Receive reminders on your Fitbit device that encourage healthy behaviors.
Important: Reminders are turned off while you’re asleep.
Reminders to move
Stay active during the day with an hourly activity goal and reminders to move.
A reminder to move is a notification that cues you to walk at least 250 steps per hour to help you meet your hourly activity goal. If you haven’t walked 250 steps, the reminder appears on your device at 10 minutes before the hour (for example, at 10:50 a.m.) and causes your device to vibrate.
To start, your hourly activity goal is to take at least 250 steps per hour (which equals a few minutes of walking) from 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., 7 days a week. You can adjust the hours that you track your goal and receive reminders to move.
Note that activities that don’t include steps, such as spinning, won’t count toward your goal. If you miss your goal, you can’t make it up by taking extra steps the next hour.
To change your goal, see Track your health and fitness goals with Google Health.
Research shows that sitting for long periods of time is linked with a higher risk of health issues, including obesity, increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, and abnormal cholesterol levels (source). Even if you meet daily exercise guidelines, extended sitting can impact your health (source). Moving a few minutes every hour can help to reduce the negative effects of sitting (source).
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Open the Google Health app
and tap the Fitness tab
.
- Scroll, next to "Recent activities".
- Tap All activities.
- From the clock screen, swipe up to find your Exercise days or on some devices open Google Health
- On the Hourly Activity tile
, see how many steps you took this hour.
- Swipe to see how many hours you met your goal today.
- Press the crown, swipe up to the Google Health app
- Swipe to the Hourly Activity card
- Tap the card for more details.
To change when you receive reminders to move, change the hours or days of the week that you track your hourly activity goal (for example, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays).
To change your goal, see Track your health and fitness goals with Google Health.
On most devices, you can turn off notifications so you temporarily don’t get reminders to move. For instructions, check Change phone notifications on my Fitbit device.
To permanently turn reminders to move off:
- At the top left, tap Connections
your device
- Tap Google Health reminders & alerts
- Tap Get reminders to turn it on or off.
Note: Google Pixel Watch 4 will have reminders to move off by default.