Inspire 3 for child

[Techbrentc]

Inspire 3 gifted to my 9yo daughter. She has a child's Google account linked to myself, so naturally fitbit linked to that. It seems that I cannot set up her to watch because she's listed as a child. Is there a way around this?

[alexthecat]

@Techbrentc there really isn't a way to fix this. The Inspire 3 is intended for ages 13 and up. There isn't a way to set it up for a child your daughter's age. 

[miyabara]

Hi. I'm having an issue to setup the Inspire 3 for my 14yo son. He already have an Google account that is connected into our family account. The issue is that I have installed the Fitbit app on his mobile phone and logged in with his Google account. After that the Fitbit app don't recognizes him as a 14yo. Rather than that it only show options for children under 12yo Fitbit models. I already canceled his account on Fitbit. But now I'm getting a wait time for about a month until he can login again. So, if there's no option to fix this, I'll have to cancel and send the Inspire 3 back to the seller and buy a smartband from another brand.

[alexthecat]

@miyabara If you take a look at this thread, it describes a workaround that someone found for a similar situation. I hope that will also work for you. 

[miyabara]

Hi Amanda,

thank you for the link. I'll try it and afterwards I'll post if it worked. Thanks again!

Best,

Dalton

[Cora1234]

You're right!  But I also want to add that it won't work for a child OLDER than 13 whose Google account is still SUPERVISED in Google Family Link.  Any Google account that is supervised can only be attached to a child's Fitbit ACE watch (per Fitbit Tech support).  Good luck getting our supervised teenagers to wear a multi-colored child's watch!

[miyabara]

Hi Amanda,

I tried to delete my son's account from the Family Link. Can't do it for now as he does have a lot of stuff on his phone and it would cause a lot of trouble to reinstall everything and even to configure all the apps again. 

 I believed that, as Fitbit is a Google company, it would work flawlessly with an android phone, but in the end, I can clearly see that both companies are still out of track to do a real good fine tuning with their apps and gadgets.

Unfortunately I'll have to take the hard step to return the Inspire 3 and get another smartwatch from Samsung or another brand that would not be so troublesome to configure for a real simple smartwatch to a teenager. 

But, thank you so much for your support.