Friends screen and manually entered steps

[heine]

Hi All

My Surge is in for a repair. I have in the interim been using a non Fitbit device to track my steps. At the end of the day , I then manually enter my steps done on the web browser. It updates my profile fine , but it doesn't reflect on the friends ranking screen. Is this a known issue ,and is there a workaround. I hate the fact that I'm comming last in the rankings 

[SteveH · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, this is the way it works and there isn't a way round it. Only steps directly tracked by the fitbit count towards challenges (and badges).

[heine]

Thanks for the response. Guess it makes sense , otherwise it would be too easy to cheat. This way you're only fooling yourself

[TK71]

Hi Steve,

How do you manually enter steps. I didn't see that as an option on the website. just distance.

thanks,

Tom

[SteveH]

@TK71 you log a walk by going to https://www.fitbit.com/activities and clicking the walk icon near the bottom. Then change the distance unit from miles to steps.

[TK71]

thank you Steve. I didn't see the steps option the first time. Appreciate the quick reply!

[TK71]

thank you Steve!


Thank you,

Tom