View SpO2 % in app and don't require SpO2 clock face selection during sleep to capture %

[mbarylski]

The SpO2 clock face has to be selected during sleep to view actual SpO2 % range and avg value in morning. Devices that support SpO2 DO collect the data since it shows up on a sleep graph. It's just the value doesn't appear. This is such a silly implementation. Just show the value in the app and clock face regardless of the clock face during sleep.

[SunsetRunner]

Couldn’t agree more!!

Sent from my iPhone

[Miscad]

Just make this an app! If I can buy a $25 SpO2 reader online and it can read my levels in under 30 seconds, the Fitbit Sense should be able to do the same thing at any moment I go into an app to turn on the SpO2 sensor. That is true SpO2 readings, on the spot, not just waiting while your sleeping to see your levels the next morning! Come on! That is not true on the spot health monitoring. Please, these are simple requests for you!

[sockatume]

If nothing else, the documentation for this feature needs to be updated. In the current instructions, you're never actually told that you need to have the spO2 watch face on screen while sleeping, just that you need to download and install it. Seeing as it can run in the background (according to the permissions when you set it up) I had assumed that wasn't necessary! I'm certainly never going to bother using it if it limits me to using that one tacky watch face.

[pbug56]

It's odd. All that clock really does is show, one at a time on different
faces, a few basic pieces of info. I gather it can display a night's
average SPO2 %. And you have to be in the clock at night to possibly get
SPO2 data stored through the night the app has to be running. So during
the day if you want to see your normal data,specialty stuff, etc., you have
to switch clock apps to what you want, then back before the next time you
go to sleep. Makes zero sense.

[SPGmd]

So last night I did not use the SpO2 watch face. And I can still see my Oxygen  variation (Sleep --> Today --> Restoration and scroll to the bottom). This is the info that I find most useful. But you can not see what your average saturation for the night was. This means the sensor is gathering data regardless of whether you have the watch face on. This is such an odd implementation for fitbit. To have this one piece of data (your estimated SpO2) that you can see only on one watch face and nowhere in the app itself. 

[sockatume]

Is that actual data or estimated? It will estimate even without spO2 measurements I think.

Edit - Oh, the documentation makes it sound like it’s actually using the sensor.

[Kladz]

Please add app dedicaced for spo2 measure, don't want use clockface sp02 anytime.

I want t check sp02 anytime I want and not only by night. 

[Sharij1973]

I bought this specifically to use the SpO2 monitor at night to monitor oxygen levels. I am going to return it and purchase a different brand because of the issue with using the clockface. It shouldn’t be this complicated. 

[pbug56]

IMHO, their whole point is to give you something next to useless and hard
as hell to use so they can say they gave you SPO2, now stop bothering us.

The idea that you have to switch to a special clock - and use it as your
useless watch face just to get the Fitbit to record the data IF the FITBIT
software thinks you may be sleeping, and then come morning, if you need a
usable watch face, switch to that, and then hope that you remember to
switch back before getting some sleep.

I want the sleep SPO2 level, I need the daytime reading continuously and
can't walk around with a finger clip on. Now finger clips don't diagnose
anything, nor am I asking Fitbit to - just to let me see current in real
time on my watch, and lists / charts on my phone and in Excel.

If the publish to their app authors (internal and external) how to see the
real time O2, number, then do a sample say, every 5 seconds, and the
authors of good comprehensive faces include this, many of us would be quite
pleased. That and make the 24 x 7 list of readings available just like for
HR, steps, etc. for download and external analysis.

[meresydotes]

Fitbits have been tracking SPO2 while you sleep at least since Versa 1. If you wake up in the middle of the night and look at the sensor light, you will see there's a red light that isn't there during the day. That's the SPO2 sensor. There's no reason for them to hide the data. However, I'm not sure how accurate it is, as the 3 nights I used the clockface, my results were 93-96%. Every time I go to the doctor or measure with a finger clip myself, it's 99%.

I think the worst part is that the clockface drains the battery. The few days I used that clockface, I had 80% battery life left in the morning (I charge every morning, while I'm in the shower). Since I stopped, it's more like 87%. For a device that claims 6+ days battery life, you're not going to get there using their clockface.

[pbug56]

Do you have the clockface continuously lit? That will kill the battery.
And I'm guessing that if SPO2 is sensed at a high rate, that it will to
(based on common sense and notes that the Edge can have the SPO2 sensor run
the battery down. I charge mine nightly, don't normally mind if it only
goes a couple days between charges IF I get what I need. Would help of
Fitbit switched to USB C ports, though.

The clockface is a really bad joke. Using it as a 'switch' - someone must
have gotten that idea during a nightmare. And the clockface is otherwise
useless, can't even see how your battery charge is doing. Fitbit NEEDS to
offer the api to internal and external app designers so they can add it in
to any face (with the on/off switch) at the top of the settings.I have a
face that shows steps, stairs, miles, calories, HR, etc. - a once every 5
second update displayed on the face would be great. Right next to heart
rate,

There could be an either on watch or in phone app tool to calibrate O2
against a known good fingerclip that a wearer owns. If the o2 sensor works
well but needs a little tweak, that would take care of it.

My Versa also gets charged when I shower, and is usually at about 81% at
that time. So I've got room battery wise to cover O2 readings. I would
note, though, that I seldom see the red emitter on - it only seems to turn
on when I'm in bed very still.

I've had weird issues re 'sleep' readings. I can have the watch on
reasonably tight and wake up in the morning to see the message to wear it
to bed. Since I've had the watch - over 2 years. Tech support was MOSTLY
useless. And now I'm getting readings in the middle of the night saying my
pulse is about 70 - but that relates to a med I've been on. Even without
that, I average one of their 'mystery chart's) per month.

[cliff46]

I've solved all my issues with my Sense.  I've returned it and I have gone back to my Blaze.

Fitbit - next time don't oversell your product! 

[pbug56]

Sad. The hardware seems better overall than I expected 2 + years ago, but
to not fully or at all in reality provide the expected SPO2 capability is
just not acceptable, nor do I understand why they not just did it, but
continue to provide far less than (judging from the marketplace) expected

[miaishere50]

This is probably the best feature so far.

[Giannis]

I agree with this request and in addition I would like, like many other users, to be able to take instantaneous oxygen saturation measurements, so I wish. After all, it is a key feature in most smartwatches of all major manufacturers, but even smaller companies. I'm sorry it has not been added to Fitbit 's new products.

[DrJWo]

This is a great point. It should be available all the time, even at the expense of battery life as it would be a major selling feature. Clearly the technology capability is there to do it if it can take overnight measurements. I am hoping that a firmware upgrade can take care of this. 

[Rkoler]

1. SpO2 Should be collected even if you forget to change clockface when going to bed.

2. Need larger day date. Impossible to read right now. Too small. Format should be Sat 10/17.

3. would like to customize. For example I don’t need stairs climbed screen.

4. on steps screen I would like both daily and hourly steps. Or separate screen for hourly

[MikeHall721]

It would be useful if the SpO2 reading could be displayed on the standard clock face.

Thanks.

[pbug56]

IOTW, it should be available both real time and previous night's average to
any clock face. There should also be a control to allow a user to choose
whether it works in real time or not, plus a way to calibrate it against a
finger clip.

[SunsetRunner]

Just let us measure the SpO2 without switching the clock face and not only during the night.

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @Rkoler! Thanks for sharing those ideas. Thanks for sharing your feedback. I've moved it into a similar request. We wanted to let you know that one of the ideas you recently posted already exist on the Feature Suggestions Board. You can see it here: Able to customize the stats of the SpO2 clock face

Thanks for participating in Feature Suggestions.

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @SunsetRunner, thanks for explaining why you would like to have the option to see SpO2 details even when not choosing this clock face during sleep to capture. Thanks for sharing your feedback. I've moved it into a similar request.  A lot of users are asking for this option, I hope we receive updates soon.

[Fitbit19972]

Nothing to add since everything is said above. From logic standpoint I cant understand connection between spo2 measurement and having to use specific watchface. Very illogical and annoying. Please fix it

[jns2003]

Well, I have to say it's disappointing that SpO2 is only checked while sleeping, and then only with that one clockface. Might there be an update coming, that will track it all day or on demand?

[DaveS3]

I'd be surprised if they add it during the day... The daylight would
interfere with the sensor / reading I would think on the wrist. First
requirement for me is accuracy. .. perfectly fine with a daily reading from
the night data.