Home screen acting strange

[Podunk]

I am using a charge for and the Fitbit app on my iPhone and VoiceOver as a screen reader.

The home screen on the app has come up in a number of different variations. The first is it comes up in the normal format similar to what I have always had. The second format after exercise and exercise log the voiceover reads button. I have clicked on the button and it turns out to be the exercise information. The third variation it comes up as two pages the first page ends with the last two fields being exercise and exercise log followed by the page delineator followed by button and button. I have clicked on both of the unlabeled buttons and one is the exercise button and the second is the exercise log. Followed by the rest of the information that was originally on the first page of the home screen. I cannot deliberately replicate the way to get to the beans.

this change happened after the most recent Fitbit software update and as said above it has never happened before.

[SunsetRunner · Accepted solution]

Hello @Podunk 

I hope I can describe in detail what I see so that you can visualize it and follow along.

There is a new format as you stated in your post. You said the Fitbit App home page is how you remember it except for the changes you described. I’ll try my best to describe what I see and how to navigate through it. 

After you scroll down to your exercise tile (which contains everything you remember including the plus sign to add a new exercise) there is a new tile that appears just under the Exercise Tile. It is a scrolling list of all the exercises you have entered for the day. (The scrolling is going left)

If you have entered one exercise for the day it will list what exercise you did and details of that exercise. If you have entered two exercises for the day the tile will have two dots at the bottom edge (centered) on that tile indicating both exercises. The first dot will show the first exercise you did and details about it. To see the second exercise you entered you can scroll left and the next exercise will appear along with its details. The dots in the tile will increase with each new exercise and allows you to scroll left to see each exercise in detail. You can pause on each exercise as you scroll through them and tap the exercise.

But honestly that simply just brings you back to the list of exercises you did for the day. It’s as if you disregarded this “new feature area” and you went though the regular exercise tile (that your used to navigating through) when you just tap the exercise tile format. Going the path you took originally, before the update, would still end at the same results as before if no changes occurred. 

Honestly @Podunk I can certainly see how navigating through this particular new section of the Fitbit App would be daunting to go through using a voiceover. I personally would disregard this new area as it takes you down a rabbit hole. I’d just navigate the way you are familiar with and trust me you are not missing any information by using the new feature. The new feature just takes you straight back to the location of the old way of doing it before the update.

😃I hope this clarifies things for you and provides you with an answer. Please let me know if this helps. Also let me know if you need more detailed descriptions. I’ll be happy to help. 

[Podunk]

Megabyte, you are right. It appears that the change will not benefit me. I only wish they had put an identifier next to the buttons to eliminate confusion as to what they represented.

[SunsetRunner]

I agree @Podunk. Unfortunately it’s more of a visual tile as you scroll left through the exercises. Picture of the exercise and brief detail description is all it is. 

😉 I’m happy I was able to help clarify what you were confused about and hopefully just navigating through as you normally did before the update is sufficient. Enjoy the rest of your evening.