A retrospective of Feature Suggestions in 2018!

[LizFitbit]

Hi everyone,

We had a total of *drumroll* 89 feature suggestions released in 2018, which you can see here. These had a total of 18,250 votes between them… which is a high impact!

• Released suggestions included a top-10 voted suggestion to keep device screen on longer which was rolled out for Fitbit Versa and Fitbit Ionic
• Other popular releases included a longer alarm for Fitbit Versa and Fitbit Ionic as well as the screen staying on for notifications on device.
• User-created groups in the Fitbit Community in the mobile app allowed dozens of suggestions to be released!
• 14 new requested banks released for Fitbit Pay!
• Various suggestions for Charge 3 including quick replies and more clock faces (though there are more to come still!)
• Various suggestions for Female Health Tracking including a period extension and Separate ON/OFF switch for Predictions (Fertility Window & Period)
• 2 new features for Family accounts and Fitbit Ace including allowing ace users to add friends with parent's control
• We forged many partnerships including integrations with My Swimpro and Couch to 5k  

We have already released 19 suggestions for January 2019 and there's more to come! Coming soon will be:

• • More Accurate Battery Life or % in Mobile App (another top-10 suggestion)
  • Find my phone app
  • Favorite section for recently used Clock Faces for Fitbit Ionic and Fitbit Versa

You can explore more suggestions that are under consideration here, of which there are over 100 compared to around 30 at this time last year.

We've been working hard to make sure your voices are heard at Fitbit and the suggestions that you want are added to our roadmap or incorporated into next generation devices. Thanks so much for sharing your suggestions, votes and comments with us, we really appreciate your feedback.

If you want an overview of how Feature Suggestions works, check out our infographic here or visit our FAQs.