Select users have the opportunity to explore new, experimental capabilities and provide valuable feedback as they’re developed through Fitbit Labs. These users can find Labs in the You tab of the Fitbit app where they can opt-in to try out a lab or join a waitlist.
Testing new capabilities in Fitbit Labs will help Fitbit learn how users interact with these capabilities and how they can be improved. This helps Fitbit provide interesting and actionable information to you about your health and fitness data.
These labs are available for a limited time in Fitbit Labs. You might need a Fitbit Premium subscription or to meet additional eligibility criteria to access them.
Expand AllCollapse AllSelect users can find Fitbit Labs in the You tab of the Fitbit app or a “Now” card invitation on the today page. Each lab within Fitbit Labs may have additional eligibility requirements. To check if you’re eligible to try out any labs:
- From the You tab
in the Fitbit app, check if a Fitbit Labs section is available.
- If yes, tap See all to check which Labs you’re eligible to join.
- Tap a lab to learn more or sign up.
- To join Fitbit Labs, you must first allow your data to be used for research and development. If this setting is off, you can review the Data shared for health research and product development consent when you tap a lab. Read the information and then tap Agree & Continue to turn on data sharing.
For more information on this setting, refer to How is my data used?
- To join Fitbit Labs, you must first allow your data to be used for research and development. If this setting is off, you can review the Data shared for health research and product development consent when you tap a lab. Read the information and then tap Agree & Continue to turn on data sharing.
If you can’t find the Fitbit Labs section or if you get a message that there are no labs available for you right now, check back later. New labs might become available in the future. For a list of the currently available labs, along with any eligibility requirements, refer to Active Labs.
All Fitbit labs
To join any Fitbit Labs, you must turn on the Data shared for health research and product development consent. If you agree, when you use Fitbit products and services, Fitbit and Google will collect and use your data to research and develop new health and wellness products and services or to support health research.
You may opt out of this consent at any time. For details, refer to How do I leave Fitbit Labs?
Individual labs
Fitbit Labs is made up of individual labs. These labs may be powered by various technologies, such as large language models, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, which continuously evolve. You need to opt-in to each lab separately, and some labs may require you to sign an additional consent. Some labs limit you from participating in other labs.
Before you join a lab, you’re given information on what data we collect and how we plan to use it. Lab-specific consents may describe additional data that might be collected and how data is used for research and development of products and services, including those powered by machine learning technologies. For details, refer to lab-specific consents in the Fitbit app or the Active Labs section below.
You can opt out of individual labs at any time.
You can leave individual labs at any time:
- In the Fitbit app, tap your profile picture
Fitbit Settings
- Select the lab and tap Turn off.
- Confirm you want to Turn off the lab.
If you no longer want to share your Fitbit data for research and development:
- In the Fitbit app, tap your profile picture.
- Tap Fitbit settings
- Read through the information in the app and then tap Turn off if you no longer want to share your data.
Tip: Turning off this feature won't delete any existing data.
If you decide you want to participate in Fitbit Labs again, sign up in the You tab .
Some labs are only available in certain locations and languages, and they might have requirements such as an active Fitbit Premium subscription, a minimum age, or other eligibility criteria. Check the Active Labs section below for details on individual labs.
If a lab is currently full, you might find a button to Join the waitlist. You need to wait until more spots open up before you can join the lab. For more information on waitlists, refer to Why does a lab have a waitlist?
Labs are experimental, which means they are available for a limited time and eligibility requirements might change.
The Lab has ended
If a lab comes to the end of its life cycle, it's removed from Fitbit Labs and is no longer available to eligible Fitbit users.
Identifiable data you entered as part of a lab, such as feedback or survey responses (the “Lab Data”), is automatically deleted 6 months after the lab's end date. You may export or delete the Lab Data before that time. For more details, refer to How can I manage my lab data?
Tip: Some labs work by analyzing your Fitbit data from other features in the Fitbit service. Feature data analyzed by a lab but you did not directly enter into a lab, such as step count or sleep score, will not be deleted. It continues to be available in the Today page 
Some labs may become available again in the future as new capabilities are added. You may have the opportunity to continue your participation at that time.
Lab eligibility
If the eligibility requirements for a lab change and/or you no longer meet them, you can no longer participate in the lab you previously joined. The lab appears with a prompt to “regain access” in your Labs settings. If you correct any eligibility requirements (such as resubscribing to Fitbit Premium if it’s required) within 30 days, the lab will become available in Fitbit Labs, and you can resume using it.
We won't collect any new data during the 30-day period while the lab says “regain access,” but some processing may occur. If you correct any eligibility requirements within 30 days, we'll resume data collection as part of the lab. Otherwise, after this period, you need to sign up and consent to the lab again if there are openings.
Labs are open to a limited number of participants. If you're given an option to Join the waitlist, it means the lab is full. Join the waitlist to receive a notification when more spots open up. When you receive the notification that the lab is open, be sure to sign up for the lab through the Fitbit Labs section in the You tab . The additional spots may be limited and you won’t be automatically added to the lab.
Export your lab data
To export identifiable Lab Data, follow the instructions in How do I export my Fitbit data?
Delete your lab data
You may choose to delete identifiable data that you entered as part of a lab (for example, feedback or survey responses). This will delete the selected data type for all the labs you participated in.
- In the Fitbit app, tap your profile picture
- In the “Your data in Fitbit” section, tap Manage data and privacy
- Swipe up to review the “Fitbit Labs & Research” section.
- Select a data type.
- Confirm that you want to delete the data.
Active labs
This lab surveys your energy levels multiple times daily to analyze your responses and provide an evening sleep schedule. This schedule includes suggested bedtimes and wake times to help you get the optimal amount of sleep to meet your needs for the next day.
To get started, you must:
- Use the Fitbit app on an Android phone.
- Be located in the US and use the Fitbit app in English.
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Sign in to the Fitbit app using a Google Account.
- Review and accept the lab-specific consent.
- Make sure you have a sleep log for the day. If you didn’t sleep with one of the devices listed above, you can manually log your sleep in the Fitbit app.
- Have an offer to join the Personalized Sleep Schedule lab on the You tab
Opt-in to the lab to start getting your personalized sleep schedule:
- From the You tab
- Tap See all and check if you find an offer to Get a Personalized Sleep Schedule.
- If yes, tap on the tile and follow the on-screen instructions to turn on the feature.
- Review and accept the lab-specific consent.
- Setup survey and bedtime reminders
- Proceed to take your first survey.
Every morning after you log sleep, you’ll receive a short 2-minute survey with multiple-choice and free-form questions about what might impact your upcoming night’s sleep. Your morning check-in survey is available until 10:00 AM in your app’s timezone.
Throughout the day, you’ll receive three one-question surveys that ask you to rate your energy levels. We use these surveys to help calculate your sleep needs for the following day.
Important: If you don’t complete your evening bedtime check-in before 11:00 PM, you won’t receive a Personalized Sleep Schedule for that day.
Every evening, you’ll receive a short 2-minute survey with multiple-choice and free-form questions about what might impact your upcoming night’s sleep. Your evening check-in survey is available until 11:00 PM in your app’s timeline.
After you complete the evening bedtime check-in, we’ll provide you with a Personalized Sleep Schedule.
After completing your evening bedtime check-in, you’ll receive a personalized sleep schedule that recommends a bedtime and wake time based on your current sleep debt and sleep needs. This calculation is derived from your last night of sleep data and your survey responses throughout the day. For best results, please complete as many of the daily surveys as you can.
If necessary, you’ll be able to adjust your recommended sleep schedule and give us optional feedback about your choice to do so.
When you sign up for the Personalized Sleep Schedule lab, you can enable survey and bedtime reminders. To adjust these settings:
- Open the Fitbit app.
- Tap on your profile picture
- Tap on the setting you’d like to adjust to change the time of the reminder.
- Or, you can choose to enable or disable the notifications for survey and bedtime reminders.
Important: Personalized Sleep Schedule is designed to help you understand the optimal amount of sleep to meet your needs, but it’s not intended to provide medical advice. It should not be used to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease or medical condition.
While Personalized Sleep Schedule can be a helpful tool for learning more about your recommended sleep schedule, there's a few limitations to keep in mind. This feature uses generative AI, which may occasionally generate inaccurate or misleading information. For the best results, be sure to wear your device regularly so Personalized Sleep Schedule has enough information to identify trends.
Many factors can impact your sleep quality. Here are a few key ones:
- Lifestyle Factors:
- Stress: High stress levels can make it difficult to relax and fall asleep.
- Irregular Sleep Schedule: Going to bed and waking up at different times each day can disrupt your body's natural sleep-wake cycle.
- Lack of Physical Activity: Regular exercise can promote better sleep, but try to avoid exercising too close to bedtime.
- Diet: Eating heavy meals or consuming caffeine or alcohol before bed can interfere with sleep.
- Screen Time: The blue light emitted from electronic devices can suppress melatonin production, making it harder to fall asleep.
- Environmental Factors:
- Noise: A noisy environment can make it difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep.
- Light: Exposure to light, especially blue light, can disrupt your sleep. Make sure your bedroom is dark.
- Temperature: A cool, comfortable bedroom temperature is ideal for sleep.
- Medical Conditions:
- Sleep Disorders: Conditions like insomnia, sleep apnea, and restless legs syndrome can significantly impact sleep quality.
- Chronic Pain: Conditions causing chronic pain can make it difficult to get comfortable and fall asleep.
- Other Health Conditions: Thyroid problems, heart conditions, and respiratory problems can also impact sleep.
- Medications:
- Some medications, including certain antidepressants, decongestants, and steroids, can disrupt sleep.
To provide feedback on a particular response, tap the thumbs up or thumbs down icon
. You can provide additional details before submitting your feedback. If you have additional feedback or concerns, contact Fitbit support.
To turn off Personalized Sleep Schedule lab:
- In the Fitbit app, tap your profile picture
- Tap Fitbit Labs
- Confirm you want to Turn off Personalized Sleep Schedule lab.
If you want to participate again in the future, follow the instructions in How do I get started with Personalized Sleep Schedule lab?
Inactive labs
These labs have ended. Thank you for participating to help make Fitbit better.
This lab ended on February 28, 2025.
This lab uses prompts to check for insights. Check the table below for examples.
|
Insight category |
Example |
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Averages |
“What was my average daily step count last month?” |
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Trends |
“How are my Active Zone Minutes trending? |
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Correlations |
“Do my Active Zone Minutes have an impact on my resting heart rate?” |
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Highest or lowest values for a period |
“What day did I sleep the longest last month?” |
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Medians |
“What is the median number of steps I have taken this year?” |
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Personal bests or worsts |
“When was my most restful night of sleep last month?” |
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Comparisons |
“How did my bed time differ on weekends versus weekdays last month?” |
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General explanations and definitions of health and wellness terms |
What is resting heart rate?” |
For best results, wear your Fitbit device often so that insights explorer has enough data to analyze. For example, if you want to ask about trends in your sleep score, wear your device to sleep as often as you can.
For more information about what data insights explorer supports, refer to What Fitbit data can insights explorer use to answer questions?
To get started with insights explorer, you must:
- Have an active Fitbit Premium subscription.
- Use the Fitbit app on an Android phone.
- Be located in the US and use the Fitbit app in English.
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Sign in to the Fitbit app using a Google Account.
- Have an offer to join the Insight Explorer lab on the You tab in the Fitbit App.
There may be additional eligibility criteria that change over time.
Opt-in to the lab to start a conversation with insights explorer:
- From the You tab
- If yes, tap insights explorer and follow the on-screen instructions to turn on the feature. Review and accept the lab-specific consent.
- Type your question or request into the textbox at the bottom of the screen and tap the send button
.
Insights explorer supports some activity, sleep and heart metrics such as: steps, Active Zone Minutes (AZM), sleep score, sleep duration, bed/awake time, deep/light/REM sleep, heart rate variability (HRV), and resting heart rate (RHR).
Support for additional data types may be added in the future.
You may receive an error message if you ask insights explorer about data it’s unable to access.
When you opt-in to insights explorer, you can review and accept the lab-specific consent.
When you ask a question in insights explorer, your data may be analyzed to provide a response to your question. It uses LLMs, a type of generative AI, to analyze your data and create insights for you, including trends, summaries, explanations, and charts. We use this data to provide, improve, and develop products and services as well as machine learning technologies.
To help with quality and to improve our products, human reviewers may read, annotate, and process any queries, data used to respond to your queries and the related responses to your queries generated by this feature. We may retain this data for up to 3 years.
You can turn this feature off from settings. Turning off this feature won't delete any existing data.
Refer to the insights explorer consent in the Fitbit app for more details.
While the Fitbit insights explorer can be a helpful tool for learning more about your activity and health data, there are a few limitations to keep in mind.
Insights explorer uses generative AI, which may sometimes lead to inaccurate or misleading information. You may notice a delay of up to 48 hours before your most recent data is available to analyze. For the best results, be sure to wear your device regularly so insights explorer has enough information to identify trends.
Only certain data types are supported, so you may receive an error message if you ask about data that isn't yet supported. For more information about what data insights explorer supports, refer to What Fitbit data can insights explorer use to answer questions?
Keep in mind that insights explorer is designed to help you analyze your data, but it's not intended to provide medical advice. It should not be used to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease or medical condition.
To turn off insights explorer:
- In the Fitbit app, tap your profile picture.
- Tap Fitbit Settings
- Confirm you want to Turn off insights explorer.
If you want to participate again in the future, follow the instructions in How do I get started with insights explorer?
This lab ended on February 28, 2025.
To provide insights into your habits, Sleep Insights & Tips analyzes your sleep patterns. It offers a sleep journal, tracks how your habits affect sleep, gives personalized suggestions, and recaps your weekly progress.
Available on Fitbit App. Visible to Premium & Non-Premium users.
While Sleep Insights and Tips can be a helpful tool for learning more about your sleep data, there's a few limitations to keep in mind. This feature uses generative AI, which may occasionally lead to inaccurate or misleading summaries. For the best results, be sure to wear your device regularly so Sleep Insights and Tips has enough information to identify trends.
Tip: Sleep Insights and Tips is designed to help you analyze your data, but it's not intended to provide medical advice. It shouldn't be used to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease or medical condition.
To get started, you must:
- Use the Fitbit app on an Android phone.
- Be located in the US and use the Fitbit app in English.
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Sign in to the Fitbit app using a Google Account.
- Review and accept the lab-specific consent.
- Make sure you have a sleep log for the day. If you didn’t sleep with one of the devices listed above, you can manually log your sleep in the Fitbit app.
- Navigate to the Today tab
in the Fitbit app.
- Tap Start Reflection from the promo card or tap the Sleep duration tile
.
- Navigate to the daily sleep screen.
- Tap Start Reflection from the promo card.
- Fill out the survey prompts and tap Continue.
- Journal your sleep experience.
- Tap Submit, Save, or Delete.
Once done, you'll receive your daily summary. You can then provide optional feedback.
Once you complete your daily journal, Sleep Insights and Tips uses LLM, a type of generative AI, to analyze the following to provide you with a daily summary:
- Survey responses
- Journal responses
- Device data
Your daily summary links your sleep, survey, and journal entries to show how they might be connected. The daily summary lets you identify trends that help you build and maintain healthy habits, and break unhealthy habits to support your sleep health. You can find the daily summary on your daily sleep screen and in the Today tab.
At the end of each week, Sleep Insights and Tips uses AI to summarize your sleep based on your survey, journal, and device data.
The summary includes details and data about your sleep trends for the week, and tips to improve your sleep. You may also be asked to opt-in to personalized missions that track specific sleep recommendations depending on the details you provided in your daily journal.
Review your weekly sleep summary:
- From the Today tab
- Tap on week, and swipe back to the week you wish to review.
Tip: You must complete at least 4 daily journals during the week to receive a weekly recap summary. To check when your week starts and ends:
- In the Fitbit app, tap your profile picture.
- Tap Fitbit Settings
Many factors can impact your sleep quality. Here are a few key ones:
- Lifestyle Factors:
- Stress: High stress levels can make it difficult to relax and fall asleep.
- Irregular Sleep Schedule: Going to bed and waking up at different times each day can disrupt your body's natural sleep-wake cycle.
- Lack of Physical Activity: Regular exercise can promote better sleep, but try to avoid exercising too close to bedtime.
- Diet: Eating heavy meals or consuming caffeine or alcohol before bed can interfere with sleep.
- Screen Time: The blue light emitted from electronic devices can suppress melatonin production, making it harder to fall asleep.
- Environmental Factors:
- Noise: A noisy environment can make it difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep.
- Light: Exposure to light, especially blue light, can disrupt your sleep. Make sure your bedroom is dark.
- Temperature: A cool, comfortable bedroom temperature is ideal for sleep.
- Medical Conditions:
- Sleep Disorders: Conditions like insomnia, sleep apnea, and restless legs syndrome can significantly impact sleep quality.
- Chronic Pain: Conditions causing chronic pain can make it difficult to get comfortable and fall asleep.
- Other Health Conditions: Thyroid problems, heart conditions, and respiratory problems can also impact sleep.
- Medications:
- Some medications, including certain antidepressants, decongestants, and steroids, can disrupt sleep.
To delete your sleep journal data:
- In the Fitbit app, tap your profile photo.
- Tap Your data
- Scroll to the Fitbit Labs & Research section and tap Surveys & feedback
To turn off:
- In the Fitbit app, tap your profile picture.
- Tap Fitbit Settings
- Confirm you want to Turn off Sleep Insights & Tips.
Tip: Turning off Sleep Insights & Tips won’t delete your data.
*This feature is not intended to diagnose, prevent, mitigate, treat, or cure any disease, injury or medical condition and should not be relied on for any medical purposes. It is intended to provide information that can help you manage your wellbeing. If you have any concerns about your health, please talk to a healthcare provider.
**By using the insights explorer or the Sleep Insights and Tips features and asking for an AI-generated response or summary, you agree your use is subject to the Google Terms of Service.