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Hi @Sydgreco, and thanks for taking the time to share your suggestion about enabling Kilojoules to be displayed on the Fitbit watch! We rely on feedback like yours to help us develop products and features that we know our community wants to see. If your suggestion receives votes from other customers and gains popularity, it will be shared internally with various teams at Fitbit. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visitour FAQs. Watch this space for status updates! In the meantime, try visiting our Lifestyle Discussion Forum to talk with other members about all things health and fitness.
The dashboard is very good but whilst it includes an option to change units to metric i.e. length, weight and water there is no option to change calories to kilojoules that is essential for those in non-imperial countries like Australia, France etc. The option is on the App (Android) and this is great but needs to be also on the dashboard to make it useful. Can someone with power turn this into a reality please.
Hi @MyBMI! Great suggestion, thanks for sharing your feedback. I've moved it into a similarrequest. Post a comment or click on the thumbs-up to show your support.
Hi @lalabrucey, and thanks for taking the time to share this suggestion about having the option to display kilojoules instead of calories on Fitbit devices. We rely on feedback like yours to help us develop products and features that we know our community wants to see. If this suggestion receives votes from other customers and gains popularity, it will be shared internally with various teams at Fitbit. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visitour FAQs. Watch this space for status updates. In the meantime, try visiting Health & Wellness to talk with other members about all things health and fitness.
This is not a great suggestion? It is a necessity! This should have been there from day 1. Most of the world uses metric. It is quite unbelievable that the charge 4 and 3 do not have the ability to change from calories to kilojoules on the device itself while being able to do so in the app. This should be a given. Period!
Also in Australia and disappointed to see the watch can't track in KJ. Makes it trickier to keep a track of everything if you don't have your phone with you all the time.
I discovered that my Fitbit Inspire 2 has this same problem. Being able to display in metric units is so fundamental I was really surprised to see that this hasn't been implemented already.
Hi @Slushy. Thanks for sharing this suggestion about being able to see Kilojoules burned on your Inspire 2 with us. This idea was already requested in the Feature Suggestions board, so I’ve moved your post here. This will help us to keep the forums organized and make sure the suggestions don't get confused, or split a popular vote. Please click on the thumbs-up to show your support.
You wouldn't think something as basic as a consistent unit of measurement would need to be voted on, it's hardly what I would call a feature. Agree with above, shocking that new fitbit sense can't manage to multiply by 4.184.
Please add the option to display Kilojoules on the Charge 3 watch, as metric countries don’t use calories on food packaging, and it is annoying not having this option.
I would be really grateful if you guys can switch the units on the Charge 4 watch to kj rather than calories. In NZ we use both and I'm one of the people who prefer kj.
As a software developer I know this one is a really trivial modification. So this is an easy win for you guys, and I expect this would make many millions of people much happier.
This thread reminds my why I was so frustrated with Fitbit when I left it a few years back. Somewhat regrettably now, I've returned to find this is STILL an issue! Dear Fitbit - if you are marketing your product globally, it needs to be fit-for-purpose globally. Surprised that you haven't realised nearly the entire world uses metric kilojoules - with UK & USA being pretty much the only remaining stalwarts. (5 minutes spent googling will show this to be true). I appreciate you updated your app to accommodate kilojoules (thank you) - but for the love of all things good - why did you not carry it across to the watch interfaces? Particularly when choices of other units of measurement do this?
Approaching this logically, I can only surmise it's either laziness or sheer arrogance that is preventing this 'requested feature' from being implemented...but I have faith in humanity and hope this isn't the case. (It would show a lot of respect for your paying customers if you could simply explain why this hasn't been implemented to date - rather than replying with your stock standard "we've noted this as a requested feature... blah blah blah.")
Prove to me, and many others (including the 100's that made comments on this in threads that have now been deleted/removed) that you sincerely do care about the customer experience and implement this requested change as soon as practicable. Go on, I dare you.
5 years and counting, also with no updates from fitbit. These votes are spread across multiple similar posts too which may give the wrong impression that it's not a big deal.... It really is a big deal. Moderator, can you please provide some insight into why this is falling on deaf ears? It's a simple calculation. If there are custom clock faces doing this it shows it can be done, in fact it's a simple multiplier. Please can we have an update!
I'm finding it extremely frustrating that the company has not taken up this *extremely* simple request after several years to perform the multiplication required. A half-hearted update was deployed this year which made a token amount of difference and did not address the full set of requirements. I've changed the UoM settings as described and can see kilojoules in 1 place but I still get Calories in the Android app and on the Charge 4 device itself.
It's now Christmas Eve 2020 - can we please have this basic functionality in the next release?
I have just bought the Fitbit Sense, one reason being that I thought that it displayed kilojoules on the device itself. I wholeheartedly agree with the other comments. It's almost 2021, we should be able to see all displays in metric.
Couldn't see how to vote with a thumbs up for the comments above, but they have my thumbs up.
It would definitely help to have Kilojoules on both the Charge 3 and the website foodlists (Australian list on fitbit.com is in calories, not used here since 1971 or so). Surely a simple fix, just x or / by 4.184, but I want to be able to see at a glance how I'm going. THat's why I bought the device!
I've just joined the Fitbit community and am staggered to see that the dashboard only understands Calories. Could we please have Kilojoules somewhat urgently?
I tried to change my Versa 3 to display kilojoules instead of calories. How nice it would be if somewhere in the menu one could select Use Metric Units. Unfortunately, Calories are meaningless to me.
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