Fitbit Blaze Music Control feature controlling other media playback on my phone

[jordashoran]

Using Fitbit Blaze, linked with my Samsung S5 & Spotify App.

On my Blaze I swiped down to access the music control and instead of showing me the name of the artist and song as expected it was showing me the exact details of my last searched term on Google Chrome (searched on the S5). 

Why can Fitbit access that sort of information? I never agreed to have my search history monitored.

Moderator edit: Clarified subject

[FerdinandFitbit]

Hi @jordashoran. Good to see you in the Fitbit Community Forums! 🙂

I think I have the answer for this as this has happened to me  before.

Music Control doesn't have any access to your Google Chrome search history. Instead, what happens here is that you were probably on a page that was playing some kind of media (on your phone of course) and you locked your phone right after that. You can try this with any Youtube video for example, if you're watching Youtube from your browser and lock your phone and open the Music Control feature, the web address will appear on your Blaze display. Now, as I mentioned before, this has nothing to do with your Blaze accessing your search history or anything like that but it's because it not only controls music but media that you play on your phone.

Hope this answers your question and anything else you may need, I'm always around! 🙂

[jordashoran]

@FerdinandFitbit,

I would appreciate it if you didn't change the title of my post to something of your choosing. The original post title is entirely accurate - "Fitbit Blaze accessing my Chrome content". Please change it back.

Your suggestion, based on no confirmation from me, of what has happened is not applicable. The page in question was the search results page of Google, which, as far as I can tell, has no playable media on it. Even if it was a video from here, Google does not itself play media, but instead links you to a video host, eg. Youtube.com, Facebook.com, etc

As you can see from the image below, this is not what happened in my case. The scrolling text showed the website I was on and my entire search term. There was no media playing at all.

I await your response. 

[jordashoran]

@FerdinandFitbit, do you have any update on this?