Turn Off Step Counter, Focus on Heart Rate

[simenp]

With Fitbit focusing on steps as exercise, and the step counter being wildly inaccurate, my new Fitbit Alta HR is practically useless.

Every time I drive my motorbike, I'm clocking in "exercise", and currently the only "solution" is manually log every drive as Driving. I drive 4-5 times per day, and don't have time to log all day.

The simple solution would be a function to let you chose to only track high heart rates as exercise. That would fix everything.

Until this feature is implemented, I'm sorry to say Fitbit Alta HR is a totally useless product.

[SantiR]

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.

[Cretan1986]

I own a Charge 3 and it counts clapping/hands movement as steps which is obviously a bug of the product.

Moderator edit: Updated subject for clarity.

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @Cretan1986, nice suggestion. You can find a lot of information about Fitbit accuracy here. But I think that having that option, it'd be great! Thanks for sharing. 

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @Cretan1986, thanks for taking the time to share why you would like to see this option on Charge 3. This feature request already exists, so I’ve moved your post here. This is not currently planned at this moment. You can keep adding your votes to this suggestion so we can keep tracking this request overtime. Learn more about how Fitbit decides what suggestions get released in our FAQs. I hope to see you around.