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You can't just download any music from phone. Music industry is to blame 🙂
For example... I have iPhone and Apple Music subscription. Apple Music is based on streaming. Yes, it let's you download music but only on Apple ID connected devices (iPad, iPhone, Mac). And you don't have a right to freely distribute that music where you like (and songs are not DRM -free anyway).
edit: What I wanted to say is ... it's complicated. You have music you ripped from CDs, music you connected to iTunes Match service, music you purchased from iTunes, music you downloaded from Apple Music subscription. It's complicated 😉
Until yesterday some (but not all) of the app screens would display in landscape mode on an iPad. So the app updated yesterday and now NONE of them do. This is incredibly annoying for me since I only access the app on my iPad in a landscape position. PLEASE update the app to display all screens in landscape when appropriate. The app gets zero stars from me until you do.
I agree, you sell Fitbit devices all over the world and claim they are high tech, but you don’t have the technology savvy to allow the IOS app to rotate to landscape mode? I mean really? I can play a kid’s game on the ipad in landscape mode, but can’t view/run the Fitbit app?
Is this just being Lazy, Cheap, or do you have something against IOS users?
I agree, you sell Fitbit devices all over the world and claim they are high tech, but you don’t have the technology savvy to allow the IOS app to rotate to landscape mode? I mean really? I can play a kid’s game on the ipad in landscape mode, but can’t view/run the Fitbit app? Is this just being Lazy, Cheap, or do you have something against IOS users?
I am extremely disappointed that the FitBit app for iPad still can’t be viewed in landscape mode. In this day and age you’d think that the app developers would do everything they could to fix this problem just to remain competitive. Don’t let FitBit become a 2nd rate product because you’re not keeping up with this very simple technology. Why give people a reason to choose another product just to get a better user interface?
This issue has plagued an unknown number of users for several years. It appears that Fitbit can correct the problem, as has been demonstrated on several occasions. But the correction is only temporary and possibly has a negative effect on a greater number of other users.
I’ve watched the most annoying issue long enough to conclude it is of little importance to the company since it only affects a small percentage of their customers, and it’s time to weigh in on limited options. It’s quite obvious that there aren’t enough dissatisfied customers, who voice their opinions, to make a difference. And many disgruntled users just don’t take time to share their displeasure.
Why isn't there a way to rotate the fitbit app to landscape view on an ipad? Is it too difficult for your programmers to do or do you just not care about your customers? If it's the programmers, can't you hire a couple better ones? Just curious.
Some of the screens rotate between portrait and landscape - expand any of the graphs and they will. So the “programmers” know how to do this. Why won’t they do this for the dashboard and all the other screens? A previous update of the app would load the dashboard in landscape mode but that functionality was actually removed in subsequent updates to the app...go figure
Yes @Maggiele that is what I stated, Fitbit doesn't make a stand alone app for the iPad, but let's the users use the iPhone version. The iPhone app is not optimized for the iPad.
Fitbit... Helloooooooooooo??? Anybody in there??? I'm a fairly new user and couldn't believe when I found out that it's an app issue and not a settings issue that auto rotate is not available on the iPad. Really? It's 2018... don't embarrass yourselves by not being able to fix this issue. This should be like tying your own shoes by 3rd grade. Let's go Fitbit.
To add my voice to everyone else’s: Please fix the app so that it is possible to use in landscape mode. I use the app on my iPad which is attached to a keyboard. The app is very difficult to use in portrait. I just bought my Fitbit —now I am wondering if perhaps I should return it.
Interesting point @Jcbit I rarely see anybody today that knows the correct way to tie their shoes. Most people make a granny not and not the more secure square not. If the second half is made the same as the first half it is done wrong
The android dashboard use to rotate showing just the top five tiles, but it has been removed. You should be able to rotate the single charts.
Adding to hundreds? of requests for landscape on the IPad app. Ridiculous that your loyal consumers have been asking FOR YEARS! and no move has been made to accommodate thousands of users. For a “tech” company this should not even have to be asked for. It should be a given. Over time, it may be enough for buyers to find another company to purchase their fitness tracker from. I’m disappointed to say the least.
It took me a while. But I eventually came to realize that all the posts in this blog are NEVER EVER READ by anyone inside the organization called Fitbit. It’s just you and me nattering in together. Achieves nothing at all as far as communicating with Fitbit as an organization, or somebody that cares what their users are saying. I brought this issue up years ago. Nothing ever done. No comments ever made by Fitbit. Nothing. Anyway. I’ve gone left Fitbit. Totally frustrated. Apple Watch. So many developers producing up to date apps in a healthy and competitive market, ensures users a Voice.
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