Many things I love but needs some extras
I love reading my heart rate, blood oxygen level checks, learning so much about my sleep and even the good feeling when I read my steps, calorie burns, and activity points achieved.
Some things that could use some tweaking include a smaller face plate for the smaller wrist band(a little bulky on a small wrist); better tracking of mild activity(like when I’m cooking or cleaning but getting reminders that it’s time to move?); more suggestions for better sleep that don’t include meditation or maybe suggestions for getting back to sleep if you wake up in the middle of the night; if the workout videos could include sound prompts at end of times and circuits plus more prompts of what exercise coming up next; and more positive reinforcement prompts during the day like when I take the stairs or walk for 5 minutes but didn’t start my walking exercise timer.
But so far it has been helpful and encouraging to reach for goals.
Some things that could use some tweaking include a smaller face plate for the smaller wrist band(a little bulky on a small wrist); better tracking of mild activity(like when I’m cooking or cleaning but getting reminders that it’s time to move?); more suggestions for better sleep that don’t include meditation or maybe suggestions for getting back to sleep if you wake up in the middle of the night; if the workout videos could include sound prompts at end of times and circuits plus more prompts of what exercise coming up next; and more positive reinforcement prompts during the day like when I take the stairs or walk for 5 minutes but didn’t start my walking exercise timer.
But so far it has been helpful and encouraging to reach for goals.
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Halo review
Sleep tracking needs a lot of improvement. It doesn't actually register sleep unless it's during normal sleep hours. Naps need to count, not everyone can physically sleep enough in one chunk of sleep. One of them continually shuts off as soon as it's taken off, and takes thirty minutes of playing with the charger to get it to actually try to find a signal again. the watch. It's great and easy to use. The app is pretty good also, although I would like more sleep help options, also it says that all three of us are sleeping very badly. My boyfriend's band says he is awake, when he is snoring. I know it's not right. Maybe we could have an option to actually say I'm going to bed and I'm up, naps aren't considered as sleep either. I'm sure it's considered sedentary time, but that's how some people get their sleep, I'm disabled and pain sometimes keeps me up, maybe we are dreaming during the night and the app thinks we are awake? Also one of our watches just today decided that it doesn't want to be con ected to the phone except when it's plugged in. I have reset the phone and app but it's still not working, so there is also that.
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Halo view usage
The apps are great. I enjoy the sleep,health tracking, ability to see recipes, plan meals. I use the sleep programs almost nightly. However, they are flawed. You are supposed to be able to fall asleep before the actual video/yoga nidra, etc ends. If this happens-falling asleep. it we start up again apipproximately 4 hours after the initial sleep program. It’s very frustrating to be woken up when the goal was for the app to help you go to sleep.
I have done updates to the app even completely deleted my Halo View app to stArt over again , losing all my data. Unfortunenatly, ITS STILL HAPPENING AND VERY FRUSTRATING. IVE CONTACT TECH SUPPORT AND did tS
W HAT THEY ASKED. ITS NIT WORKING. IM PRETTY DIAAPPOINTED.
I also wish when you logged in exercises, you can Change the details such as the start and end time easier, the distance for certain. The band never matches what my treadmill or bike or exercise video claims has been achieved. At least those things could by changed on Fitbit easily.
I’m really hoping for so updates to stop the random night interruptions of my sleep.
I have done updates to the app even completely deleted my Halo View app to stArt over again , losing all my data. Unfortunenatly, ITS STILL HAPPENING AND VERY FRUSTRATING. IVE CONTACT TECH SUPPORT AND did tS
W HAT THEY ASKED. ITS NIT WORKING. IM PRETTY DIAAPPOINTED.
I also wish when you logged in exercises, you can Change the details such as the start and end time easier, the distance for certain. The band never matches what my treadmill or bike or exercise video claims has been achieved. At least those things could by changed on Fitbit easily.
I’m really hoping for so updates to stop the random night interruptions of my sleep.
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No Heart Rate Tracking / Way to Disable Calorie Counting
I wanted this to function as a way to see how my heart rate fluctuates on a graph as I have tachycardia and want to show evidence of it and try to lower my average heart rate (which people do by working out!)
I’m not sure if the app knows my baseline is a bit higher or not.
Also- you can’t disable the calorie burner tab. I am a survivor of an eating disorder and seeing calorie counts is very distressing.
I just wanted this to function as a sleep tracker, watch, and heart monitor but I feel as though it’s way more geared towards fitness tracking. It would be nice if we could just get rid of the widgets and such we don’t need. Atleast the calorie count isn’t available on the clock itself, but it’s still really sad a health app wouldn’t give users the chance to disable the feature from showing up.
I got this as part of the planet fitness deal, which I didn’t know locked me into a 2 year membership that cost $68 or something to cancel. In the end I paid way more in the long run, but atleast the watch isn’t too bulky? Usually I find watches to be very annoying. Im just upset the feature I thought it had aren’t there. It seems like it DOES track heart rate but not on an easily accessible graph- it’s just using it for the activity points.
I’m not sure if the app knows my baseline is a bit higher or not.
Also- you can’t disable the calorie burner tab. I am a survivor of an eating disorder and seeing calorie counts is very distressing.
I just wanted this to function as a sleep tracker, watch, and heart monitor but I feel as though it’s way more geared towards fitness tracking. It would be nice if we could just get rid of the widgets and such we don’t need. Atleast the calorie count isn’t available on the clock itself, but it’s still really sad a health app wouldn’t give users the chance to disable the feature from showing up.
I got this as part of the planet fitness deal, which I didn’t know locked me into a 2 year membership that cost $68 or something to cancel. In the end I paid way more in the long run, but atleast the watch isn’t too bulky? Usually I find watches to be very annoying. Im just upset the feature I thought it had aren’t there. It seems like it DOES track heart rate but not on an easily accessible graph- it’s just using it for the activity points.
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It's good but fitbit is better
I like the halo. Nice that it doesn't have a screen, syncs to your phone when you need to look at data, and is comfortable. But, my old fitbit was just better. Especially for tracking sleep. The halo only takes between 10pm and 6am because that's what I told it to do. If I wake up in the middle of the night, it doesn't always track the awake time and if I take a nap in the middle of the day. It doesn't track. Example..I didn't sleep well the other night and I woke up at 1:30am. The 20 min I was awake wasn't tracked. I woke up at 5am and played on my phone for an hour, halo tracked that as me sleeping. I finally went back to sleep at 6am and slept for 2.5 hours, but since that was outside my sleep time, it doesn't show on my tracker. Battery, heart rate, and activity is also better or same on fitbit and fitbit is better in the water since they don't have a fabric band. More expensive, but Fitbit is still the standard.
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