No email notifications?!

[FurMom]

Purchased the Blaze for my Note 5 yesterday. I was so excited to start using it, especially after seeing reviews and comparing it to the Surge. My excitement slowly began to go away.Not being able to read multiple messages from one person and worst of all...no email notifications??! I'm a busy person and I can't look at my phone all the time. Being able to stay on top of my messages would've been a huge help. I'm really disappointed in my purchase. Please, please is there a way to fix these notification problems?

[bbarrera]

Yes, only call, text and calendar alerts. A mystery why it doesn't support all notifications as both Android and iOS make this really easy for companies like Fitbit to implement.

Someone with an Android phone can help you workaround the multiple text issue.

[FurMom]

I like the watch otherwise it just baffles me that with today's technology, it doesn't have email notifications. Crossing fingers it's something they can put in.

[bbarrera]

Mysterious and baffling that it doesn't support full notifications. Both Google and Apple have made full notifications easy for wearable vendors to implement, and all the user needs to do is control what appears on the lock screen. Limiting a device to just text/email/call notifications is a mystery for many of us, during the day I rely on wrist notifications from family texts, Skype, LinkedIn, Meetup, Strava, and for two weeks this August my NBC Sports / Olympics app. For others its Snapchat, Facebook, or Instagram. My point - I'm sure most at Fitbit also rely on apps that are not phone/text/calendar, and Google/Apple make it easy to add notifications to wearables - so that is why I say its a great mystery that the Blaze only supports calls/calendar/text notifications.

There is a request in the Feature Requests forum that you can search for and vote on, if you like.

[AlejandraFitbit]

Welcome to the Community @FurMom and @bbarrera thanks for stopping by and for the information.  Actually, there's already a request about it under the name More Notifications, I recommend taking a look at it, vote for it and leave your comment. 

Keep the stepping up! 

[Ryanxiety]

I'm just setting mine up and I thought it was bugged until I saw this post. It specifically says it supports notifications in the description, but I didn't really consider that they meant just a few uncommon notifications.

[Rich_Laue]

@FurMom the reason your not able to read multiple texts from the same user is because your still using the default Android messaging app, this is the way it is set up by android. Try Google messanger, messanger+, i like the App called inbox. 

@Ryanxiety by notifacations i assume fitbit is thinking of text messages, something that has been around for 50 plus years. 

I found bitTicker works great, it interfaces between fitbit and the phones notifacation panal. This allows you to choose any or every app to receive notifacations on the tracker. 

[FurMom]

@Rich_Laue Installed Google Messanger and it worked! Thanks for the help. Now I don't have to wonder what my messages say while I'm out running.