Shock Feature Lands For Fitbit Sense 2 And Versa 4 Owners - Forbes

The aboriginal for the Fitbit Sense 2 and Versa 4 conscionable got a batch brighter, arsenic a third-party app has arrived for these watches, arsenic spotted by 9to5Google.

While the Sense 2 and Versa 4 are solid, approachable astute fittingness trackers, they were criticised astatine motorboat for lacking a fewer features of their predecessors, including third-party app support.

Reports of Fitbit third-party apps being gone for bully whitethorn beryllium overstated, though, due to the fact that 1 has conscionable appeared successful the Fitbit app.

It is MED ID 5.0, which has Jason Olsen listed arsenic its developer. This comparatively elemental app is simply a mode to store important aesculapian accusation similar “medications, allergies/reactions, enactment carnal accusation and further information,” according to the app’s description.

I’ve conscionable checked this and, definite enough, it is showing arsenic an installable enactment for my Fitbit Versa 4.

However, determination are immoderate eyebrow-raising elements here. MED ID 5.0 is listed arsenic having been updated connected 31 December 2020. If third-party app enactment is coming back, it seems unusual to people it with an app made by a solo developer that was past updated soon aft the Versa 3 launched.

Still, this is simply a hopeful sign, and 1 that means the features gaps of the Sense 2 and Versa 4 whitethorn beryllium filled 1 day. Music enactment is the astir glaring of these. Older Fitbit flagships offered Spotify, Pandora and Deezer support. The alternatively past Versa 2 fto you transportation your ain euphony files manually. But the latest batch person nary euphony features.

These watches besides launched with respective cardinal features pending, including Google Maps Navigation introductions and Google Wallet. This is contempt a astir 2-year spread since the Versa 3 and Sense, wherever lone a twelvemonth elapsed betwixt the Versa 2 and Versa 3.

This slowed improvement whitethorn beryllium down to the aftershocks of Google’s acquisition of Fitbit, which was announced successful precocious 2019 but was not finalized until January 2021.

That large alteration was not wholly bully quality for the Sense and Versa lines, which present person to find a comfy spot to beryllium alongside Google’s ain Pixel Watch smartwatch. Fitbit arguably did not propulsion this disconnected with the Sense 2 and Versa 4.

The cooler reception of this brace has had immoderate benefits for buyers, though. Both watches were dramatically discounted successful during Black Friday sales, with $80 disconnected some models, conscionable a mates of months aft their launch.

Fitbit has besides precocious released a brace of Versa/Sense ticker faces solely for Premium subscribers. These are the Streaks and Trials, fitness-focused views. One shows your measurement and number and the days of the existent week you’ve reached your goal. The different shows the advancement of each your regular goals, specified arsenic sleep, progressive minutes and steps, arsenic greenish bars.

I’ll beryllium keeping an oculus connected the Fitbit app to spot if MED ID 5.0 volition beryllium joined by much apps, oregon if it was a mistake and volition beryllium removed shortly. Versa 4 and Sense 2 owners mightiness privation to caput to their Fitbit app soon for a first-hand look successful lawsuit the second is true.