My post isn’t about a technical problem, but a frustration with the app continuing to trade granularity and information content for a more minimalistic aesthetic.
The most important FitBit feature to me is the heart rate monitor. There is a great deal of information embedded in your heart rate, particularly your resting heart rate. I can track my fitness, stress impacts, monthly cycle, and illness to name a few.
Lately, the app updated the RHR UI and greatly simplified the charts showing those numbers over time. Whereas before I could see a continuous curve with granularity down to the day for time spans up to a year at a time, now I see discrete “dots” for each month or week as soon as I look at timespans longer than 1 week. Even the y axes are oversimplified, and show no granularity between about three values at a time.
This is very frustrating because that data used to tell me a lot. I relied on the fine granularity to help me understand how different things affect my RHR. In 2018 I tracked the progression of my pneumonia over a couple of weeks and could pinpoint when the antibiotics took effect, and when the illness returned later. That wouldn’t be possible today given I can’t see anything more than a month’s number in 1-year view, or a week I’m 3-month view.
Please forego the trend of a minimalistic aesthetic that is so popular with corporations right now, and restore the high information content. I’d like to look at my data again.
