Message notifications on Blaze

[dwang953]

Hi everyone! Just two quick questions about the Blaze's notifications system:

1) From my understand, "text message notifications" on the Surge are limited to SMS messages, meaning iMessages between iPhones do not show up on the device. Is this also true for the Blaze? Almost all of my contacts that I text on my iPhone 6 are also iPhone users, so all of their texts are iMessages. Will none of these show up on the Blaze? 

2) From my understand, the Surge only shows single most recent text message, as in if you miss a text notification, a newer text will erase the old notifcation. Is this also true for the Blaze, or will it be possible to view all of the unread notifications from texts? 

[MrsStorm]

Also, I had to make sure I only used the messaging that came with my Galaxy
Note 4 as well as I turned on the feature to have messages pop up.

Mrs. Christian D. Tobin

[lenman]

I have just purchased the blaze and it does not bring up a calendar or show any text etc? My phone is a samsung 6s and it is connected through bluetooth.

I have viewed the software through my laptop and phone.

[Rich_Laue]

Hi there @lenman did you look at the main post on notifications.

There are settings to check in both the phone, and app, plus one on the Blaze.

If you need more help the please let us know what phone you have, Android or iOS

 https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Blaze/Blaze-Notifications-Information-Post/td-p/1198545

[AngelaMa]

Welcome to the Fitbit Community @lenman!  where you able to set up the notifications on your phone? If you are having issues with notifications I would recommend to review this article. @Rich_Laue and @MrsStorm thanks for your cooperation! 

Happy stepping! 🙂 

[Kippo]

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@EmersonFitbit wrote:

@Hitz As a reminder, only one of these messaging applications will work at a time, so use wisely. 

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Hi Emerson  - i dont understand why only one message application can be used at a time. Surley the Bluetooth protocol allows communication between the App on the phone and the Blaze, anything data can be transmitted. So this is a designed software limitation of the app itself? Surley this can be fixed by a simple software update? 

[kate25]

I am interested in the fitbit blaze and I understand that it will show phone call and text message notifications, but does it only show the notifications or can you use the blaze to respond by texting and calling from the watch?

[SunsetRunner]

@kate25 the Blaze only shows notifications. You can't respond to them from the Blaze.

[AngelaMa]

Hello @Kippo and @kate25 welcome to the Fitbit Community! It's great to have you here 😉 @Kippo that's a great idea, I would suggest to visit our feature request board, this is the best place to make your voice heard, our product developers visit this board regularly to make sure customer are getting what they want and need. I found this idea: Tracker Notifications for More Apps you can vote for it and add your comments. @kate25 as mentioned by @SunsetRunner the Blaze will only receive the notifications. On iOS devices you can answer the call, this feature is not available for Android users. You can read more on the Blaze Notifications Information Post

I'll be around if you have any questions. 

[Shineom123]

I have just bought the Blaze after having the I watch as I preferred the fitness tracking app on Fitbit. I used to have a garmin band for half the price of the blaze and yet I can't seem to receive all my notifications from my iPhone! Particularly iMessage and data messages from other apps? It surely cannot be restricted to text messages?? This is a sophisticated piece of kit, there must be an update or way to enable data message / notifications to show up on the blaze?? I have all my notification settings ON my iPhone for iMessage , what's app viber pages etc...??? Please help as this surely must be available for the price tag. Help much appreciated as otherwise love the blaze. But might have to get a garmin 😞 which doesn't link to my studio mind body app. Thanks so much!

[Suzeeh]

You cannot respond to notifcations from the watch itself.

[Suzeeh]

I just spoke to Fitbit about a problem I was having with not receiving my calendar notifications.  I would put an event on my calendar but it would not pop up on the Blaze.  The problem turned out to be that I did not put an alert on my iphone calendar for it to show up 5 min., 10 min or whatever time before the event itself.  So I spent a lot of frustration thinking it was a Blaze problem when in fact it was user error.  Hope this will help someone.

[michel76]

I missed a reaction on this. I have a Basis Peak and all notifications on my iPhone 6 are displayed on the Peak. This includes Whatsapp, bbc news, ring.com doorbel etc. I would love to buy a Blaze as I like this Fitbit app better but this is keeping me from doing so. Why isn't this possible on the Blaze? Is this a design flaw or something you can fix in a software update?

[NeneLoco]

@AngelaMa - Hello Angela, @Majestak asked a question a while back and as I read through the posts I didnt see an answer. The issue is when I get consecutive messages, regardless if they come from the same person or not, they all get lumped in as 1 and all I see is a notification stating "2 new texts" and the person or persons names. When this happens, I have no way of reading the messages or at least none that I've figured out. If I get 1 message at a time with a minute or so in between, I dont have the issue.

Has this come up in other conversations, by other users, or do you have a suggestion?

[Rich_Laue]

@NeneLoco this question has come up many times, and the answer is almost always tye same. Change your messageing app. 

If your using an android device, with the default messaging app, we dont know which app your using, but you are receing messages the wqy Android is setup to display them. You would also see that they show on the phones lock screen this way.

I use Google Messanger to get around Androids limitation.

[AngelaMa]

Hello @Shineom123 and @michel76, welcome to the Fitbit Community! 🙂 @Shineom123 You can select only one of your message applications to receive the notifications. You can read more about notification on the Blaze Notifications Information Post. @Suzeeh thanks for your cooperation! 🙂  @michel76 currently it's not possible to receive message notifications from several applications, I would suggest to add your vote and comments to the idea: Tracker Notifications for More Apps on the feature request board. @NeneLoco If you receive more than one text message in succession from the same person, your tracker may group the messages together as "2 New Messages" or "3 New Messages" instead of showing a preview of the message text. @Rich_Laue thanks for the cooperation! 🙂 

Let me know if you have any questions! 🙂 

[amazingstephani]

yes but only one messege app at  time

[Rich_Laue]

Yes it is true thwy only one messaging app at a time,  but suppose tge comunity made a program that Fitbit sees as a messaging app, and this app will look at all your other apps that give notofacation, passes them on to Fitbit, who dosplays them on the tracker.

In the android app store their are 3 such programs. 

For me i get on my wrist, Fitbit notifacations,  email headers and senders name, facebook popups, my phones weather warnings, google plus, Google rewards, and of course my text messages.

[AngelaMa]

Hello @amazingstephani yes you can only use one message notification at the time. The idea for 
More Notifications was already suggested on the Feature Request board, vote and add your comments. 🙂 @Rich_Laue thanks for your cooperation! 🙂 

Catch you later! 😉  

[kgbman]

OK but in the future Blaze will be able to display messages from other apps like Viber? I using viber instead of iMessage. You know, not all friends have Apple products but they all have viber, messenger os whatsapp.

[AngelaMa]

Hello @kgbman I can not answer your questions as I don't have any information about this but I noticed that on the idea I shared above the user is not mentioning Viber, make sure to add your comment requesting this app to be compatible with notifications. 

Thanks for stopping by!