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Enlarge / The Fitbit Ionic presently lets you download euphony to the device.
Valentina Palladino
Fitbit owners who similar to sync their fittingness tracker with a machine to alteration offline listening of downloaded euphony without a monthly interest volition soon request to alteration their approach.
As spotted by 9to5Google connected Saturday, Fitbit volition nary longer let users to sync their devices implicit a machine starting successful October.
"On October 13, 2022, we're removing the enactment to sync your Fitbit instrumentality with the Fitbit Connect app connected your computer," a Fitbit support page reads. "Download and usage the Fitbit app connected your telephone to sync your device."
The Fitbit Connect desktop bundle lets you transportation euphony from your machine to the wearable if you person a supporting watch. Newer devices, similar the Fitbit Sense and Versa 3, cannot store downloaded music.
After October, owners of older Fitbits, similar the Fitbit Versa and Versa 2, volition besides person to trust connected subscriptions to not-so-popular services for offline music. "After the Fitbit Connect app connected your machine is deactivated, you tin proceed to transportation euphony to your ticker done the Deezer app. Customers successful the United States tin besides usage the Pandora app," Fitbit's support page says.
Deezer and Pandora some necessitate monthly subscriptions for euphony downloading and offline listening, with fees starting astatine $10 per period aft immoderate eligible proceedings periods.
Remember, Fitbits inactive don't fto you adhd euphony you've downloaded done streaming services, though you tin power euphony connected your smartphone with a Fitbit.
The caller regulation shouldn't past forever. When Google acquired Fitbit successful 2021, the fittingness tracker institution confirmed that Fitbits moving Google's Wear OS are connected the way. Wear OS has offline enactment for subscribers to Spotify Premium and YouTube Music.
The decease of the Fitbit Connect desktop app volition mean that Fitbit wearers who person managed to debar the brand's mobile app person less options. An progressively subscription-focused marketplace has been coming for a agelong clip now. Fitbit Connect is inactive downloadable connected Windows 10 and Mac OS X, but the institution says the Fitbit app for iPhone and Android provides the "best experience."
For now, you tin inactive download and perceive to euphony from your Fitbit; you conscionable won't beryllium capable to adhd much songs aft October.
