Google will start transitioning Fitbit owners to its logins from Tuesday, 6 June 2023, allowing users to manage their information from within the Fitbit app or through their Google account.<\/p>\n
Engadget reports<\/a><\/strong> that Fitbit users will also get the opportunity to tweak their data when they move their Fitbit login to their Google account.<\/p>\n The transition has been coming for some time, with Fitbit announcing the change<\/a><\/strong> on its support page in September 2022.<\/p>\n It plans to end support for Fitbit accounts entirely by 2025 and will start requiring a Google login to sign up for a new Fitbit account sometime this year.<\/p>\n “If you’re already a Fitbit customer, you can continue to use your existing Fitbit account with your existing Fitbit devices and services for as long as Fitbit accounts are supported,” it said.<\/p>\n “This will be until at least early 2025. After support of Fitbit accounts ends, a Google account will be required to use Fitbit.”<\/p>\n Following concerns raised over user privacy due to the acquisition, Google promised it wouldn’t use Fitbit user health and wellness data for Google Ads.<\/p>\n Google revealed its plans to acquire Fitbit in November 2019, and the deal faced scrutiny by anti-trust watchdogs.<\/p>\n Organisations like BEUC, representing European consumer associations, argued that wearables would create a new advertising frontier<\/a><\/strong> by continuously tracking user health and location data.<\/p>\n It completed its acquisition of the wearable fitness giant in January 2021.<\/p>\n Fitbit accounts will continue to be supported until early 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":455773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[25235,86879,167,35362,20087,41028],"class_list":["post-494611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-fitbit","tag-fitbit-account","tag-google","tag-google-account","tag-smartwatch","tag-wearable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494737,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494611\/revisions\/494737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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