Long-term Fitbit fans have some reason to be a bit miffed with the fitness giant, after a couple of years of feature cuts and simplifications, but one section of the app has been given a solid overhaul.
It’s a classic Fitbit strength: sleep tracking.
As detailed on the Fitbit blog, the company’s sleep tracking has been given a revamp.
“We’ve redesigned the Sleep experience in the Fitbit app – now it’s even easier to track your sleep patterns,” says Fitbit.
Some characteristics parts remain, such as the way different sleep zones are relayed using a multi-color graph.
More data is crammed into a single sleep screen too, collating your sleep score and those all-important sleep zones.
This might be considered a slight move away from the clean and simple style Fitbit has preferred in the past.
There’s precendent for this, of course. In the last year and change, Apple has brought a significant number of higher-end features to its Watch series, making the entire family a better set of Garmin rivals than it has been before.
Another change to the Fitbit sleep interface is the abiltiy to scrub through the sleep graph by dragging your finger across it. Again, this is found in some other platforms’ use of graphs including Garmin Connect’s.
This should make it a bit easier to discern, for example, exactly when you woke up during the night.
The new layout also claims to make it easier to see your sleeping patterns over longer periods, most notably over a month. Each night’s sleep becomes a vertical line, making it visually almost completely intuitive to recognize changes in patterns on when you head to bed, wake up, and the duration of sleep sessions.
Fitbit is asking users to comment on the changes over at the Fitbit Community forums, if you’d like you have your say.