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In the Food Log section of the Web site there is button labeled Reports that promises:

In-depth analysis of your food

Get the most out of your food logging with food reports.

A Fitbit moderator told me this is no longer available. The Premium membership that is offered on this page apparently does not give me the reports I want.

I am meeting with a nutritionist soon and the charts and graphs that used to be available would be extremely useful in that meeting.

I will pay Fitbit a fee for this service.

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As someone that mountain bikes and hikes quite frequently it bothers me that the elevation gains and losses are not tracked accurately and are converted to flights of stairs in both the app and the tracker. It would be nice to see a software change implemented that would at least show the altitude change as a graph in the app and on the Blaze itself allow the ability to change the readout from stairs to elevation period.

Also as shown in the picture below from the website dashboard an elevation change of around 1000 feet shows up as 90 feet. It reads this way whether I do a single run for the whole trip or if I do a seperate activity for up and down. 

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Please update the dashboard to show the resting heart rate history since inception, with ability to download the data.  We home to be able to view this info from the computer, iPhone, windows phone.

Please see link to original thred here.

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Fitbit-com-Dashboard/Resting-Heart-Rate-history/m-p/1095053#M49235

thank you

Fitbit makes it very easy to create custom activities, but it is impossible to manage them or delete them.  This can cause many headaches for Fitbit users when custom activities are created due to problems with the Fitbit activity database.  (See: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Fitbit-com-Dashboard/How-to-delete-custom-activity/m-p/812764#M30307...

Custom activies can be deleted from your Favorites list, and entries of you doing a custom activity can be removed from your activity log, but they never get removed from the "Most Logged", "Recent", or activity search.  Since these activities are custom, let users modify them or delete them.  This will save time and frustration when using the activity search in the future.

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As you know, this is increasing evidence that sedentary behavior (e.g., minutes/hours incactive) is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. So, even is an individual is engaged in regular vigorous or moderate physical activity, and meet ACSM and Surgeon General guidelines for moderate/intense physical activity per week, they are at risk for heart disease if they are sitting or sedentary too much of the day. 

I upped my fitbit support to premium so I can track sedentary minutes. Though I have downloaded reports showing daily sedetary minutes, I would like to track sedentary mintues on my dashboard, so I can respond to the data in real time and work on get immediate feedback on strategies I might employ to reduce daily sedentary minutes.

PLEASE add sedentary minutes as an option for tracking the dashboard!  

And don't worry about the confound between sedentary minutes during waking hours vs. sleep. My sleep doesn't vary enough to influence daily sedentary minutes, so most of the variability is related to what I do or don't do during waking hours. Substracting sleep hours from the sedentary minutes calculation would be good, but not necessary.

Thanks for considering this request..

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The fitbit quiz (https://www.fitbit.com/global/us/products/find-your-fit) should ask the age of the user. After taking the quiz we ordered a versa 4 for our 11 year old daughter's birthday. She's a runner and was so excited to use it. When we found out that she can only use the Ace and we would need to return the Versa 4 she cried. Thank you!

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I posted this question on another thread, but was directed to post  it here.

Is there an option to fix the tiles on the Dashboard in place?... Sometimes the tiles appear to have a mind of their own as they change location randomly when the browser window is resized or accidentally, when moving the mouse pointer over the tiles. Is there is no such option, you should consider adding it.

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I feel users need the ability to edit their exercises on the web dashboard. For a long time, I had been following closely the feature suggestion Have the Ability To Edit Manually Logged Exercises (which since has had its name and description changed). During that time, I'm not sure when, the feature was made available on the Windows app. Then that feature suggestion was marked as released, but only for iOS users. A new feature suggestion post Ability To Edit Exercise Start and End time for Android Users was made by the moderator, but after a very short time (only 3 months compared to the 3.5 years the non-OS specific suggestion was posted), it was marked as "not currently planned." This leaves Android users who do not also have iOS or Windows devices in the lurch. With this feature not planned to be added to Android, we still deserve the option to edit start and end times for our exercises.

Add a macro's tile to the dashboard so that users can quickly see their macros for the food that has been logged.

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I had posted this elsewhere, but a moderator suggested that I post here as well.

I don't love the "Calories Left" tile and would rather have a BIG CURRENT CALORIE DEFICIT reading as part of the main dashboard, instead.  Why? The way that the "Calories Left" number is calculated can result in negative or low "Calories Left" numbers as the day goes by, depending on when you are active.  This is not a positive motivator for postive behaviour change, and isn't that supposed to be the point of quantifying your life?  If I know that I want a target 750 calorie deficit for a day, all I need to know is how I am tracking on actual calories in vs calories out in real time.  I don't want the additional projection on how many calories I should (or should not) eat, and in fact, the way that the "Calories Left" number presents itself provides an inaccurate and demotivational view and could lead someone to make the "wrong" decisions.

Example:    For anyone trying to lose weight in a healthy manner, eating small regular healthy meals over the course of the day is very important.  For my app to tell me that, because I ate my healthy breakfast and a mid-morning snack, I have low or even negative calories left for the day to eat; that is discouraging when lunchtime comes.  Even if in the back of my head I know that this number will continue bump up as the day progresses, and I am planning trip to the gym in the evening, at that moment in time, seeing that  negative or low "Calories Left" number makes me feel like I've done something wrong, when all I have been doing is living my life and eating small meals.   If I was only making decisions based on my app, then I might be hesitant to eat my 250 lunch, which is actually pretty small.  In this instance, the number on my app is not motivating the "right" action.

The problem is, the Fitbit doesn't know what I plan to do, like  work out at 7pm and burn an extra 400 calories.  Since I do most of my working out in the evenings, I'll always look "bad" for the better part of a day.  To go all day with the fitbit telling me that i am "over" because it doesn't know my plans an is calcuating what it "thinks" I should eat based on what it "thinks" I will burn (which is probably inaccurate) is demotivating.  I would much rather have the CURRENT DEFICIT showing in an obvious location.  So for example, if my calorie deficit goal is 750 per day, it is 4pm and I have only a 200 calorie deficit, I know that is is okay to still eat my dinner because I am going to the gym at 8pm where I'll burn an extra 400 calories.  I've had times where my fitbit is essentially telling me that I've eaten way too much and can't have dinner because it doesn't know I plan to go to the gym.  

In the end, it nets out at midnight, but the fact is the meter and the calories left reading can be demotivating, which is why I would rather have my deficit front and centre on the dashboard to help make informed eating choices.

Other contributors and moderators have pointed to ways to "dig" and find the tile or calculate the deficit, but it would be so much more valuable to have and option, particularly for those of us interested in losing weight to view a BIG, AT A GLANCE "Calorie Deficit" reading instead of "Calories Left".  It is the difference between positive motivation and negative motivation.  You have all the data available - would it be hard to offer this as an option?  Anyone agree with me???

As a patron who uses an iPhone with the iOS version of the Fitbit App, with a heart condition, I need to frequently download, store and email my PDF results to my physician.

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When I go to my heartrate graph, I can only see one month, and when I hover over points, I can't see what date it is.  There are also no dates on the bottom of the graph.  There should be dates either on mouse over or at the bottom.  Plus, if you don't have a cell phone, you can only see one month.  I want to be able to see 3-6 months on the Windows PC app and have the dates visible under the graph or on mouse over.

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I've noticed on the forum that there's significant demand for an update to the Fitbit Connect app for Mac. It'd be great to be able to sync to a laptop directly with recent devices.

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I'd like to see the sleep pattern page have a summary chart, where you could see multiple charts all on one long scroll. Showing me when I'm "restless" is great, after a fashion, but it is data presented in isolation (yes, I can scroll back to a previous day's chart but they it's still in isolation). The chart as currently presented cannot truly help identify patterns, which may point to enviromental or medical factors that may be able to be addressed. If it were up to me, I would see adding this chart page immediately off the dashboard - tap sleep, show chart, then tap the day to get the more detailed information screen(s) already in the app. Oh, I'm using a Charge, but it's probably not really relevant.

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I think that you should stop sending out weekly progress report emails because it's kind of hit or miss when you actually get around to sending them out.  I've missed numerous weeks reports (and, yes, my email is working correctly) because they were never sent to me.  Even one of your support people I talked to on a different problem stated that was an issue he had.

Simple solution, make them available via the web interface.

Thank you,

Dan R.

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Hi, I own three devices from fitbit, Blaze, Alta HR and flex2.

From the fitbit app, im not able to set a default device...i don't know exactly how the fitbit app handle 3 devices at the same time. Blaze is never the default, always the Alta HR the winner to be the default (right corner icon)... Also notifications, does not work very good when they are 3 devices  paired

this is a no sense to not being able to set a default device  and put others OFF  ...

Answer from fitbit :

Hello Domenico,

Thank you for contacting us again about your multiple devices issue.

We inform you that you can do that but the device not used must be far away so it won't sync with your mobile or you have to turn your phone Bluetooth OFF.

Don't hesitate to contact us again if you have any further questions.

Dominic

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I dislike how the dashboard "This Week's Activity" tile resets to empty once a week. Some users may enjoy building up to their target each week, but I find it frustrating that I only get to see how I'm doing relative to my target once a week. My suggestion is to have an option to use a rolling week, that it always show the most recent 7 days. 

With a rolling week, in order to keep your total up you need to be more active than you were on the same day last week. That could be a fun challenge for some.

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Woud be nice if it supported daish language.

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In the sleep listing, website only shows the hour (instead of hour:minutes) for sleep start and sleep end.  Should be trivial to show hours and minutes like on the app.  Even better would be to show the color graph like on the app.

Mu understanding is the only access to the estimated oxygen variation chart is thru an app.

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While there have been many improvements to the sleep log, the older sleep log:

Gave us an indication of the times when we were awake and restless (see the time references below the graph).  While the new sleep graph gives us a similar graph, it lacks the references to when these instances occurred.  I have friends who are new parents, and they used this to track when the baby woke for his feeding.

Can we augment the existing sleep pattern graph with markers for time like this?

Note the 12am to 5am markers along the timeline.

It would allow us to once again reference not just that we were awake/restless, but also when that occurred.  It would allow my friends (exhausted parents) to know if their new son is sleeping longer than he was a week or a month ago.

I would really love the ability to race against myself and track my performance against past runs during my current run with splits provided so that I can pick up the pace if I'm behind etc. This is really important as a motivating factor as well as a quick way to mark improvements in fitness levels. Please can you look at introducing this ?

The same can be extended to other aspects example speed, distance, avg HR bpm, time etc.

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Hey Fitbit Support, can you program the activity tracker to show the actual and the target for that day? I've been gradually increasing my step count which is great for me but when I look back at history it shows the new target not the target I had for that day

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The only meaningful measure is "active minutes" as research ties this to health benefits. Other measures, such as the number of steps, are arbitrary. Please also add it to daily, weekly &c totals under the "Activity" tab.

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I suggested this a long time ago, but since the food log is now going through some changes, I think I'll bring it up again:

It would be useful to have checkboxes beside each food item so users can enter several foods at once instead of one at a time. For instance, if I could check off bread, ham, lettuce, and mayo from my Recent, Frequent, or Custom lists, click submit, and all 3 items will be added at once to the food log. And, if the checkboxes are also added to the food log entries as well (basically, anywhere food items are listed), I could delete or move several items at once by checking them off first.

Currently, it requires too much hunting and clicking to enter several items one at a time. This was also true of the original food log design. It's especially cumbersome on the mobile app—too many steps to add/delete/move just a couple items.