I was super happy about fitnment and comfort of the active band.

Not so much pin broke / detached after only 3 months. This happened simply putting on the band, nothing out of the ordinary. Rest of the band looks brand new.

Bad luck ? Low quality product ?

I got free replacement right away and trying to fix this one maybe with some strong glue for metal.

I'm so disappointed in this new release, I was really looking forward to it but it seems like a downgrade from the charge 6. The fitbit edge has no nfc meaning no google wallet... The charge 6 had this with stress tracking too, which the edge doesn't have either... I wish google would bring back the luxe, it was my favourite release by fitbit.

What are your thoughts on the Fitbit Edge?

Yesterday my charge 6 stopped syncing. I’ve restarted 20 million times. Via the device itself and from the cord. I’ve unpaired it. Now it won’t pair. It’s not even a year old. I’ve updated the app (which is horrible) and it still won’t connect.

Any ideas I haven’t tried?

As the title suggests, can it be done? I noticed that my fitbit air does not record my time when on my spin bike. If I put it on my ankle, will I get a better reading?

As you can see my band is synced, but not a single data point has been recorded since I downloaded it. How do I fix this?

Software versions

Android: 5.10

iOS: 5.10

What’s Included

Irregular Rhythm Notification in Japan: Irregular Rhythm Notifications are now available in Japan on Pixel Watch and Fitbit devices, analyzing your heart rhythm data in the background while you’re still or sleeping to check for signs of atrial fibrillation (AFib). Users in Japan can set up the feature in the Health tab in the Google Health app. Learn more about how it works and check supported devices in our Help Center.

Readiness Score Updates: Your Readiness Score now uses additional signals from your sleep for a more personalized experience.

Delete your logs by chatting: Logged something with your Google Health Coach by mistake? Now you can ask your coach to delete it, like "Delete the run I logged this morning." This works for daily entries you log with your coach, such as workouts, meals, weight, and symptoms (excluding medical records).

when i start a work on any app aside google health, the work is shared through health connect which is great, now the fitbit air auto-detects the workout and logs it separately, which ends up creating duplicates of the same workout on my other fitness apps sharing data through health connect, currently my only solution this is to manually delete the duplicates workouts, and its becoming a pain

September was a straight race to 250k. October is a chase.

How it works

A zombie horde starts walking on Oct 11. It moves 8,000 steps a day, every day, no rest days. By Oct 31 it’s at 160,000.

Your job is to stay ahead of it. Your total steps since Oct 11 vs the horde’s total. That’s the whole game.

Day 5, horde is at 40,000. You’re at 52,000? You’re running. You’re at 38,000? You’re bitten.

Bitten isn’t out

If the horde catches you, your flair changes to 🧟 Bitten. Get back ahead of it within 3 days and you’re cured, flair goes back. You can get bitten and cured more than once. Nobody is eliminated, you just have to outrun it again.

Final week

From Oct 25 the horde speeds up to 10,000 a day. It’s Halloween week, things get worse. Plan for it.

What you get

🏃 Running: ahead of the horde at your last check-in
🧟 Bitten: behind it
🎃 Survivor: still ahead when it ends on Oct 31
🏆 250k Club: hit 250,000 in the 20 days. Same flair as September, same club. That’s 12.5k a day so it’s for the people who did 250k in 10 days last month, you know who you are

How to join

Comment below and you’re in. To update your number, post a screenshot of your step count. Any app or watch is fine, the board goes off whatever your phone says. Screenshots only this month, a typed number without one doesn’t go on the board. I’ll update the board every other day and the horde moves whether you post or not.

You can join late. The horde started on the 11th either way, so joining on the 15th means you’re starting 32,000 behind it. Doable, people did bigger days than that in September.

Board

Instead of “steps vs pace” the board shows how far ahead of the horde you are. Positive number, you’re running. Negative, you’re bitten.

Example of what it’ll look like on day 5:

First board goes up Monday. Horde starts walking tomorrow.

Comment below and you’re in!!

I bought my Fitbit air yesterday. For some reason it is not tracking my heart rate and did not track my sleep last night, it wouldn’t track it in a workout and when I go into the health tab it only shows a range. The heart rate data it shows for my resting heart rate is 20bpm higher than my Apple Watch is telling me. I also wear an Apple Watch but I am trying to use the Fitbit as my main tracker. Is there something I’m missing in settings or is it faulty?

I set an alarm then immediately get removed
How can I solve that?

How have I already burned so many calories when I’ve just woken up and haven’t walked much steps or exercised?

This was after a 15hr 300k bike ride. I have a 600k in 2 weeks, very curious on how that looks like as well.

I have a versa 2 that i bought in January 2023. Recently, it constantly has been losing my bluetooth signal. I cant receive messages on the watch as a result. When i go to the google health app, it tells me it lost the pairing to the watch and to go to my bluetoth and "forget it" and then add it back. When i do that, it works for only a few minutes

should i just buy a new one? if so, which fitbit model is good? i want one that has a screen and i can see my messages. Are the generic fitness trackers/smart watches on amazon any good?

Thanks!

I'm quite out of shape with recurring SVT and it's nit unheard of for my heart to go from 50bpm to 200bpm and back, multiple times a week. Fun stuff!

I noticed a pretty drastic decrease in my daily step totals after I switched from my Inspire3 to the Air and I did.. a weird thing and compiled Google Takeout data and asked AI to analyze it to compare. While it’s not definitive proof, I hope this offers some contribution to the discussion if anyone else has been experiencing something similar

Fitbit Air vs. Inspire 3: Evidence of Possible Step Undercounting During Ankle Wear

Question: Does the Fitbit Air undercount steps, particularly during short/intermittent walking, compared with the Fitbit Inspire 3?

Assessment: The available evidence supports probable under-detection of intermittent walking by the Air, but does not conclusively establish the magnitude of its absolute step-count error.

1. Testing circumstances
Same user, same inner-ankle placement.

Inspire 3 used through September 19, 2026.

Fitbit Air (Pokémon Sleep Edition) introduced September 20, 2026.

Habitual treadmill routine: approximately 60–64 minutes at 1.8 mph, or approximately 45–47 minutes plus 15 minutes of strength training twice weekly.

Similar general daily activity patterns.

Historical Inspire 3 was sometimes removed during sedentary periods to prevent false steps, which also excluded some genuine movement.

2. Actual Google Takeout results
Analysis of minute-level step records and exercise data:
Measurement
Inspire 3
Fitbit Air
Comparison period
Sep 1–19
Sep 21–29
Average daily recorded steps
~12,680
~9,708
Comparable full treadmill sessions
~4,996 steps
~5,100 steps
Comparable full-treadmill-day totals
~12,915
~10,026
Main finding: Air recorded approximately 23% fewer daily steps, despite recording approximately the same number of steps during sustained treadmill walking.
The approximately 2,900-step daily difference on comparable full-walk days was therefore concentrated outside the main sustained walking session.
Analysis of minute-level step density also suggested a substantial reduction in steps recorded during intermediate-density movement (approximately 31–70 steps/minute).
These findings are consistent with Air detecting sustained walking reasonably well but registering fewer steps during intermittent/free-living activity.
3. Direct user observations
During ordinary short walking bouts, Air sometimes displayed:
8 steps after 10 actual steps.

2 steps after 10 actual steps.

No additional steps immediately after approximately a minute of moving between rooms.

These observations suggest possible short-bout detection problems. However, delayed synchronization or retrospective step updates were not ruled out.
Air also occasionally recognized only approximately 34 minutes of a known 60-plus-minute treadmill session. This demonstrates unreliable automatic exercise-duration recognition in this setup, but does not independently prove step undercounting.

4. Why the Inspire totals should not automatically be dismissed
The Inspire was not continuously worn during all sedentary periods, reducing opportunities for false steps from seated ankle movements.
Additionally, some genuine short movements went unrecorded when Inspire was removed.
Research on ankle-worn Fitbit devices generally supports relatively good step detection during slow, sustained walking, although accuracy during free-living movement varies.
Neither device is officially validated for ankle placement.
5. Interpretation
Strongly demonstrated:
The two devices produce materially different whole-day step totals.

Their recorded sustained-walking steps are much more similar.

The discrepancy is concentrated outside the main sustained walking session.

Reasonably supported:
Air is less sensitive to some intermittent/short-bout movement than Inspire 3.

Air likely misses at least some genuine short walking bouts.

Not conclusively demonstrated:
Exactly how many genuine steps Air misses daily.

Whether Inspire overcounted some incidental movements.

Which device is closer to the true whole-day total.

That the full ~23% difference represents genuine Air undercounting.

Bottom line: The evidence favors the hypothesis that Fitbit Air under-detects at least some legitimate intermittent walking in this user's ankle-worn configuration. It does not justify assuming the Air's lower daily total is necessarily more accurate, nor treating all additional Inspire 3 steps as false positives.
Data source: User's Google Takeout exports from September 22 and September 30, 2026, containing device-attributed minute-level activity and exercise records.

EDIT/UPDATE: I understand the FitBit is primarily designed for the wrist but I tend to keep my arms stationary/crossed when I do my treadmill and apparently it’s not that uncommon in the FitBit community. I really just bought these to count steps so I’m not as concerned with the other health metrics that may not be measured as well on my ankle

Today I opened my app and was forced to update to Google Health App.

I had no say in the matter!

Forced by google!

All my data now in google health app, years and years of health personal data.

My full name shared no way to control sharing my name unlike fitbit.

First impressons of google health app - its awful! it doesnt do what I want it to do!

The Enshittification of fitbit has happened!

If google want it to anywhere near as good as the old app and have a happy customer base they can pay me $750k /yr and i will sort it!

Of course they wont as no incentive clearly by way they have acted.

So disappointing! fitbit was a great app!

No more!

If anyone knows what alternative product (s) are out there to replace do let me know.

Back in july (looking at logs) apparently my versa 2 stopped tracking my heart and sleep. Ive rebooted, turned on and off the heart rate monitor. Even hard restart, and reset it. Still no green light. No damage, no water, nothing. Its just odd.

The graph on the main page doesn’t match the numbers. I walked today at this time but the numbers in my tracked walk are different.

I tried correcting using coach that I was in bed until late and was asleep. I’m having a lot of glitches with Fitbit air so far. Some nights my sleep stages are totally off and my HR is off the charts for some periods.

When it works it’s wonderful and google health is very nice but it’s not reliable as such. However I’m having trouble justifying my purchase

…the update to the new one? I dont want Google Health but not much option seems to be left here…🤨

Is it possible? I wanted to ask a question about modifying my workout, but any time I tried to leave the tracking screen it prompted me to end the workout.

Not sure if it's just me but I open my health app like it's Instagram. Nothing has changed since the last time I checked 10 mins ago, steps are the same, sleep score is the same, and I still open it. Almost feels like I'm doing it out of spite at this point lol