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Google Pixel Watch 2
TL;DR
- Google introduced final yr that Fitbit would begin utilizing Google accounts for sign-ins when Google accounts on Fitbit launch in 2023.
- Fitbit account help is scheduled to finish by 2025, requiring a Google account going ahead.
- Account migration has begun because the Pixel Watch 2 and Fitbit Cost 6 would be the first gadgets to require a Google account to log into Fitbit.
If you happen to haven’t migrated your Fitbit account to a Google account but, you might wish to begin doing it quickly. Google’s newest Fitbit built-in merchandise — Pixel Watch 2 and Fitbit Cost 6 — received’t work with a Fitbit account.
Yesterday, Google unveiled a slew of merchandise throughout its Pixel {hardware} occasion, together with the Pixel Watch 2. A number of days earlier than that, the corporate introduced the long-awaited Fitbit Cost 6. Google has confirmed that each gadgets would require a Google login to signal into Fitbit, being the primary of Google’s merchandise to take action.
Final yr, Fitbit introduced on its assist web page that Google accounts on Fitbit would launch in 2023. The corporate additionally revealed that some makes use of of Fitbit would require a Google account after this launch. Moreover, it stated that Fitbit account help would come to an finish by 2025.
When the Pixel Watch launched final yr, having a Google account wasn’t required for Fitbit. It is because Google account migration had but to begin on the time. Each account varieties are presently nonetheless useable on the one-year-old smartwatch. The identical ought to be true for different older Fitbit-integrated gadgets.
You’ll have the ability to proceed utilizing your Fitbit account till the deadline. Nevertheless it appears to be like such as you’ll have to change quickly if you wish to use Fitbit on future Google gadgets going ahead.
