Turn Bluetooth off on Blaze?

[SimplyAdventure]

Based on this feature request thread (and others like it) https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Requests/Ability-to-Turn-Tracker-Blutooth-On-and-Off/idi-p/8...

I'm curious, will the Blaze have an option to turn Bluetooth off/on? The pros are outlined elsewhere nicely, but since the Blaze has a menu system it should be a pretty trivial change (it's just a software flag after all). Pretty much anything that looks like a smartwatch has an "Airplane" mode.

I'm assuming it does, but I'd rather confirm 🙂

Google did not provide me the answer to this. Also I'd ask that if you want to discuss pros/cons of the feature you toss them into the thread above (where it looks like Fitbit staff is actually reading). 

[Julia_G · Accepted solution]

Fitbit has not announced this option, so it is probably safest to assume that it will not be available -- at least not at launch.

[SimplyAdventure]

@Julia_G I don't know, airplane mode is fairly ubiquitous. It's only Fitbit's Surge take on Bluetooth that has me asking since it was excluded. However, I am waiting to click buy until I get an answer. It's not critical for me but always good to know exactly what you are buying.

Edited to include your username and streamline points.

[MikeF]

Clearly Fitbit's opinion may differ from yours on this matter and since they're the ones who spent the money developing the Blaze, I guess their opinion carried more weight with the dev team. As ever, you're perfectly free not to buy one if it doesn't do what you want.

[SimplyAdventure]

When you look at the competition it's a pervasive feature, not really an opinion. I asked a question here hoping that someone with a factual answer would reply.

The product documentation doesn't state one way or the other and of the 10 reviews or so that I've read that hasn't been addressed yet either. Whether FitBit decided to include the feature was clearly up to product development, and I included a link to a thread discussing merits simply to discourage anything except a "Yes" or "No" response to this post so that it could inform my (and others) decision to pre-order. Nothing less, nothing more.

So yeah, I'm asking a factual question awaiting a factual answer from someone who has hands on experience with the product. Given it's pre-release status, that likely means a Fitbit employee.

[MikeF]

Sorry you think that, it's not the intent. I've seen you around posting this question often enough over the last couple of weeks, however, that I assumed you were well aware of the standard Fitbit policy approach on this point from all the other answers you've already debated in other threads.

Of course, if I've made a mistake then I apologise.

[SimplyAdventure]

No worries Mike, will edit posts when back from lunch.

First post on Bluetooth. I made a handful of comments around waterproofing (mostly trying to get clear answers), but that's it. Fitbit's are otherwise perfect in my opinion and I'll likely go another 5 years without a post once I get the BT answer 🙂

For waterproofing I've now come to the conclusion that the answer is "no, not at all" from a being safe perspective. Which is fine, I'll live with it.

Now just nailing down Bluetooth, and I'll pre-order the Blaze. It really is a stellar device and I love the ecosystem.

[Jom98]

Hi
Is there flight mode in Blaze,
I mean Ability to turn off/on Bluetooth ??

If no I hope to add this feature to Blaze That Will really help me a lot.

[Rich_Laue]

@Jom98, i have merged your post with the thread that answers your question

[SimplyAdventure]

@Rich_Laue Appreciate you merging the threads. We are actually still waiting for an answer here too if this is a feature or not. So far I've been unable to find any documentation and nobody on this thread has hands on experience or insight into whether the Blaze has an airplane mode.

Hopefully along with the merging someone from Fitbit will respond with a solid yes or no 🙂

[Julia_G]

As an ability to turn off BT would be a feature different from all other Fitbit trackers to date, I think we can be confident that it would have been announced if it were included on the Blaze.

[EmersonFitbit · Accepted solution]

Hey everyone!

Blaze doesn't ship with the ability to disable Bluetooth (the "Airplane mode" so to speak). You'll have the ability to toggle BT Classic on/off/pair mode, but that's related to certain phones that aren't optimized for Music Control using regular BT. 

Hope this helps provide a bit of clarification.

[SimplyAdventure]

@EmersonFitbit Thank you for the factual response! Much appreciated. While it's not a deal breaker for me, this is actually a fairly important consideration for some. 

[Belanna84]

I was wondering the same thing...  Since I usually put my phone in airplane mode at night because I don't like the idea of having electromagnetic waves around even at night I think my best option is to either take the Blaze off at night or shutting it off right? 

[Rich_Laue]

You would also want to unplug every cloxk, motor, don't forget thqt every wire, and.light also put out EMF

[ThePreacher]

Turning off Bluetooth would give you no noticeable increase in battery life. The blaze uses Bluetooth low energy which uses 0.01w compared to Bluetooth Classic at 1w.

[AngelaMa]

Hello @Belanna84, @Rich_Laue and @ThePreacher It's great to have you here!  As mentioned before the Blaze doesn't have the ability to turn off the Bluetooth, I found this suggestions has been made on the Feature Request board click here to be redirected, vote and add your comments! 

Thanks for stopping by!