When will the Spo2 sensor will be available?

[Coachalan]

Has there been any update when the spo2 sensor will be available for use. It was the only reason I chose this watch over the others I was looking to buy.

Moderator edit: Updated subject for clarity 

[BryanCork]

Any danger we'll get an update as to when this functionality is going to be made available? Why are fitbit hiding from their customers on this one?

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @AddyRazz  thanks for sharing all those details about this topic. My apologies for the delay.

@DodgedABullet welcome to the Fitbit Forums. The Fitbit Community was created to exchange ideas, solutions, tips, techniques, and information about the Fitbit products and services. If you need more details about Fitbit Ionic, I'll be glad to give you a hand with that.

@MerlinStWahgwan thanks for sharing the link to vote and comment about this feature: Pulse Ox SpO2 data Basic 24-7 Graph. 

@Gryzor In order to have the Forums organized, I'd recommend to stay on the topic. @BryanCork We'll update this thread as soon as we have more details on this.

@WavyDavey and @SunsetRunner I really appreciate the information that you provided about the Sleep Score beta with Fitbit Ionic. If you have feedback about it, feel free to send it using the link provide on that thread.

Thanks for your patience.

[BryanCork]

Thanks for responding. I guess my only observation is that this update
could be 10 years down the line... it doesnt exactly leave me with a warm
fuzzy feeling about fitbit... which is a shame because up until xmas i was
a big fan.

[YojanaFitbit]

Hello @BryanCork  thanks for getting back. My apologies for the delay. You're welcome, we're here to assist you with any inquiry that you might have.

I appreciate the feedback about the update. We expect to have more details about this in the near future. Sorry your feel that way, but we'll still working on this. We're very interested in provide our users new and better options. Thanks a million for your understanding. 

I'll be around if you need anything else.

[BryanCork]

Plenty of sites describing it was a feature... 😕https://gadgetdecision.com/fitbit-charge-3-vs-garmin-vivoactive-3/

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @BryanCork thanks for sharing the information from that site. Fitbit will let you know once we have more updates about this feature. 

I'll be around. 

[pbug56]

It is now late June 2019 and I'm still waiting for sleep monitoring that actually works, that doesn't miss anywhere from a little to most of my sleep time with no explanation, and oh yes, the data from the SPO2 sensor.  That's why I picked Versa, and I'm extremely disappointed that most of what I bought it for turned out to be vaporware.  You can't see your pulse data so you have no clue why it says you're awake when you are sleeping.  And you still don't have the data to see how your apnea is doing.

[pbug56]

1 months after your post, and still nothing on the alleged SPO2 sensor.

[GTOJim]

Any word when Fitbit might start testing/beta testing the SPO2 sensor?   Got an email Fitbit will be releasing a redesigned app. 

[Nadro]

It's pretty clear that this feature is never going to be released; all
we're doing by continuing to talk about it here is make it look like
there's more development activity in this space than there actually is. So
let's all come to terms with the fact that we've been royally scammed, stop
making the FitBit community appear like a responsive user forum, and move
on.

[Rogers007]

Nothing to date regarding the SpO2, who know what the new app may bring. But as they say in the behavioral sciences “yesterday is the best predictor of tomorrow”! 

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @pbug56 @GTOJim @Nadro and @Rogers007 thanks for your patience about this topic. My apologies for the delay.

I appreciate your comments about SPO2 sensor for Fitbit Ionic. You can also vote and comment here: SpO2 for Ionic, Versa and Charge 3. I hope we can share updates soon.

See you around. 

[pbug56]

I don't see any way to vote on the issue.

[GTOJim]

Thanks to the moderator, hopefully my post isn't taken the wrong way. I understand your doing what you can to help people in these forums. I feel this belongs in the Ionic forum not lumped together with other devices in a separate forum. I'm not interested in devices other than the Ionic. I have no interest in voting for a non functioning SPO2 sensor.

My decision for purchasing an Ionic was for the advertised SPO2 sensor. I have sleep apnea, it seemed like a great way to monitor oxygen levels while sleeping. For my use the SPO2 sensor doesn't need to be very accurate. Being able to show a sleep doctor a pattern of SP02 levels dropping during sleep could be a very useful tool for people with Sleep Apnea in need of supplemental oxygen. A working SPO2 sensor could also help diagnose people with untreated Sleep Apea.

Management needs more transparency regarding the SPO2 issue. The non working SPO2 sensor is an issue, especially for people like me who purchased an Ionic for the advertised SPO2 sensor.

The Ionic released in Oct 2017, yet no useful updates or news regarding a fully functional, working SPO2 sensor.

Please lets keep the Ionic SP02 sensor issues or news in the Ionic forum. 

[WavyDavey]

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@pbug56 wrote:
I don't see any way to vote on the issue.

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Just click on the thumbs up icon on the link that @YojanaFitbit  posted. Right now it's at 1455 thumbs up votes with a status of under consideration.

@GTOJim, I understand your point. However, having separate spo2 threads for different models only makes it look like the suggestion is less popular than it really is. We had that problem with votes for Spotify, where the full extent of the interest in the feature wasn't know until all the votes across all the models were counted together. It's really in our best interest to keep things more visible by combing the votes. At least that's how I see it.

[pbug56]

It's not just the Ionic. And lots of us have the same needs that you do,
including me. SPO2 levels would be a huge thing to monitor along with
heart rate. Though I'd have to say that heart rate monitoring is for me,
at least, very iffy. I can be sound asleep, watch reasonably tight
strapped, hand have hours of gaps in my sleep, and if I can tell, sometimes
heart rate data (which they make very hard to read).

[GTOJim]

I just went to the combined SPO2 forum to see what was being voted on.  As I feared the SP02 feature is under consideration.   Translation it's not going to happen.  I think it would be a fair assumption that a fairly small percentage of Ionic owners come to these forums, mainly because of issues, looking for help.  We don't see a lot of posts from people singing praise about the Ionic. 

Regarding the voting, less than 1,500 votes since Nov 2017.  Probably 1% or less  of Ionic owners  voted.   You can see where this is going.

The only reason I purchased the Ionic  was for the advertised SP02 sensor.    I want what I paid for as advertised.   

pbug56 I agree with you about heart rate monitoring being important.  I'm not having any  issues with gaps.  I'm not using  the band that came with my Ionic,  don't know if it makes a difference. 

[GTOJim]

wavydavy    Just poking around in the features forums for the first time, discovered a second forum regarding SPO2 with 412 votes.  Started by someone with a Charge 3

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Suggestions/Pulse-Ox-SpO2-data-Basic-24-7-Graph/idi-p/343026...

[Rogers007]

I wish we could have a forthright response  from Fitbit, to facilitate moving on to another product.

I bought the Ionic  for the advertised SpO2  sensor! 

[WavyDavey]

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@GTOJim wrote:

wavydavy    Just poking around in the features forums for the first time, discovered a second forum regarding SPO2 with 412 votes.  Started by someone with a Charge 3

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Suggestions/Pulse-Ox-SpO2-data-Basic-24-7-Graph/idi-p/343026...

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Nice catch. I'll see if I can get it merged together for the extra votes.