How to Hide Sleep Data in the Fitbit App

Summary

Some research studies may wish to prevent the Fitbit app from providing feedback on a participant's sleep. This article summarizes how to hide the sleep tile within the Fitbit app.

Steps

Step 1 - Once a Fitbit has been initialized and connected to the device.

1. Open the Fitbit app.
2. Tap on 'Edit' in the top right corner of the app.
3. Click on the 'X' in the top right corner of the sleep tile
   1. This will hide the sleep data from appearing as a summary when the Fitbit app is opened.

Notes

• It is important to stress to the participant that the sleep data and any sleep feedback they may see from Fitbit should be ignored and not taken as accurate.
• Inform the participant not to adjust any settings within the app (especially editing visible tiles).
• Though the sleep tile is hidden, sleep data is still being logged.

Resources

• None.

About the Author

Moony Rizvydeen is a clinical research coordinator at the Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Lab in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Michigan. Moony has worked on numerous sleep research, actigraphy, and wearable studies under Dr. Helen Burgess. Moony is currently involved in setting up a new R01 study in the SCRL - the 'IBD Sleep Study' - which plans on investigating the effect of light treatment and sleep stabilization on participants with clinically diagnosed Inflammatory Bowel Disease.   |   |