Please note that fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation.
Does my fitbit flex track floors.
Your tracker should vibrate.
Press the tracker into the charging cable.
Mobiletrack lets you use the fitbit app without a fitbit device by using your phone s sensors to track basic activity data including steps distance and calories burned.
Your steps will still count but as you say you need to gain 10 feet in height whilst walking to get a floor so it looks like you will miss out on this.
Mobiletrack does not track floors sleep or active minutes.
Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation.
Check the sleep tile to see your sleep information.
Track a variety of stats including steps taken floors climbed distance traveled and calories burned with your fitbit device.
It does not register floors when you go down.
Choose to track a variety of other stats including sleep exercise water and food intake weight and menstrual health in the fitbit.
All fitbit devices track steps taken and active zone minutes except fitbit alta fitbit blaze fitbit charge 2 fitbit charge 3 fitbit flex 2 fitbit inspire and fitbit inspire hr which track active minutes additional core stats vary based on your device.
Your tracker registers a floor when it detects continuous motion combined with an elevation gain of about 10 feet.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
To answer your question.
It s inner altimeter will calculate altitude based on atmospheric pressure.
In this case there are a couple of things that may be causing your tracker to record extra floors.
From the fitbit website.
10 feet is an average between residential and commercial floor heights.
How does my fitbit device calculate my daily activity.
If you don t see the sleep tile tap settings at the bottom of fitbit today and make sure you turned on the sleep tile.
I don t track the floors i just thought it curious that it counted 16 today when always before it 1 maybe 2.
Swipe up from the clock face to see fitbit today.
In addition to activity tracking you also have access to other app features such as.
Hi dan66 i think your thread title of does flex 2 track floors caused a little confusion there.
To learn more about all the ways you can track your activity see how do i track my activity with my fitbit device.
Plug your charging cable into the usb port on your computer then remove the tracker from the wristband.
You may have to swipe up to find it.
Swipe left on the sleep tile to see your patterns or time spent in each sleep stage and your sleep history for the past week.
As wtksk8r mentioned your device registers one floor when you climb about 10 feet at one time.