Redesigned Sleep experience now in the Fitbit app

[RebeccaFitbit]

Hi everyone! Starting today, you may notice a new sleep experience in your Fitbit app. If you don't have it right away, please be patient as it can take some time to reach all users. 

Check out what’s new by going to the Fitbit Community blog. 

What do you think? Let us know!

[ACB48]

I have been living with the new Fitbit sleep tracking and thought I might get used to it but I haven't. And here is one thing it doesn't do that the old version always did. For example if you fall asleep at 9:30pm, wake at 11:30pm and then back to sleep at 1am until 6am it would include both of these sleep stages into one total sleep period. Why wouldn't you see a total which should include both of them, not total sleep based on the date.

VERY CONFUSING.....

[Angela42]

I'm not sure who on the Fitbit team thought this update would be better, but it isn't. This is not end user friendly. This new graph is not intuitive like the previous chart. I just purchased the Sense and mainly using to track sleep. I'm so disappointed. Please create new script and roll out previous build. 

[reragland1]

How can a respected company (Google), get it sooo wrong and be seemingly unwilling to correct their mistakes! You are going to DRIVE your loyal Fibit customers to non Fitbit products! 

[Bluewitch1]

Sorry to disagree, it was NOT A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION!! They have taken it backwards and it will be the end of Fitbit. Too many of us are pissed off!!!

[smidowski]

Please restore the previous version of the sleep report. This is not user friendly and tells me nothing. Please thebprevious version is the main reason I use fitbit. If you don't restore it, I will go to a different device for my health information.  

[Faithd-c]

I'm looking for other trackers. Every change made to Fitbit by Google has been a step backward. But the sleep "upgrade" is by far the worst.

[AnnaSirkka]

I really really really don't like the new look. I keep uninstalling the app and reinstalling to get the old sleep graph back, but eventually it changes back to the new one and it's so frustrating. It's hard on the eyes and I wish I could keep the old graph display. I used to look forward to checking this each morning and now it's a bummer. 

[Caselind]

Regarding the 30 day average, am I reading this right? It is represented by a DOT? Seriously? When comparing last night's sleep to an average, I want to see the actual percent. The dot is pretty useless, so please advise me if I'm missing something. 

[Faithd-c]

I'm 74. This version is unreadable, unbearable!

[agolfaholic]

Bring back the old app!  I hate this thing.  I'll use the Apple Watch until this gets fixed.

[Skyla805]

I vote we go back to the original sleep data format. New is not always better!

[Rennib]

The new design is absolutely awful. Font is to small, lines are too thin, colors are terrible, and information that I need appears to be gone. The old version did have some things that could have been improved but overall, it was great. At the very least, I could read it and get information from it. The new design just made it so much worse. Google is going downhill fast, and taking much loved apps like Fitbit with it.

[agolfaholic]

Sometimes these changes are more about doing something new than about
making an app better.

[Ramma314]

All around a terrible change. I'm disabled and spend a lot of time in bed which causes hugely inaccurate sleep readings. Previously what I had to do was periodically, usually every 3-5 weeks, manually go through and delete a ton of sleep data that had short 1-3 hours 'sleeps' recorded which were nothing more than me being stationary enough, often times not even in bed, home, or near a bed.

This update makes getting truly accurate sleep data for me nearly impossible. Virtually every night now is recording the entire time I spend in bed as sleep, so far as to ignore hours where I get up and cook food, or play games due to my disabilities making sleep impossible. It simply isn't working, and it's taken away the manual control needed to accurately provide my health care team with true to life sleep data when they ask for it. Right now, I have nothing because Fitbit thinks I slept perfectly the past 3 nights despite the fact that I literally didn't sleep for 1 of them at all, slept 3-4 hours across the other 2. Now it's night 3 and it's almost noon with no sleep, but I've been in bed, so my score will be fine I bet....

So I'm not completely bashing this - the first page that is shown now on sleep stats is kind of nice. It could be more readable and compact. I see no issue with keeping that in some way. But what needs to change is how we access our history.

Previously we could just scroll day by day, week by week, seeing every day with ease. This was a near perfect system because seeing anomalies was simple and extremely fast to fix. Now we can't see anything except the few summaries were given. When incorrect data is gathered, which is nearly daily, were just SoL. It would be an understatement to say this is a massive downgrade. It's like the app and watch does nothing for sleep stats now, and all the years of data are moot. Garmin is looking quite appealing if this shi doesn't get sorted honestly. Years of data be **ahem**ed if Google is just going to end up throwing it away without asking anyway.

[KJG1]

I must say I prefer the older bar graph version. It was clearer and easier to read than the new graphic approach. Also, the benchmark page is only showing my data not the benchmark data. I miss the chart on oxygen variability. The chart showing sleep score trend over the last few days provided more information than the single day score and I don't see the sleeping heart rate score although it may be in there somewhere. I thought the old format was super. Why fix something that wasn't broken? 

[Caselind]

I hate this update so much that I have removed it from the home page. I don't need the frustration. Ever since Google took over, the graphics and data accessibility have suffered.

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[Caselind]

Apparently the benchmark feature is working for some people and not for others, and "they" are working on it. I ditto your remarks, and I'm so frustrated that I removed sleep tracking from the home page. In its current state, I Can do without it.

[Caselind]

One little bit of positive info, I read that they are are working on a glitch  with benchmark. It's working for some people and not others. 

[Teebag]

Gmamoe I'm thinking of doing the same and I've had Fitbits for more than 10 years!

[Teebag]

I really wish I didn't have it, it's absolutely awful. I'm now looking at maybe getting myself a Samsung instead! Never thought I would change from a Fitbit, I've had one for more than a decade but I'm liking it less and less now. Please give us back the old sleep experience, it was bad enough when you took away the horizontal sleep page, whatever next?!