be Fitbit's last version before being integrated in the Google Watch

[Dagoodson]

Just had an update today and was hoping for something new.


And as my boss always points out...hope is not a strategy.

Pathetic selection.

[BobCrout]

Sadly my Charge4 finaly gave up (a moments silence please!) I have purchased a Charge 6 and am slowly familiarising  myself with what I consider to be some pretty strange "options", I will not bang on about these other than the watch faces available, my question: Are the designers of this watch taking the "P" with regards the clock?  Perhaps they consider themselves progressive art inspired designers because they certainly don't understand the dynamics of a " fitness" wrist band where info regarding exercise progress is of paramount importance. Please tell me I'm wrong and new options are available (and I just haven't found them yet). Pretty please.

[jay0928]

Please give us more clock face with sleek, readable, simple and classy design. Also some more customizable one would be great.

[RoryOMore]

I add my voice to all the people disappointed by the lack of good options for clock faces. How can a device that is supposed to be a watch of sorts have such silly non watch-like options? And why does each upgrade seem to have worse choices than its predecessors? Google, step up! Don’t ruin Fitbit!

[RoryOMore]

I agree wholeheartedly, and I’ll add that both my Charge 4 and Charge 5 had better options for the clock face, which makes the paucity of options for the Charge 6 especially disappointing. 

[DaHenry]

I agree - the watch faces available for the Charge 5 and 6 are very poor.  The color choices look like they are for children. Please add options that would appeal to mature adults and/or open it up so independent devs can create more classy options.

[Oncethegrey]

We haven't had any new clock face additions to the Charge 6 in a long time! Also, barring the pre-set one, the other options are limiting, as they don't display all the information on the Home Screen toggle.

[TOSS12]

I just upgraded from the Inspire 3 and I can’t believe the lack of options for clock faces. I thought I would get more options, not fewer. Very disappointing. This should be an easy thing to offer!

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @Oncethegrey, thanks for sharing this product feedback about creating new clock faces for Charge 6 with us. Because this idea was already requested in this board, I’ve moved your post here. This will help us to make sure the product feedback shared here doesn't get confused, or split a popular vote. Please click on the thumbs-up to show your support.

[Kel9591]

If it hasn't been mentioned already, four different colors for watch faces isnt enough. How about Blue, orange, purple, yellow and red? Maybe they don't have the capacity to add more i dont know. 

[RedRiver4]

I am still using a Fitbit 4 because I do not like the watch faces currently available on the Fitbit 5 or 6.  I only need steps, time, and date.  I know your creative team thinks we need all this color and splashy fonts.  If you do not make change to allow simple clock faces, you will lose a customer when my Fitbit 4 dies!

[steffenfit]

Hello,
I look enviously at watch faces from other manufacturers. I couldn’t believe that the selection in the app is really everything Fitbit has to offer. All the watch faces look very similar and, unfortunately, in my opinion, very impractical. The time is way too large on almost all of them, and with most of them, I can’t choose what important data is displayed for me. That’s very disappointing!

I would like to see significantly more variety in the designs—less flashy and more professional. Additionally, I’d like to be able to place data on the display and customize colors.

The current watch faces greatly diminish the value of the watch!

Thank for listen to your customers voice!

Br

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[MusicLaw]

I just bought the Fitbit Charge 6. It's clock face choices are very disappointing! The default clock face display I've had on my original Fitbit Inspire (which I believe may be the Aura clock face) is superior! Far more legible. Why that same style clock face is not offered for the latest Charge 6 is absurd. I'm seriously considering returning the Charge 6 and downgrading to the lower priced Inspire 3. I welcome your comments.

[sgalipelli2]

I want this to be prioritized. The clock faces are not mature enough to put it. They look boring and outdated. Please prioritize it

[craighound]

please! the options we have are so horrible. ugly designs and colors, unituitive to use, very little customization, and not enough variety.

[neverrekia]

Really disappointed with the charge 6 clock faces... I liked the simple clock faces available on Charge 4. I need to see time, seconds, and date/day of the week. Please make a clock face that matches the functionality of the charge 4, or allows use of clock faces from the charge 4. 

10 / 03 / TH / 23 was the perfect large clock face. 

Stat poster kind of works, but why is the time so small!!

It was such a pain to make an account and comment on your forum, for every comment complaining about charge 6 not having simple watch faces, there's probably 100 annoyed customers who didn't comment. 

[brunet73]

I just got a Fitbit Charge 6 as a gift for Santa... And what can I say about watch faces? This is a tragedy and a misunderstanding, who f***d up your Fitbit so much?

A few years ago I had an Amazfit watch and there was software in GooglePlay to edit and share watch faces. But God, that was ages ago... Where is Google heading?

[dPunisher]

A year without releasing new watch faces, without adding more options and colors to the existing ones. We need more attention to this request.

[steffenfit]

Just as you mention: it is over a year ago when this thread was opened. Nobody cares. Maybe they pick up this demand for the next version. But for sure: Charge 6 was my first and my last Fitbit product. The only point for choosing Charge 6 over Huawei or Xiaomi etc. was the inbuild ecg. Now I have a different device for this and can choose from a lot of watches with nice and practical watch faces.

[quence]

I don’t even need “new” clock faces—bring back the ones that were available on the Charge 2. Just switched from the 2 to the 6, and I’m terribly unimpressed by the faces. I don’t need it to look like a gadget, I need to be able to read the time and date, and maybe a few stats if I so choose.

Please, if anything, make older faces available for use on the Charge 6. Plain black and white would be nice too — not a fan of the comic book-esque graphic styles currently available. 

[McRon]

What 3 year old designed these clock faces? My Charge 5 bricked today so I got a Charge 6. If this is too much for Fitbit, then I will be returning it and getting anything else not Fitbit.

[ElysePidgeon]

I have just switched from a Luxe to a Charge6. I loved the jewelry band and the more traditional if not professional look of some of the clock faces available with the Luxe, however, my luxe only lasted a year and a half before it started to have problems so I decided to switch. The provided wrist bands and the clock faces on the charge6 are not great for dressing up and wearing in the office like a normal watch. I’d like to see some lighter fonts and simplified designs that just quickly show me the time, date, and my steps. 

[steffenfit]

Cant believe there are only 292 votes for this demand!

Have you all voted here too?

Afaics we need thousends of votes to have a chance to be heared.