Turn off quick view when I'm sleeping (or at customizable times) aka 'Night Mode'

[pclement5]

I love the quick view feature however when I'm sleeping I tend to wave my arms around which activates the display which sometimes wakes me up, especially if my wrist is close to my face.

My fitbit knows when I'm sleeping as it tracks my sleep so how about having the capability to disable quick view automatically whilst I'm sleeping, in fact don't even have it as a selectable option just don't trigger quick view when my fitbit knows I'm sleeping.

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[Zonker]

  I tried using long sleeve sleepwear, but the sleeves ride up my arm. I've tried using sport "sweat bands", which stay on the tracker, but are tighter than I like. It would be great to shift to a very low-light (10-20%) mode, during the sleep cycle. Maybe it needs to stay dim for 10 minutes after waking up (since some of us have to take a short walk in the middle of the night, then go back to sleep...). Thank you for thinking about this suggestion.

[Gryzor]

Just bought two Charge 2s a few days ago for my wife and me. I really can't fathom how they released a (otherwise great!) device with such a glaring flaw that seems so easy to fix. Even my ancient Pebble Classic (remember that, Fitbit? I guess you should...) allows for brightness levels.

Didn't any of the people responsible for developing and testing these sleep with one on?

[Manav123]

Yea thanks a lot

[Nomaad]

I would suggest to couple the override for Quick View with the Notifications Off feature, because sometimes when I am falling asleep, the Fitbit may not yet register me as asleep or tracking sleep, then the flick of a wrist would wake me up again. So automatic solution might not be ideal.

I know competitors have this (think Garmin?)

[Sharonalondon]

I had a basic tracker and in the settings on the app you could turn it automatically lighting up based on wrist movement on or off. 

The Charge 2 monitors sleep - could dimming / turn off of quick view operate during sleep monitoring? 

Really useful but the light can wake me / my husband up

[Keithx]

People have been asking for this feature for years.  My wife and I both have the pain of changing settings twice a day!  What's the problem?  It's a simple software update!

[AE1M]

I started this thread, hundreds have commented, yet not a peep from Fitbit!

Hey Fitbit, we are using your process, seems like a feature EVERYONE wants, how about a comment on when it will come, or why not?

Are we wasting our time with this process? Is any Fitbit associate monitoring this forum?

Thanks,
Bob

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[Arms]

It's not necessarily the display that bothers me but I wear my band looser at night and the lights on the bottom are really bright.  Would be nice if both could be adjusted for night hours. 

[morbidbunny]

Wearing the band too loose won't give you an accurate reading.

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[XC-Runner]

I totally agree. I tried wearing my fitbit at night but the light kept waking me up. Now I can't see how I sleep at night. A night mode would be so nice.

[SunsetRunner]

I agree that the display is too bright at night, and it's almost useless in sunlight.  Really needs to be adjustable or something.  For those who have decided not to wear it at night @XC-Runner, I believe you can turn off quick view and it won't light up unless you hit the button.

[Lillith]

I'm a little concerned that this suggestion was first posted last year and not even an acknowledgement of it from Fitbit.

It's an obvious change that's needed, and all you need to do is turn off this feature during the nominated Sleeping hours period.

Speaking as a systems analyst, there's no need for anything more than this. 

If you introduce a complicated on/off timing feature for the odd few who want it turned off at other times, nobody will use it.

So just turn the Quick View off during the nominated sleeping period.

thank you. (mine's a Charge 2 btw)

[Lillith]

Yes, badly needed. This is also covered by the thread asking for Quick View to be automatically turned off during specified sleeping hours.

[Manav123]

What is quick view?

[Lillith]

 Under Settings, Quick view if set On makes the Fitbit light up and show you the time whenever you turn your wrist towards you as though you're looking at a watch. Saves you having to press the button to see the time.

You can turn it on and off via Settings, but it doesn't turn off automatically at night, so the Fitbit can light up and shine in your eyes as you're tossing and turning in bed.

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[Manav123]

Ohhh OK.....
WE NEED A NIGHT MODE!!

[Lillith]

So where is it????????

[Manav123]

...... IDK. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[ClarabelleJR]

Please make the software turn off the lighting according to whatever sleep schedule a customer has programmed. And also, make it possible for a customer to set the option of having the detailed sleep tracker track sleep in detail according to that schedule. Currently, my pain wakes me often in the night and often for more than 1 hour. As a result, despite my programmed sleep schedule, I often end up with one or two fragments of sleep - for example, one detailed and one not, or just one (the second chunk totally missing). I see that in Windows 10 time periods for exercise can be set according to personal preferences. What I'm needing is to be able to similarly set my preferences for sleep time-outs: To tell the app that I may be awake for up to 3 hours but that within my scheduled sleep in my profile, I need it to keep the detailed tracking - including a fat band of pink showing how long I was awake in the middle of the night. I love my Charge 2 but without this ability to override the automatic 1-hour time-out, it is not doing what I need for my medical condition.

[ClarabelleJR]

Please make the software turn off the lighting according to whatever sleep schedule a customer has programmed. And also, make it possible for a customer to set the option of having the detailed sleep tracker track sleep in detail according to that schedule. Currently, my pain wakes me often in the night and often for more than 1 hour. As a result, despite my programmed sleep schedule, I often end up with one or two fragments of sleep - for example, one detailed and one not, or just one (the second chunk totally missing). I see that in Windows 10 time periods for exercise can be set according to personal preferences. What I'm needing is to be able to similarly set my preferences for sleep time-outs: To tell the app that I may be awake for up to 3 hours but that within my scheduled sleep in my profile, I need it to keep the detailed tracking - including a fat band of pink showing how long I was awake in the middle of the night. I love my Charge 2 but without this ability to override the automatic 1-hour time-out, it is not doing what I need for my medical condition.

[TornEdges]

I have the Alta HR

Seeing as we can set a Target Sleep Schedule with a Bedtime start time and a Wake up time, would it be possible between those times, to automatically turn the Quick View to Off and then automatically change it back to Show Clock at Wake up time?

You could add a choice of Night Mode on or off under the Quick View menu.

Reasoning: During the night, whenever I moved my hand near my face, the light from the display kept waking me up, so I tuned Quick View off, but during the daytime, I am getting tired of tapping the device just to see the time. I am certainly not going to keep changing the setting and resyncing my device twice a day!

[morbidbunny]

I agree. I know it's possible to turn the raise to view feature on and off, but something more automatic is called for. Even if it was button controlled like the Turn notifications on/off setting. It could be the second page in that same part of the button menu.

Brennan Barrett
778-789-0254

[Lillith]

I was rather hoping that posting such a request on here would get some kind of response from the Fitbit people to say Yes it's in the pipeline, and you can expect it by the end of the year, or at least, Sorry, we can't do it because ..... 😞

Do they take notice of these things or are we all wasting our time?

[drkglb]

I would love to have this feature on my brand new alta HR. Disable quick view when in range of the scheduled sleeping hours would be even easier to implement I guess.

[CK114]

Yes!! We need this. I got an Alta HR last week and wore it to bed that night, and it kept waking me up it was so bright. I haven't worn it since, so kind of defeats the purpose. I have been using a Fitbit One for 10 years, and that had a little cover that you put it inside before slipping it on your wrist... surely a dimmer function between sleeping hours is an easy software update solution?? Thanks!

[Robynski]

Yes please! I love my Fitbit but wow, way too bright at night!  There are a ton of requests for this and I'm wondering why it's a difficult task to implement. Come on Fitbit works your magic here!