r/fitbit

HI I am just a 21 m beginner in gym and overall fitness so i want to know if the AI coach will be good help in me guiding me towards my goal and telling me if am doing too or like a good guidance looking at my data and like if i or tell it my goal will it genuinely help me?

I’m mainly looking to do sleep tracking and light exercise tracking. I’m not a fitness freak so I don’t care about the accuracy of that. My sleep quality has been horrible recently so I think maybe getting a wearable can help me correct that.

I saw that I just missed a sale event for Fitbit charge 6, so I don’t know if I’ll buy it at full price. Fitbit Air seems more likely for me but why does Fitbit charge require a subscription but air doesn’t?

thanks for the answers in advance.

I’ve had the Charge 5 for 4 years now and I have loved it! Last week I went swimming with it and now it won’t hold a charge 😭 since it’s past warranty I was offered a 50% off my next purchase of the following watches: 

Fitbit Charge 6, Sense 2, Versa 4, Inspire 3, Luxe, Luxe SE, or Ace 3.

I don’t use my watch for steps, GPS, heart rate, or any of those things. I basically just use it as an actual watch and for notifications. Wondering which watch from the above ones is the most basic! 

Things I really liked about Charge 5: 
Always on display (some watches die super quick with that on, so I want to make sure I get one that can handle it)
Notification mirroring - but it doesn’t let me reply or answer calls (I had a different smart watch before and I would accidentally reply all the time, so I like that I can’t actually reply from the Charge 5)
Tilt to wake
Small
Waterproof (though clearly it wasn’t since that’s what broke it) 

Bonus if the watch has the weather on it, but I know that’s a stretch, so that’s not a requirement.

The inspire 3 has been on my wrist for two years now and I love buying new tech stuff so I've been looking for ANY reason to upgrade from my inspire but there just isn't any lol

- I wear it 24/7 365 even in the shower and it's been bulletproof

- 10 days battery life makes me forget this thing needs charging sometimes and for short vacations I don't even bring the charger

- Same sensor as the new Fitbit air

- Still using the same original rubber wristband for 2 years it's showing no signs of breaking and still have the additional band in the box if this band ever dies

- Idk what the screen is made from but it literally has 0 scratches after 2 years

- Has alarm, timer, stopwatch which is all the features I need

The only issue I've encountered has been software glitches that required rebooting the watch or resetting the clock face. (Happened maybe 4-5 times total within the past 2 years so no biggie)

Tldr: inspire 3 is still the GOAT in 2026. I feel like they haven't released an Inspire 4 because Inspire 3 is so good it's hard to improve on it more.

I recently received my Fitbit Air and I am enjoying the lightness and ease of wearing it with my OnePlus Watch 3 or a mechanical watch.

I noticed in the Google Health app that there is an option to log 'mindfulness'. The only way to log (as I can see it now) is to do one of the baked in exercises.

For the last few weeks I am using the EliteHRV combined with my Polar chest strap to log HRV and do some breathwork to improve my overall HRV. As EliteHRV does not log data to Health Connect, the sessions do not get logged in Google Health. Is there a way to log these sessions under 'mindfulness' or another tile of the app?

Completely new to Fitbit/Google Health. No idea if I am overlooking something.

Hi folks, I've had my Fitbit air since launch and straight away set a daily silent alarm to wake me up. Worked fine for a week, then I wanted to set a second alarm to wake me up early on the weekend. Alarm appeared to be set, but didn't go off. I woke up just before 7am and led there waiting for it to go off, but it didn't.

I went into the app and the alarm was still showing at the right time and day... Despite not having gone off.

I also noticed that it had deleted my weekday morning alarm for some reason. (I 100% didn't delete it replace it.)

So I tried to re-set my daily alarm and now for the last few months I can't set any alarms whatsoever.

I contacted Google support who suggested I remove the device from my Health app, then re-add it. Didn't work.

I restarted my phone, restarted the Fitbit Air and cleared the cache in the Health app and closed the app several times. Still doesn't work.

It always comes up with the same error: "Unable to save your alarm. Make sure that your tracker is close to your phone." (My Fitbit Air is on my wrist and my phone is in my hand, so there's maybe 4 - 6 inches between them, lol.)

Anyone else had this and found how to fix it?

The Health app is up to date and I've restarted everything multiple times and cleared the cache multiple times, so I don't know what more I can do.

Also, I currently have no alarms set, so it's not because I have too many alarms, either. Even from day one it never let me set more than one alarm, whenever I clicked to add a new alarm it would delete my existing alarm. So multiple alarms have never been possible.

Thanks in advance.

It's stuck on the blue logo screen. I'm using the charge 5 model and there are no buttons to switch it off, please help

Google eliminated the Fitbit app and, in doing so, Google appears to have eliminated a feature that some of its users (me, for one) very much wanted: auto-detect and record bike rides. No clue why. No clue if Google just fucked up or, for some reason, decided not to offer this benefit. But I realized it is 100% a software issue, not hardware (obvs) and maybe there was a replacement in the Play Store. There is! Unfortunately, the info on the Play Store is in French (at least when I got the app) but the app is in English when downloaded. Also unfortunate, it is a little unclear at the start what permissions settings you need but you should be able to work that out pretty easily. Ride on!

I have had my FitBit Inspire 3 for 3+ years now and mostly have had minimal issues, some bumps in the road here and there with syncing, but overall okay. Ever since the switch to Google health it has been hell on earth trying to sync this device to my app. My fitbit says today I've walked 16,000 steps, but my app says only 2,000, and for yesterday it says almost none at all despite being on my feet all day. It hasn't synced up properly in days, likely weeks, and I can't figure out what the issue is. I've restarted both devices, updated my ios, updated / restarted my fitbit, synced my google account to the new app, deleted the app, redownloaded, cleared the cache, updated all permission settings, removed from bluetooth, re-added, changed wifi, etc etc etc. Nothing is working. I am just confused and frustrated, I've been reading forums for hours now trying to figure out what to do but nothing is working. Is this an obvious fix that I am just not realizing? Is my app/device broken? Is anyone else experiencing this too? I am at a loss here.

I have a premium account but the ai coach is not supported jn my country
Any ways to bypass it?

I will be traveling for a few weeks and won't be bringing my Fitbit air with me.

Is there a way to power it off? Or what should I do about storing it for 3 weeks so that it doesn't deplete the zero and impact the lifespan of the battery?

I can get a good deal on a garmin FR165 and price is close to a fitbit air. I don’t run, I just do occasional basketball, weightlifting and treadmill. And I don’t know which to get. Garmin I believe has more comprehensive health metrics. But fitbit air has better sleep metrics and is more comfortable (minimalist design). Also unsure on durability, heard fitbits last only between 1-3 years. Hope anyone could chime in on which to choose! Thanks ya’ll!

Hi folks, two questions:

1. Is there any difference between whoop recovery and fitbit air readiness?

2. Every review says Whoop is "for serious athletes" and Fitbit Air is "for casual people.", but no one explains what that actually means.

If the core metric is just Recovery vs Readiness, where's the real gap? Is it the score itself, or the stuff around it? What would an athlete actually miss on the Fitbit?

I used whoop for one year and was happy overall, but can't justify subscription cost anymore.