Fitbit has announced the end of its Fitbit Connect app on PC. Practical, this software allowed, for the brand’s old watches, to export playlists from a computer to the watch.
Today, to enjoy your music on a bracelet or a connected watch, it is often possible to use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to transfer from your smartphone. But there are still ten years, manufacturers generally required to go through a USB connection with a computer.
On the Fitbit side, for example, the Fitbit Versa, Versa 2 and Ionic watches could enjoy music by connecting the watch to a computer on which the Fitbit Connect software was installed. However, as reported by the site 9to5GoogleFitbit has updated its support page on syncing data between a smartwatch and a computer, with a new message:
On October 13, 2022, we’re removing the option to sync your Fitbit device with the Fitbit Connect app on your computer. Download and use the Fitbit app on your phone to sync your device.
Concretely, this should not change much for users. The Fitbit smartphone app can indeed update connected watches or retrieve data collected by activity trackers. However, it is in the field of listening to music that this new restriction could prove to be restrictive.
Music accessible only in streaming
“On October 13, 2022, we’re removing the option to transfer playlists to your Fitbit watch from your computer. You can continue to play personal music stored on your watch and store music to your watch using the Deezer and Pandora apps“says Fitbit. Concretely, the Fitbit application on the smartphone does not allow music to be stored and playlists to be exported to the brand’s watches, users will have no choice but to go through the two music streaming platforms. to practice rhythm. However, this is already the case with the manufacturer’s most recent watches, whether the Fitbit Sense or the Fitbit Versa 3.
It should also be remembered that Fitbit will soon present new watches and connected bracelets. We thus expect the officialization in the coming months of the Fitbit Sense 2, Fitbit Versa 4 and Fitbit Inspire 3.
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