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Fitbit not getting texts or notifications? Let's fix it!

Love your Fitbit but not receiving any text messages, notifications, or calls from your phone to your Fitbit? Tried everything but left wondering how you can get your Fitbit to show your text messages and other notifications and alerts.

If you aren’t receiving notifications on your Fitbit and don’t know why or how to fix it, this article is for you!

Various Fitbit owners complain that notifications have stopped working, regardless of the type of device, impacting both iPhones and Android devices.

Today, we look at several different troubleshooting methods before calling it quits.

Those who recently updated the Fitbit app, reboot your mobile device and try setting up notifications again. And Android users, make sure you set the Fitbit app’s battery access to unrestricted (not optimized or restricted), so the app runs continually in the background.

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Contents

1 How to get notifications from your phone to your Fitbit
2 Quick checklist
3 Check your Fitbit’s notification settings
4 Are you too far away?
5 Do you sync your Fitbit with more than one mobile device?
6 Other methods that help when notifications aren’t showing up on your Fitbit
7 Delete the Fitbit app and reinstall
8 Summary

How to get notifications from your phone to your Fitbit

While it’s usually a simple fix, there are many reasons why your notifications aren’t showing up!

So let’s run through the most common things to cause Fitbit notification issues.

Syncing often prevents or delays notifications. And Fitbit only shows notifications when the device is unlocked.

Are your text notifications immediately disappearing or not staying on your Fitbit’s screen very long?

Notifications automatically disappear from your Fitbit once you review messages on your paired phone. This is intended behavior and cannot be changed.

Quick checklist

Download and install the newest version of the Fitbit app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
Make sure your phone is within 30 feet of your Fitbit.
Check that you turned on Bluetooth on your phone and that your phone has notifications on.
Verify that you turned on notifications in your phone settings and within the Fitbit app.
Turn off Do Not Disturb or Focus modes and Sleep or Bedtime Modes (if available) on your phone and Fitbit. You won’t receive notifications when you use the Do Not Disturb settings on your phone.
1. Hold the side button or buttons for Fitbit band models like Ace, Charge, and Inspire series, and go to Quick Settings.
2. On Fitbit smartwatches like the Sense, Versa, or Ionic, and the Luxe tracker, swipe to see your Quick Settings options.
3. For iPhones using iOS 15+, look in your Focus Settings to find do not disturb, sleep, and similar options.
If you’re not receiving notifications during exercise only, turn off Focus mode in Settings > Quiet modes > Focus mode.
Make sure you allow the Fitbit app to run in the background on your phone.
Disable any battery-saving feature on your paired phone, such as Low Power mode for Apple devices or Battery Saver on Android. Also, ensure battery optimization is set to not optimized for the Fitbit app.

Android users, check these settings.

Ensure the Fitbit app runs in the background by going to Apps & Notifications > Fitbit app and turning off Background restrictions or Background limits.
Check that the Fitbit app is installed on your phone’s internal storage, not on an external SD card or other storage. The Fitbit app does not consistently work when installed on an SD card.
Turn off battery optimization and limitations.
1. Go to Apps > Fitbit app > Advanced > Battery > Battery optimization.
2. Change the view to All apps.
3. Search for the Fitbit app and choose Don’t optimize (or not optimized.)
Also, check: Settings > Apps & notifications > Notifications > Notifications on lock screen and set it to Show conversations.

Apple iPhone users, check these settings.

There are a lot of notification settings to check on Apple devices. So it’s easy to miss one or two. So let’s check those out.

Go to Settings > Notifications > Messages and turn on Allow Notifications.
Then, checkmark Notification Center, Lock Screen, and Banners.
Change the Shows Previews setting to Always or When Unlocked.
Use Banner Style > Persistent (default is temporary.)
Repeat for the Fitbit app, the Phone app, the Calendar app, and any other app you want to see notifications for on your Fitbit.
Finally, confirm that Share System Notifications are on via your phone’s Bluetooth settings > Your Fitbit > System Notifications.

Check your Fitbit’s notification settings

The first issue is that you did not set up the Fitbit app to send notifications to your Fitbit device. To check this, you can do so in two different ways: via the Fitbit app or on your Fitbit device.

Before jumping into your phone, make sure that you turn on your Fitbit device’s Notification setting.

Depending on your model, you may have a distinct notification setting (like on the Inspire series trackers), Do Not Disturb (DND), and Sleep mode settings.

Look at notification settings on your Fitbit device:

Blaze — Hold the top right button for 3 seconds. Or, on your clock face, swipe up, and make sure notifications are turned on.
Surge — Swipe the touchscreen until you get to the Settings menu, then find Notifications.
Ace 2, Charge 2, and Inspire & Inspire HR — Press and hold the button on your home screen (the clock screen) to reach the quick settings screen. Scroll down and look for notifications. If the icon appears dim with a line through it, tap it once to turn notifications on.
Ace 3 and Inspire 2 — Press and hold the side buttons. Verify that DND and Sleep
mode settings are off.
Luxe and Inspire 3 — Swipe down from your Luxe’s clock face to access its quick setting. Verify that DND mode and Sleep mode settings are off.
Charge 3 — On the clock screen, press and hold the button. For Fitbit Pay-enabled trackers, swipe left to access the quick settings screen.
Charge 4 — Press and hold the button from the clock screen, and swipe left to the quick settings screen. Then, tap DND and verify do not disturb and sleep mode settings are not on.
Charge 5 — On your clockface, swipe down from the top of the screen to access quick settings. Make sure DND mode and Sleep mode are off.
Ionic, Sense Series, & Versa Series — Access your Fitbit’s Quick Settings menu (swipe down or swipe right and check that sleep (crescent moon icon) and DND (minus symbol) are off.

For the Fitbit Sense series, Charge 5, and Versa 3/4, there’s an additional mode called Focus mode (Exercise Focus on the Charge 5) that silences notifications and calls during workouts with the Exercise app.

To check if you enabled this, go to Settings > Quiet modes > Focus mode or Exercise Focus and toggle it off.

Sleep mode vs. Do Not Disturb on your Fitbit

It’s easy to confuse the differences between DND and sleep modes.

While both modes mute notifications, sleep mode reduces your screen’s brightness and prevents the display from turning on when you move.

When you turn on Sleep mode, the following occurs on your watch:

Notifications, goal celebrations, and reminders to move are muted.
The screen’s brightness is set to dim.
The Always-On Display clock face is turned off.
The screen stays dark when you turn your wrist.
The sleep mode icon illuminates in the quick settings.
You can schedule sleep mode to turn on and off automatically. If you don’t set a schedule, you must disable it manually.
1. Set a sleep mode schedule in the Settings app.

When you turn on DND, the following occurs on your watch:

Notifications, goal celebrations, and reminders to move are muted.
The do not disturb icon illuminates in the quick settings.
DND does not automatically turn off. You must manually disable it.

Notifications only appear on your Fitbit device for a few seconds

If you do not interact with those notifications, they automatically disappear from your device’s screen. Swipe down from the top of your Fitbit’s screen to see unread notifications.

The other method for checking notifications involves the Fitbit app on your phone, tablet, etc. To check the notification settings, you’ll need to follow these steps:

Look at notification settings using your Fitbit app:

Open the Fitbit app.
Tap your account picture or icon in the top left-hand corner.
Select your Fitbit device.
Tap Notifications, then tap App Notifications (if applicable).
Scroll and find the app in question.
For iPhone, toggle On any app you want to show notifications on your Fitbit. For Android, tap the item, then turn it on.

Are you too far away?

Occasionally, everything may work on your Fitbit, and suddenly, it stops.

The first culprit is how far away you are from your smartphone.

Say you’re cleaning around the house and leaving your phone in one room.

Well, your notifications might stop after a certain distance threshold has been met.

In the case of Fitbit, your smartphone must be within 30 feet to transmit correctly. If not, your Fitbit will become just a digital watch until you get back within range.

The nice thing is that you won’t have to worry about re-pairing the Fitbit, as your devices should communicate.

Once you’re back in range, everything should go back to normal.

Do you sync your Fitbit with more than one mobile device?

When we sync our devices with more than one mobile device (especially two phones), our notifications often disappear or go haywire.

That’s because your Fitbit can only receive notifications from one phone–when you allow your Fitbit to view (and send) texts, you create a bond between that phone and your Fitbit.

Your Fitbit can only bond with one phone at a time.

If you sync your Fitbit with more than one phone, make sure you turn notifications on for only one phone and turn them off on the other–that way, they won’t interfere.

Frankly, we have trouble with notifications not showing up even when syncing with our iPhone and iPad.

So it’s a good practice to use only one mobile device with your Fitbit consistently.

Other methods that help when notifications aren’t showing up on your Fitbit

The methods above are likely some of the easiest ways to get your Fitbit back in working order. However, there are still some others that you can try before giving up.

Toggle off Text Messages and toggle on message apps

Some users discovered that if they turned off the Text Message option in the Fitbit app Notifications settings and toggled on the individual messaging apps they used, they received all their text messages.

Open the Fitbit app, choose your account, and select your Fitbit device.
Scroll down and tap Notifications.
Toggle off Text Messages.
Scroll down and tap App Notifications.
Toggle on all the messaging apps you use.

Force Quit

This next option is straightforward, as Fitbit suggests you Force Quit the Fitbit app. This can be done in various ways, depending on your device.

For an iPhone, swipe up on the home screen to the app switcher. Find the Fitbit app, then swipe it off the top of your screen.
- For older models with a home button, double press the home button and then swipe the Fitbit app off the top of your screen.
On an Android device, you access the multitasking menu. From there, you can swipe away from the app and re-open it to check if everything is working.

Refresh

Another way to get your Fitbit working again is to refresh the notification settings. To do this, you’ll need to follow these steps:

Open the Fitbit app.
Tap your device icon in the top left-hand corner.
Select Notifications.
Turn off all notifications, including app notifications.
Restart your phone.
Open the Fitbit app and toggle notifications on.

This gives your device a “fresh” start without setting everything up again. Performing this task has been known to knock out any cobwebs.

Restart your Fitbit

There’s an old saying, “did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in?” Although technology is much more advanced than 20 years ago, this adage still applies from time to time.

Performing a restart on your Fitbit varies, depending on your device.

For example, these are the steps to restart your Sense series, Versa series, Blaze, or Ionic:

Press and hold the button (Sense series and Versa 3/4,) the back button (Versa 2 and Versa Lite), or the back and bottom buttons (Versa, Blaze, and Ionic) for around 10 seconds.
When you see the Fitbit logo, let go of the buttons.

This forces your Fitbit to restart, returning you to the “home page” once completed. But your mileage may vary if you own a different tracker.

See this article for other Fitbit models or a step-by-step: Need to restart or reset your Fitbit device? Learn the steps.

Start your Fitbit’s Bluetooth connection from scratch

If all else fails, you must go through and set up notifications again from scratch. Of course, this method is only suggested if your Fitbit works in every other capacity.

However, here are the steps you need to take to set up notifications from scratch:

Open the Settings app on your device.
Select Bluetooth.
Find your Fitbit and tap on it.
Find the option to Forget the Device.

This halts communications between your smartphone and smartwatch. From there, you need to go back into the Fitbit app and set up the device as if you had just opened it.

Delete the Fitbit app and reinstall

If you tried all the steps above and still cannot get your notifications to show up on your Fitbit, uninstall and reinstall the Fitbit app.

For iPhone: go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage > Fitbit app > Delete app.
For Android: go to Settings > Apps & Notifications > Show all apps > Fitbit > Uninstall.

To reinstall, visit the Apple App Store or Google Play Store and download and install the Fitbit app. You’ll need to set your Fitbit device up again.

Since Fitbit saves your account information on its servers, deleting and reinstalling the app does not result in data loss.

Summary

These are just some methods you can use if you run into issues with notifications on your Fitbit. If one of these worked for you, let us know in the comments below!

If you found a different method than the ones listed above, let us know to add it to the list! Oh, and be sure to mention which device you are using to help others figure out the problem.

Fitbit Blaze reviewed: A totally unnecessary tracker with a few cool features

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It's not a bad device, I just don't know why it exists.

Valentina Palladino - Mar 20, 2016 12:30 pm UTC

Video shot/edited by Jennifer Hahn.

When Fitbit announced the Blaze "smart fitness watch," it did not make the best first impression. Many thought the Blaze was a peculiar answer to its competition, namely the Apple Watch, and the company's stock immediately fell more than 13 percent.

However, the Fitbit Blaze is not a smartwatch in the same way as the Apple Watch or the Android Wear. Fitbit took what it does best—connected fitness—and put it in a device designed to appeal to the ever growing number of people interested in smartwatches. But if the idea of fun applications and sending texts from your wrist intrigues you, the $199 Blaze is not what you want. Instead, the Blaze creates and fills a weird middle-ground space. This is a wearable for the die-hard Fitbit crowd, particularly those on the more active side of the spectrum. The Fitbit Blaze is for those who want to wear something that does just slightly more than an average step counter.

Design: Imitation watch

When I was at a birthday party, someone saw my wrist and asked, "Did you get an Apple Watch too?" Even she couldn't tell the difference between the Apple Watch strapped to her wrist and the Blaze on mine. (She lost interest when I set her straight.) Anything that looks like an Apple Watch demands attention because it looks like an Apple product. Whether or not that's what Fitbit intended with its uninspired design for the Blaze, it has definitely succeeded in making A Thing You Confuse for An Apple Watch.

That being said, the Blaze does fit in with the rest of the Fitbit fitness tracker family. Its octagonal, silver case holds a black module with a screen. On that case are three buttons: one back button on the left and two multipurpose buttons on the right that let you control the screen. Like most Fitbit wristbands, the Blaze has a ribbed elastomer strap with a watch-style clasp. Unlike the $250 Surge, you can customize your Blaze by removing the small pins that lock the strap into the case. Classic elastomer straps are $29 each, and Fitbit offers a metal-link band for $129 and a couple different colored leather bands for $99 each.

Many of Fitbit's trackers come in different colors, but thanks to those metal and leather accessories, the Blaze is being pushed as one of the company's more fashionable fitness devices. Along with the slim new Alta tracker, the Blaze is Fitbit's way of telling us that it can do style without designers like Tory Burch.

I'm not sure the effort has been a success. While the Blaze is surprisingly lightweight, it's too bulky in all the wrong ways. If it had been designed as a circle, like a traditional watch, I might feel differently. However, the Blaze's eight-sided design draws too much attention to itself, and the real shame is that the brains of the device are smaller. The module with the Blaze's color LCD display sits in the middle of the case, leaving open space between it and the frame on its top and bottom.

This design is what lets you move the module in between frames and bands, and unfortunately it also allows you to charge the device. The Blaze comes with a proprietary charging cable with a square pocket on one end into which you slip the module. This means you have to remove the module completely from the frame to charge it, which is super annoying. Thankfully, a full charge will last about five to seven days so you won't have to do this every night. I cringed every time I had to force the Blaze module back into the frame.

The $199 Blaze is Fitbit's first device with a full-color LCD touchscreen.

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The black, square module pops out of the silver frame.

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The single left button is for waking the display.

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Both right side buttons are for selecting options on the screen and quick-accessing the music control feature.

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On the underside is a continuous optical heart rate monitor.

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The Blaze comes with an elastomer band, and you can buy leather replacements for $99 each.

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It's an everyday tracker, monitoring steps, calories, distance, active time, floors climbed, and sleep.

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You can monitor full workouts with the Blaze as well.

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FitStar on-screen workouts guide you through workout routines.

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You can preview how many exercises are in each routine.

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FitStar counts down each move and rest time in between.

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It also shows you how to do each exercise if you're unfamiliar with them.

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You can set silent alarms to vibrate throughout the day, multiple days a week.

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You can quickly turn on or off notifications on the Blaze, as well as control music from your smartphone.

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You can read full texts on the screen, but you cannot reply.

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The module pops out for charging and when you want to change the frame to accompany a different band.

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The charging method is annoying, since you must remove the module to do so.

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Features: What Fitbit does best with a dash of smartwatch

Let's talk about the Blaze's handful of smartwatch-esque features before diving into its fitness abilities. Unlike the Apple Watch and Android Wear, which send all of your smartphone alerts to your wrist, the Blaze only deals with call, text, and calendar alerts. There is no compatibility with third-party chat apps like Whatsapp, Kik, and GroupMe. In general, I prefer a less-is-more approach to smartwatch notifications. But while I was happy that my wrist buzzed every time I got a text or iMessage from my parents, I wish the Blaze was equipped to receive my boyfriend's Whatsapp messages.

Fitbit's "silent" notifications are definitely quiet, and they're easy to disable with a quick tap on the touchscreen. Same goes for alarms—you can set silent alarms to go off for any occasion during the day and dismiss them the same way. The only other "smartwatch" feature is music control, which is something most high-end fitness watches already have anyway. By either swiping down from the top of the screen or long-pressing the top right button, you can access a music player that lets you play, pause, skip, and adjust the volume of the music playing from your smartphone.

The bread and butter of the Blaze is fitness. It's an everyday tracker, so it monitors steps, calories, distance, floors climbed, active minutes, and sleep. It has a continuous optical heart rate monitor embedded into the underside as well, which measures your pulse whenever the band is on. You can tap the clock view on the display to see a live reading of your heart rate whenever you want, and it's also always on during workouts. The Blaze's HRM was usually within 5 bpm of what I calculated with my fingers on a pressure point. I also like that the Blaze categorizes your heart rates into "fat burn," "cardio," and "peak" zones so you can push yourself harder depending on what you want from your workout.

The main difference between the $200 Blaze and the $250 Surge is that the Surge has built-in GPS to monitor your workout route, while the Blaze must use your phone's GPS. Onboard GPS has become the "I'm not messing around" feature for fitness trackers. Since it requires a stand-alone chip, onboard GPS also makes those devices bigger, more power-hungry, and usually more expensive than those with connected GPS only.

Like most of Fitbit's other devices, you can track and log all kinds of exercises, including running, walking, treadmill and elliptical sessions, weight lifting, or general workout moves. The Blaze also has the ability to auto-recognize and record a number of those exercises, and you can customize its threshold for doing so. For example, I work out on ellipticals and treadmills often, so I can set the Blaze to auto-record both of those workouts when I've been doing them for 10 minutes or more.

The first time I tried this, I was confused because I assumed the device would buzz or do something to let me know it had started tracking my elliptical session after I hit the 10-minute mark. However, the Blaze stays silent—when you open the Fitbit app and sync the device next, you'll see your automatically recorded session under the workouts tab. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the auto-recognition feature worked really well. The Blaze accurately recorded the duration of my workouts, and it closely matched the distance and calorie burn that the gym machines estimated. Ironically, it was slightly better at matching calorie expenditure than distance, often being about a half mile off my actual distance.

If you're ever in a workout rut or just want to switch things up, you'll likely lean on the few on-screen workouts provided by FitStar. These are similar to the Microsoft Band's guided workouts, although there aren't nearly as many with the Blaze. Currently the device has a warm up routine, the 7 Minute Workout, and a routine called 10 Minute Abs. That's it. According to a Fitbit forum post, there's no news on when we could see more FitStart on-screen workouts added to the Blaze, which is disheartening because I really enjoyed them. The Blaze makes use of its larger LCD display and shows a small human figure that models each exercise in the routine. So even if you don't know all of the exercises in a routine, you can still do it and follow along by glancing at your wrist.

Fitbit Blaze - LAP

Fitbit Blaze WHAT IS IT?

Fitbit Blaze - comfort and convenience in your hands. Watches for active people. This watch has a working heart rate monitor, a fitness tracker that recognizes various activities up to yoga, and a sleep monitor with a smart alarm function.

Simplified heart rate measurement for quickly checking exercise intensity during workouts with PurePulse™ continuous monitoring, wrist-based heart rate monitoring (no uncomfortable chest strap)

Unlike many other trackers that measure heart rate at a certain interval, Blaze do it all the time. This function allows the gadget to calculate the current heart rate, as well as the average and highest rate. Another important feature of the device is a capacious battery that allows it to work up to 5 days without recharging.

The device can automatically recognize exercise from various categories (running, cycling, tennis, walking, and more). Workouts are marked automatically without the need for "start" or "stop" commands. nine0005

All this data is carefully collected, organized and presented in a convenient way thanks to proprietary software. The operating system used is Fitbit's own development, compatible only with the company's own applications. In addition, the company synced the gadget with the FitStar app, a trainer app that offers step-by-step workouts. And most importantly, all functions are available without using a smartphone.

Connecting Blaze to a smartphone gives it the functionality of a smartwatch. The device notifies you of incoming calls, SMS, upcoming events, allows you to control music playback and show your location using the smartphone's GPS module. nine0005

DESIGN

The Fitbit Blaze is more than just a fitness tracker. You can safely wear it outside the gym and not rush to take it off after a morning run. The device is made in a rather bulky, at first glance, octagonal case with wide edges. The case itself is made of stainless steel, while the replacement strap is made of hypoallergenic elastomer. Fitbit Blaze is not recommended to take in the shower, and even more so in the pool.

HOW DOES IT WORK? nine0003

Features include heart rate monitoring, daily activity tracking, sleep analysis, as well as displaying calls, messages, various notifications, and controlling the connected smartphone's music player.

MultiSport lets you select your activity type, such as running or cycling, for more relevant information, while SmartTrack automatically recognizes the type of exercise you are doing. nine0005

Use the dedicated feature to track your runs, cardio, cross training, cycling and more. Easily and automatically record other workouts on your dashboard with SmartTrack

Turn on your connected GPS to match routes and view your achievement statistics. For example: pace and duration on display (when your phone is nearby)

Track steps, distance, calories burned, floors raised and active minutes. Stay connected with call, text and calendar reminders and notifications from your favorite apps like Gmail, Facebook, etc. (when your phone is nearby). Start your FitStar workout on your wrist and get step-by-step instructions and graphics to ensure you move properly

The Fitbit Blaze fitness watch is "sweat, rain and splash resistant", but it is strictly forbidden to swim with it.

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Got yourself a new Fitbit?

Whether you've gone to Fitbit Ionic, Fitbit Versa, Fitbit Alta HR, or any other setup process, this guide applies to all of them, and also covers your Fitbit with Android and iOS devices. nine0005

So read on below for a complete guide to setting up your wear, including downloading the Fitbit app, pairing it with your phone and setting goals, and getting ready to receive.

Powering Up

After you've unpacked your Fitbit, you'll want to turn it on and make sure it has a battery.

Download the Fitbit App

Once you have turned on your Fitbit it is actually your phone that you want to turn on first as you need to download the Fitbit app which is available for both iOS and Android so go to your app store and download

It's even available for Windows 10, and if you don't have a compatible phone or tablet or Windows 10 device, you can download Fitbit Connect, which works with Windows 8.1 and Mac.

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Download the app and ask to sign in or create an account.

Enter your email address and the password you want to use for your Fitbit account, then the next screen will ask you to fill in your name, date of birth, height, weight and gender. nine0005

Once you have entered your details, click "create an account" and accept the terms.

Note however that if your Fitbit has power, the app should find it even if you don't plug it in first, just make sure it's near your phone and you've turned on Bluetooth.

Your Fitbit will then display a 4-digit number on the screen (if you have a Fitbit) and you will be prompted to enter it into the app.

If your Fitbit does not have a screen, then you will be asked to tap on it. nine0005

Please note, if you already have an account, then the process is similar, but first you need to log in, then go to your account screen (the icon in the top right corner of the Fitbit app toolbar), then click "set up

Also note that if you have a Fitbit Ionic or Fitbit Versa the setup process is slightly different as once paired with your phone you will be prompted to connect your Fitbit to your Wi-Fi network and that wearer will take advantage of this option

Set multiple goals

After pairing, you will be prompted to enter the name you want your Fitbit to call you, then tap the next few screens which will give you a quick overview of how to use your Fitbit.

Select the wrist you'll wear your tracker on and other device-specific settings, and you're almost ready to go.

Before you begin, the Fitbit app will additionally ask you to select a goal, whether it's weight management, improved sleep, or a range of other parameters. nine0005

He will then move on to why you have this goal and come up with suggested goals to help you achieve it.

And don't worry if you're not sure about any of these goals - you can change them at any time from the app.

Which settings do you want to change immediately?

Once you've looked at the Fitbit app's home screen (which it refers to as a panel), there are some settings you might want to tweak, or at least be aware of. nine0005

First, to make his tracking more accurate, you may want to enter your stride length (by measuring it first).

To do this, press the top right button on the control panel, then select Advanced Settings, then Stride Length.

On the Advanced Options screen, you can also do things like change the units it uses and select the day you want the week to start for tracking purposes.