(WJW) — More than one million Fitbit Ionic smartwatches have been recalled after several reports of the battery overheating, causing burn injuries. “If you own a Fitbit Ionic, please stop using your ...

Announced last month, the Fitbit Luxe is the Google-owned company’s first fitness tracker to have a color display. With the Luxe, Fitbit is also finally adopting USB-C for the charging cable. Every ...

The Fitbit app is free to use, but Fitbit Premium adds additional features to the tracker. You can pay for Fitbit Premium on a rolling monthly basis or per year. Fitbit devices don't need a constant ...

That Fitbit you've been wearing on your wrist to count your steps might soon be providing data directly to your doctor. Fitbit announced Monday it would be partnering with Google to use the Google ...

Google has silently extended the deadline for Fitbit migration to Google accounts to February 2, 2026. Existing Fitbit users must transition to a Google account to retain data. Google will delete all ...

Fitbit trackers and smartwatches are a great way to keep track of your progress to get healthier, but they also picked up a way to warn you of heart problems with AFib detection. Now, in just a couple ...

Last month, MobiHealthNews published a list of 21 clinical trials currently using a Fitbit activity tracker. That wasn't the whole list, though. In fact, our search turned up so many trials with the ...

Fitbit has published data on its effort to develop an algorithm that detects COVID-19 using wearables before symptoms start. Writing in the Nature journal npj digital medicine, researchers showed ...

Google announced a number of health product updates Thursday, including new search functionality for finding provider appointments, ongoing work on using Fitbit to detect atrial fibrillation, and ...

It’s been estimated golfers walk between five to six miles during an 18-hole round. At an average stride of 2.5 feet, this easily gets you to the CDC recommended 10,000 steps a day goal. Hitting this ...

Among the laundry list of features like tracking; two-day-ahead push notifications; and analysis of symptoms like cramps, sleeping, sex and acne, the two most innovative additions are community ...