Still exploring my new Google Fitbit, but my first impression? Pretty awesome! 🤩

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I built Health Blueprint. Plug in your 30-day Fitbit averages (resting HR, HRV, cardio fitness, sleep, steps) and see how old your body really is. It also has 30+ plain-English research topics like sleep, HRV and protein, fasting etc.

https://health-blueprint.pages.dev

It's free with no sign-up, and feedback is welcome!

The three Health Guardian features (blood pressure trends, blood glucose trends, breathing quality) were initially listed for Fitbit Air when announced.

Then it was rolled back to only blood pressure and glucose.

In the Google Health app under sleep breathing quality it says "not available with this device".

Today, I've had the email about Health Guardian and it has finally appeared under Settings. But look at this screenshot. It says all three features are available if I upgrade to Premium. I could also have ECG "available with a device upgrade".

But apparently the "sleep breathing quality" doesn't need a device upgrade. Well done Google, such a great service.

Edit: I subscribed, and the breathing quality immediately moved to "available with device upgrade". Ok well that's straight to a complaint and refund.

Edit2: Refund immediately approved and processed. Now breathing quality has moved back to "available with premium" again. FFS Google you bunch of useless cunts.

Edit3: This is in the UK. Don't know about elsewhere.

Does anyone else find it annoying that Fitbit doesn't show the time while you're viewing notifications?

Whenever I receive a notification, I have to dismiss it to see the time. If I have five notifications stacked up, I have to press the button five times just to get back to the clock.

I wish there were an option to check the time without having to clear or cycle through every notification. It seems like such a basic usability feature. Is there a setting I'm missing, or is this just how Fitbit works?

For comparison, most smartwatches display the time in small font at the top of the screen, even when you're viewing notifications, so you can check the time at a glance without dismissing them.

got my fitbit partly for sleep tracking and honestly wish i hadnt started. every morning i check the score and if its below 80 my brain decides im tired regardless of how i actually feel. its like the number replaces my own sense of how i slept. the worst part is lying in bed knowing its tracking me. like i can feel myself trying to fall asleep harder which obviously makes it worse. anyone else deal with this? did you turn off sleep tracking entirely or find a way to just not look at it? i like the step counting and workout tracking but the sleep part might be doing more harm than good

not the main point but i am really hopeful that this will benefit fitbit users a lot. idea is when i started building recovery, strain and sleep scores, the math didn't worry me much. what worried me was getting a letter from one of the big wearable companies. their scores are black boxes, and anything that looks like a copy of a black box is asking for trouble.

so i went the other way. none of the scores in FitnessRec are black boxes:

- every score (sleep, recovery, strain, stress, biological age) has an algorithm breakdown: which of your numbers it used, each step of the formula, and the papers it's based on

- don't like my formula? rebuild it in flow studio. pull in your own data (fitbit, other watches, food diary, labs), write the formula, pick a gauge or chart, and pin it to your diary

- the card you build can sit on your home screen as a widget, and every card has a share image (pics 3 and 4)

"why isn't it open source then?" two reasons:

1. people share flows and workout programs with each other: they send them in chats and post them to a feed. that needs accounts, a server and moderation, so you can't really self-host it
2. reading fitbit data through the google health api for anyone other than yourself means passing google's restricted-scope verification plus a yearly CASA security assessment. with a self-hosted copy, every person would have to go through that themselves. i passed it this month so you don't have to

so the code is closed, but the scoring is open: you can see how every number is made, and you can change it.

free: the daily scores and their breakdowns, building and running your own flows, one pinned card. gold adds more pinned cards, widgets and AI steps in flows.

iOS, Android, web and desktop (windows, Mac, linux) : https://fitnessrec.com

tell me which score feels off, or show me a flow you built. happy to help wire one up.

Fitbit Edge, what are people's thoughts if they got there's? I am waiting for mine tomorrow, got the Stephen Curry 🏀 🍛 edition!

Howdy - as per the title.

I had the Fitbit Edge Steph Curry edition on pre-order, together with 2 extra straps - the magnetic one, and the metal links one. I gently took the Steph Curry band off, as per the instructions, by using the two lug release switches. It sort of came off really in a spongey way, bit weird. I put the metal links one on, clicked in without issue, firm and nicely connected. I adjusted my links band, then I tried the magnetic strap - again the metal links band released sturdily and well, and the magnetic band clicked in as firmly. I tried the Steph Curry band again, and it's just not connecting at all. I've blasted it with compressed air in case theres something stopping it, but honestly, it feels like a fault.

I'm on the case with Google, but thought I'd share in case anyone else has experienced the same. The band looks normal - no issues, breakages or wear - it just won't go in. Worried it is a manufacturing defect...

I just found that out, which kinda sucks.

You can enable always on display for the watch overall in Google health, it'll do the same dimming that always on did for the Charge 6.

You can set always on hours, at least.

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Apparently I got in some REM while I was watching The Haunting of Bly Manor in bed lol!! Does anyone else have this issue? Is it just because I’m not really moving? Or maybe a combo of stillness and my BPM lowering? I have a high resting BPM and it gets even higher when I’m standing and moving around (potentially have POTS or some kind of dysautonomia that affects my heart rate). Maybe my BPM spiking during jump scares mimics how my BPM rises when I hit REM? My poor heart health accidentally trained the Fitbit to think anything under 80 BPM means I’m asleep I guess.

Do not delete your google health account if you plan on re-opening one or getting a "fresh start".

Giving some context, downloaded Google Health in anticipation for the Fitbit Air back in ~May/June wanted my Garmin/Apple Health data to populate. Decided to delete the app to get a fresh start, bought the Fitbit Air this month and found out I can't login.

• Contacted Google Health Support via Phone 10/16, rep said it'll take 90 days to complete deletion
• Contacted Google Health Support via Chat 10/16, rep said he will escalate and investigate whether the error can be fixed
• Received follow up 10/17 saying since I deleted the account, I'll have to use another email; Asked rep to check again, because that doesn't seem righL
• Last follow up saying he checked all resources within the org and I have to use another account

Hope this helps to inform other people in the same boat or thinking about doing this!

If you've heard otherwise please let me know as I'm still on the fence about it. If I'll have to open another gmail just to use the band I might just stick to Garmin/Apple watch... or even worse Whoop LOL

Just got my Fitbit Edge today, and notifications are not working at all. No incoming calls, no app notifications, nothing.

I'm using an iPhone 17 Pro. All permissions are enabled, the app is up to date, and health data syncs perfectly fine.

Apparently, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup, and Stuff have all reported similar issues. Google has reportedly acknowledged the problem and promised a future update. One reviewer managed to fix it with a factory reset and re-pairing, but that's not guaranteed.

Honestly, it's ridiculous that a brand-new $180 device can't handle basic notifications out of the box. I'm not interested in factory-resetting something I literally just bought.

Is anyone else experiencing this, and has anyone found a fix without resetting the device?

I wanted to log my football workout but there was no option for it so i choose sports and my band detected 9 steps!!!??? How is that possible, it detects more steps when I sleep 😭

I was confused to get a notification regarding an increase in my resting heart rate and now I keep seeing things about fitness trackers incidentally catching pregnancy early on. My skin temp variation has been increasing this last week as well. All of my other vitals seem to be consistent for about a month. For reference, my cycles are very irregular (I have PMOS), I have one child now, and I oddly enough don’t feel pregnant, but it’s definitely not impossible. And I took a pregnancy test yesterday that was negative, but now I’m not sure, maybe it’s just too early to tell? Anyone had experience with this? Not seeking medical advice, just curious—Anyone have any other insight for these vitals changing in this way?

Yo guys,

I recently got the Fitbit Air and connected it to my POCO Android phone. Everything works fine until I connect my Bluetooth earphones and attend a call.

Whenever I'm on a WhatsApp call or a normal phone call using my Bluetooth earphones, my Fitbit gets disconnected from my phone. 😕

My calls usually last over an hour, so I'm missing all the tracking data during that time.

One more issue: After the call, turning Bluetooth off and on doesn't reconnect the Fitbit. I have to turn Bluetooth off and reconnect it manually.

Has anyone else faced this issue? Is there any fix or setting I should change on my POCO phone to prevent this? Any suggestions would be appreciated!

(Edited with AI)

I've just switched from the charge 6 to the Fitbit edge. There is no option to set reminders to move on the Fitbit edge. What a weird omission.

Anyone else not seeing this option?

Hey there. I received my Edge and I’m really liking it.

I have one question, though—I’m probably being dumb. How can I set a timer while a workout is active?

I need this for resting sets during weight training

Just got my Edge and can't seem to figure out how to customize the quick start exercises. Anyone have any idea?

I know some devices are good and showing signs that your body may be fighting an illness. Has any seen success with this with their Fitbit or Google health?

Hello! Just wondering if its possible to have notifications automatically pop up when AOD is enabled on the new Fitbit Edge? I remember on pixel watch i had to download a mod to get it to work......... right now it just buzzes then i have to rotate wrist to show the notification but that only works half the time. Am I cooked? I kinda need that lol

Can you send messages or cheers to friends on your leaderboard?

Is it just display only with no interaction?