I’m very frustrated that for years as a Fitbit user I was able to log my twice weekly pickleball sessions as ‘Pickleball’, at some point since the Google takeover the ability to do this disappeared. I used to be able to do it in one of three ways. Firstly, I could edit the name of a completed, automatically logged, activity (which would invariable say “sport” or “aerobic activity”) to correctly show what I had actually done. Editing offered me a drop down list of numerous activities and sports, and if the desired one wasn’t in the list, there was also a free text entry option so you could specify whatever you wanted. Secondly, If I wanted to manually record an activity, I was presented with a dropdown list that included pickleball (I’m unsure if it appeared there at the outset, or as a result of my having entered it at some point in free text mode following which it always appeared in the list). At some point after Google took over all of these naming options disappeared. Now it seems that when I manually log an activity I can only choose to wrongly label it something from a fixed list, that doesn’t include pickleball. And once a session is recorded - whether automatically recognised, or manually, there is no ability to amend the description of the activity.
Having raised this in another part of the Fitbit Community forum, I gather that users of the Android app CAN still record activities accurately in the way that I always used to be able to do, but can no longer. This is deeply frustrating. I don’t want to believe that it’s a calculated move to disadvantage iOS users, and either shed them over time so that Fitbit no longer has to update for iOS systems, or - worse - to try to persuade iOS users to replace their Apple phones with Android ones, but it’s hard not to see this as deliberate. If so, it’s pretty unacceptable discrimination again loyal long-term Fitbit users. Please tell me that this is not what it is, and that this issue WILL be fixed!
