Fitbit users will be forced to migrate to Google accounts by 2025
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A Google account will be required for Fitbit by 2025, following the search giants acquisition of the health tech brand.and its rebranding of the health tech company as ‘Fitbit by Google,’ the search giant is moving to tightly integrate its services with Fitbit’s own. A Google account will be required for “some uses” of Fitbit devices and features from 2023, with plans to have all existing Fitbit accounts migrated to Google accounts by 2025.
You can currently use ‘continue with Google’ to access desktop Fitbit accounts, however, this differs from the planned changes for account migrations.When we asked how the upcoming change to account access would impact these commitments, a Fitbit spokesperson said “Google accounts on Fitbit will remain in full compliance with our commitments to global regulators.
Google is pushing this as a positive move for Fitbit users. The support page says benefits for the change include having “a single login for Fitbit and other Google services, industry-leading account security, centralized privacy controls for Fitbit user data, and more features from Google on Fitbit.” Given Google’s previous history with forced account migrations and customer privacy, however, (
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