How to Delete or Edit Custom Foods

[Doonhamer]

I have been unable to find how to delete or edit custom foods. How can I do this? If this is not possible, why not?

Moderator Edit: Clarified Subject.

[MarcoGFitbit · Accepted solution]

Hello @Doonhamer, have a warm welcome to the Fitbit Community, it's great to have you on board. 

Thanks for your participation in the forums, you can definitely delete Custom Foods in the Fitbit app. In order to achieve this please follow the following steps:

• Open the Fitbit app and tap on the Food tile
• Select CUSTOM
• Tap on the EDIT button on the top left corner.

• You will notice to the side of each custom food the icon changed to a little pencil. Tap on the Custom Food you'd like to delete.
• Tap on Delete Custom Food and confirm it when asked. Please note that you can also Edit the Custom Food here too. 

I hope this can be helpful, give it a try and keep me posted in case you need anything else. 

[Doonhamer]

Thank you and yes it works.

Regards, Terry

[MarcoGFitbit]

Hello @Doonhamer, I hope you're having a great day, thanks for taking the time to reply and letting me know the steps I provided were helpful to you. 

In case you have some spare time, I would like to invite you to visit our Discussions board where you will find great tips and encouragement from other members and if there's anything else I can do for you, please keep me posted.

Happy stepping! 

[Durtman45]

I go to custom and a > is on the right of the food not a edit pencil. Selecting > pulls up the food data. Don’t see a pencil any where. Please Help!

[MarcoGFitbit]

Hello @Durtman45, have a warm welcome to the Fitbit Community, it's great to have you on board. 

I appreciate your participation in the Forums and for sharing your experience with us. At this moment our team is aware of this situation that's preventing users from editing their food logs in the Fitbit app. Once we have more to share about this issue, we'll make sure to post it here in the official Forums. In the meantime, please go to the Food Section of the online Dashboard and edit your food logs there. 

Thanks for your patience and understanding, have a great day. 

[RGRodgers]

Do you have an ETA for this fix?  If it has been implemented, how can it be done?  If not, when?  Thanks.

Just found it at https://www.fitbit.com/foods/log.  Under Favorites, click Edit My Foods.

The problem here is that I use the Windows app and it works very differently than fitibit.com.  It certainly doesn't have all the fitbit.com functions, case in point. 

[MarcoGFitbit]

Hello @RGRodgers thanks for joining the conversation, it's great to have you on board the Fitbit Community. 

First of all, I would like to apologize for the delay in the response. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. At this moment, we don't have a specific timeframe for when this situation will be resolved, but please keep an eye on the official Forums and we will post any update here. 

Thanks for your patience and understanding, have a great day. 

[brucesharon]

Dear Moderator,

There is no edit button with the newer updated iOS fit app.

please confirm this.

I looked at my phone and iPad. No edit button.

My IOS is up to date.

Thanks!

Bruce

[tak103]

I also do not see an edit button for custom food.  When will this be fixed?

[tak103]

I thought I would let you all know I just happened to put my finger on the custom food item I wanted to edit and slid my finger to the left.  It gave me the option to edit/delete that food line item.  from there you can edit the custom item fields you need to edit or delete the custom food item all together

[brucesharon]

Great! That feature changed with the newer OS. Thanks!

Sent from my iPad

[RHepp]

I don’t have the edit button. I need to edit a custom food. Thanks 

[SunsetRunner]

THANK YOU!! geez, this has been driving me crazy. They removed the "edit" button from the top left corner. Why? Who knows. But the hold and swipe left thing works. Don't know why the changed it to a hidden feature, but grateful you have decoded it for us! 

[SunsetRunner]

See tak103's solution

[Exercise-33]

What happens when there is no edit button? (I am on the latest version of iOS and have installed the latest Fitbit update)

[brucesharon]

Hi. 
Swipe the custom food  from the right to delete or edit.

[AAnnee]

There is no ‘EDIT’ on the left upper corner of my screen. I have a Fitbit 3. I’ve tried both my iPhone and iPad. It’s just not there.

[SunsetRunner]

On your smartphone, lightly touch & hold the item. A swipe will show up to the right of the item. Drag left, the options will appear.

[brucesharon]

In custom foods, swipe left from the right side of the food entry.
Edit and delete will show.

Example: apple. slide left from right side of the rectangle.
Notice that the food entry disappears,