Missing many features in the app update

[AiméeB]

As others have said, the new app is a disaster in terms of design and content. For example: Is there a way to see the zones minutes per week, several weeks in a row not as bar plots but as lists? You can only see the average per day 

other example: before you would see the day zone minute wheel with green, yellow and red and now it’s shades of pale green. Not visual at all. 
Generally the information is graphically not well visible anymore, it’s cluttered and not contrasted.  
Some sections like sleep have not changed, fortunately. All that is changed is for the worse and I don’t normally mind change. 

my main reason to stay with Fitbit rather than get an Apple Watch had been the fact that I was happy with the app. When it’s time to change device, I probably will not stay with Fitbit 

[MelvinL]

Totally agree. I seriously do not know what is Fitbit doing. I chose Fitbit many years ago over other brands because of the user friendly App design. Sadly, with each update of the App, things are getting from good to bad to worse.

First is the re-designed dashboard few months back, which is now boring, no colours which makes it hard to read, and lots of scrolling required as everything is very spaced out.

Next with this latest update, things are even worse. I believe most people use Fitbit to track our activities and exercises. The Fitbit tracks so much data, but now a lot of details are gone. This is the first time I am seeing an app update with lesser features than before. This is a joke.
- Can no longer see the full list of recorded activities in one screen. We now have to select week by week just to check back on our activities over past 1-2 weeks.
- Fitbit is able to auto-track an activity/exercise, but we now cannot change the name of it. If an activity is not accurately recognised, it is just going to be "Sport".
- Heart rate graph and heart rate zones over the period of the activity is now missing. 
- For auto-tracked "Sport", I only see Duration, Steps, and Energy burned. Any free/cheap fitness tracker can also provide this information.

If this is the case, Fitbit is not any better than the free fitness trackers that my government is giving out to the community, or any other trackers we get free from promotional or sporting events. Why spend money and effort to "update" the app only to make it worse, and with less features?

[easyeno7]

I am also dismayed by the changes.  I mainly used the app to track my heart rate zones during exercise.  Those stats are no longer displayed with a graph and color.  I can’t see how my heart progressed during the exercise.  I have used it for four years since my cardiac rehab.  Unless it returns I will need to find a better product.  I hate when programming changes make things worse instead of improving them.  So sad.

I had to update my post.  The heart rate graph and bar chart sometimes appears when reviewing an exercise’s detail.  Most of the time it doesn’t.  It is very slow to appear when it does.  I can go into an exercise detail, and it will be there once.  The next time it will have disappeared.  I can’t wait to try a gps exercise, but the weather is not good right now.  The app used to map my bike rides with speeds and heart rates.  I suspect I will be disappointed further.  I hope this gets corrected with an app fix/ipdate update soon.

[Frenchi54]

I totally agree. The app is getting worse and worse… The ugly design might be one thing, I can live with it, but what happened to all the missing features like showing the heart rate for the exercises?! 
I feel like a fool for having purchased fitbit. This is a health and sports watch, how can you remove the heart rate from the exercises? 
I've never seen such a disastrous app update, or should I say down-date…

[mercbubble42]

Someone on another community post found a way to edit/recategorize our exercises in the app! 

In Today, select Exercise Days, then select 3 dots in upper right corner, and Manage Data. Scroll down and select Exercise (Exercise Logs, GPS Tracking). Select teal text link that says REVIEW YOUR DATA below third paragraph of text. That brings you back to the old app format of the exercise data so that you can recategorize workouts as you wish. Save and go back to the new (ugly, clunky, awful) app.

[easyeno7]

Wow! I probably would not have figured that out on my own.

[Sue-Sue]

Wow, thanks for this! I was almost there while trying to find a setting to give me back the old exercise data display. Got as far as the “review your data” link, but when my exercises were displayed, I figured I had hit a dead end since it didn’t give me any more setting options. If I had just gone one step further… 🤦🏻‍:female_sign:😂

[Nankypoo]

Thank you SO much!!!  It worked.  I have been SO frustrated with the new app.  Your method restored my data.  I am amazed!  

[grayoo]

Thx for this, but how do you save? Can't see the option.  Thx

[Nankypoo]

Great question.  I would like to know how to save as well.  As soon as I revert to the main screen it forgets and goes back to the useless display.  I would love to save this fix permanently.

[lcox0411]

WOW, how inconvenient is this?  I just ordered an Apple Watch.  GODBYE FITBIT!

[AiméeB]

Please come back and tell us if you were happy with the move…

still waiting a bit to see if Fitbit will listen to us …

[mcw53]

Here's my post with screenshots on how to recategorize your exercises.

[SillyBeanz]

Thank you for posting this! I was so frustrated that I couldn’t change my generic workouts to their specific exercise (like barre, stationary bike, etc) or correct mid-recognized workouts like I used to be able to. Now I can again! Yay! (Though of course, I wish it was as easy as it was before).