No GPS in auto-recognized exercises?

[ChstrfieldJ]

I’ve been trying to figure out if there’s some setting I need to turn on somewhere - I want my auto-recognized exercises to include GPS data so I can sync to strava and it’ll include my heart rate info. Is there any way to do this? Otherwise I manually log the activity but strava won’t get enough detail to help guide my training with heart rate info. Thanks!

[Converse]

The answer is no at this time I believe but why not just turn the exercise on manually and the walk and run uses GPS far as i know it only two exercises with GPS enabled. The reason I think it doesn't auto turn on with auto exercises is because GPS is a battery drainer and the company probably believed people wouldn't want it to just turn on all time with auto exercising but it would be nice to have a choice to do so.

[ChstrfieldJ]

If I was taking a walk or run on purpose, sure, I turn it on manually. But
a) sometimes you forget, and b) sometimes I end up waking an insane amount
while I’m working and not treating it like exercise but I still want the
data. It surprises me because when I had a non-GPS charge and my phone was
near it would use gps from my phone to add to the auto-recognized
activity.

[LZeeW]

Hello @ChstrfieldJ and welcome to the Help forum.  Auto-recognized activities, the feature Fitbit calls SmartTrack, have never connected to GPS.  There is no way to do it and there are no plans to add it.  When you were using your phone with your older Fitbit, you were using a feature called MobileRun.  This is not an automatic option -- you must start and end it on your phone app.  No Fitbit model can automatically start MobileRun.

I don't use Strava, so I might be wrong about the next part.  MobileRun stopped including heart rate data a while ago.  User get a "not enough heart rate data" message where the heart rate used to be.  I'm not sure what the result will be by using MobileRun and Strava.  If you need both heart rate and GPS, then it sounds like you need to use the Exercise app for your training.