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!

[JTGB]

It's the worst update ever!!
Hard to read, won't go to landscape and I absolutely HATE it. Please allow us to have access to the old version. If this stays I will be looking for a different device.

[Boca781]

You can download the Sept 8th, 2023 version as an Ayy pee kay from ay pee kay mirror.  Install it and turn off auto update, and your sleep function will be back to normal!

[BMC286]

I wish I knew what you are telling me to do.

Is the ayy pee kay something within the Fitbit app? Is there a setting in the Fitbit app to turn off auto updates? Is ayy pee kay a separate app? Is the mirror function within same app?
Barbara

[cranberry2]

For the past 2 day, syncing hasn't logged any of my sleep.
If I put the times in manually, it eventually shows the time in 3 stages.  Awake, Restless. Asleep.  That's it!  Ridiculous!!!!!!

[cranberry2]

Is anyone else getting all their sleep stages?  Deep, Light, REM, Awake
The last 2 days, my sleep doesn't sync. I know approx what time I go to sleep, so I manually input that...then get Awake, Restless, Asleep.  No sleep score, no benchmark.  I'm wondering if I'm the only one.  Certainly the sleep data should populate with syncing. 

Are they making this a premium option? If so, why don't they tell us? Oh, that's right, they're not responding to anything!!!!!

[Will4star]

There's a good Reddit guide in what to do. 

The thing you mention is like the install file for the app. So once you've uninstalled the current app you can download this thing from a website that storea lots of old versions of apps, and manually install the old app again. It's quite easy thankfully, and I can confirm it works and doesn't affect past data.

 

 

[JohnVee]

Sadly, you are right! It’s a complete disaster 

[JackieJay]

The new sleep display is terrible. It is harder to read. I just saw a post on Reddit from a doctor who said he has to look at data all day long. The nicely displayed data makes his job easier. The poorly displayed wastes time. The doctor put the new Fitbit app sleep display in poorly displayed category. If there is not a way to get the previous user friendly display back, I will be looking at other fitness trackers. Anyone else feel this way?

[vchUserLongtime]

(Got in touch w chat just to find a way to give feedback): I just wanted to report that the new interface (the new white and purple setup) is so much more difficult for me to use, see, and understand than the original blue. When you hit your sleep goal with the old one the moon would even give you a smiley face. I preferred the old setup much better.  In fact, when I originally woke up to find this new format I almost immediately searched for an email address to share the feedback of how much I instantly disliked this.  Yeah yeah, no one likes change-but I’ve given it a little while now and I like it less and less every day.  Also, it seems like my sleep log is a little off since the update.  Many nights my sleep doesn’t get logged until I’ve already been asleep for an hour or so.  Please give us a chance to use the old interface.

[JohnVee]

Pretty much every one feels the same. 

[vchUserLongtime]

Wish they would listen and change it back or “evolve” it better!

[fluffola]

New update overnight on mine—sleep stages are gone now. 

[sal0139875]

I DO NOT like the new tracker. I would like the old one back. Why did you mess with somehting that was working just fine? Just yeaterday the old one showed up but now this morning it"s gone again. I think most of the people agree that they like the old tracker better.How about making your clients happy.

[Catmandel]

I hate it! Every night  I get a short amount of hours of sleep and 2 “other” sleep periods because I got up to use bathroom and didn’t get back fast enough for your new “system”.

it serves no useful purpose that I know-it sure won’t change my sleep habits!

please make it optional so I can turn it off or go back to the old way.

[Pinkladylmdr]

New design has removed functionality, which is something you continually do with these so called improvements. I have had a fitbit for 12 years. At this point seriously considering dumping it and looking for an alternative. Ever since Google ownership features and functionality have been removed,  together with decreased usability in the app. Google you suck!!!!!!! Oh and I won't be changing to a Google pixel either, nice try.

[Molly1999]

I don’t understand how anyone thought this was an improvement. It’s much harder to read than the old format. Please revert or give us the option to switch back

[viviannecarey]

Absolutely. That is all that I want too! To be able to switch back!

[viviannecarey]

Right. I woke up and got dressed at 1:32 am!!! Get your act together Fitbit!!!

[txmonkey]

I hate the new look of the sleep data screen. Fitbit was superior to other fitness trackers because of the sleep tracking's ease of understanding as well as being very easy on these sensitive eyes. I can't even look at the data and make sense of it any more.  Not all progress is good. 

[Jennylpaul]

I absolutely hate the redesign of sleep stats. The sleep stats are one the main reasons I use the Fitbit over my Apple Watch and it now gives so little detail it’s pointless. Everything is crammed into one tiny screen and I can’t actually see when the REM cycles occurred because the bottom legend now only shows three times instead of hourly. I looked forward to reviewing the stats each morning and now I likely won’t even bother looking at it. Please consider bringing the old design back, I see this new design as a downgrade and I will be cancelling premium soon if the old design is not brought back to return to Apple Watch.