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 

[pbug56]

I don't understand how they even feel ok with making the excuse that they are still exploring ways to use it.  They had even said that it would be good for sleep monitoring in regards to apnea, plus they know that it can be helpful to monitor o2 levels during exercise.  Very strange.  I definitely don't trust them anymore.

[pbug56]

This was a big part of why I bought my Versa.

[jt11]

doesn't really answer anyone's question about when we get what we paid for!

[RealSting]

FitBit have ensured that I’ll NEVER be purchasing any of their products again on the basis of false advertising. I bought the ionic because of the SPo2 back in 2017.. it’s now mid 2019, they’ve released new products yet have done nothing to bring us the SPo2 on the ionic as promised.

[cameron_b]

if it is working on the charge 3, where does it display the sleep apnea data. A working SPO2 sensor is the main reason i bought this device for myself & friends. If it’s not working, then it shouldn’t be advertised- that is very misleading. 

[pbug56]

Outside of advertising, we have zero reason to believe that any Fitbit actually has a SPO2 sensor.  Period.  At best it's what's called vaporware.  As I understand it,Fitbit claims, amazingly enough, that it can't figure out what to do with the sensors.  We've all been saying - apnea, effects of exercise on O2 levels, effects of illness on O2 levels, and more.  A couple years ago I got sick with multiple respiratory bugs at the same time; I probably went to the ER much later than I should have.  When I did go, it was light exercise with an O2 monitor on my finger that made the docs decide I needed to be admitted.  Hours later blood tests told them what was really going on.  If I had a fitbit with a work SPO2 sensor at the time, I think I would have understood a lot sooner just how very sick I was.  But to Fitbit, their claims seem to just be a way to sell more product without actually delivering on what the ads claimed.  I was a software developer for 20 years, and I'd have gotten fired many times over if I claimed that I had something that I didn't.  What makes them immune to their own BS claims?

[GTOJim]

Fitbit is releasing a subscription premium version of the FitBit app.

  I sure hope Fitbit doesn't plan to charge fee's for using  the SPO2 sensor when it's finally released? The Ionic was released two years ago and the SPO2 still hasn't been activated.  

[Nadro]

If FitBit disables ANY built-in hardware features for non-premium
subscribers, I will run over my Charge 3 with my car (which I'm already
very close to doing anyway). Using software to remove functionality and
artificially create demand for premium subscriptions is completely
unethical, and I won't have anything to do with any company that behaves
this way.

[pbug56]

And a year since I've gotten my Versa. SPO2 was a big part of why I bought
it.

[pbug56]

That the software doesn't support the SPO2 isn't high under the 'ethical'
idea either. You can't turn off what you've never turned on. Assuming it
even exists in the first place.

[G1XOZ]

This was a year ago and I still can’t find SpO2 app to download?

[pbug56]

It's called Vaporware.

[G1XOZ]

Nope nothing found in app search so any idea where I can find it

Sent from my iPhone

[pbug56]

Let's try this in very basic English - no such app exists.  The SPO2 sensor does not work, if, indeed, it actually exists.  Many of us believe that it doesn't, because Fitbit gives weird excuses when we ask about it.

[G1XOZ]

I Google’ed vaporware and felt a little stupid at first but then irritated by Fitbit AGAIN they are screwing us over 

Why did I ever get the watch on my wrist, oh that’s right it was an expensive gift that can hardly be referred to as much more than a watch

..... I wait for the forum moderator to reply with the “ It’s coming soon ...” reply

[pbug56]

We're all unhappy about it.  Many of us bought our Fitbits for both the pulse rate and the O2 reader.  We got the pulse rate, which USUALLY works, but not the O2 reader, at least not usable.  And when we ask, we are told such things as they are still trying to figure out what they can do with it.  We've told them many times, and still no new answer.

[GTOJim]

I'm sorry if my post caused some confusion regarding the SP02 sensor. 

Fitbit is releasing a  premium app as an option to the free app we all have been using. 

What I attempted to say.  When the SP02 sensor is activated I hope it works with the  free version of the Fitbit app.   

If the SPO2 becomes an option only for the  premium app,  not included in the free app.  I might send my Ionic to land fill.

The only reason I purchased an Ionic was for the SP02 feature, not realizing it wasn't activated.

Shortly after it's  release I purchased a charge 3 for my wife because of the SpO2 feature. Read rumors at the time, the SP02 was being tested.

It's been about a year since the Charge 3 release, about two years since the Ionic was released and still no working SP02 for any official release Fitbit device.

Twice burned if Fitbit thinks I would pay to use the SPO2  when it is activated, think again. 

This is my opinion only, I do not know what Fitbit will do regarding the Sp02 sensor.

Considering the extreme amount of time with Fitbit management's lack of transparency I tend to agree it is vaporware. 

[aspexil]

I do not see how any fitbit device can provide SPO2 readings. I recently bought a device to read SPO2 and it has a sensor emitting light on one side and a sensor on the other side reading the light and it wraps around my finger. The color changes depending on how much oxygen is in the blood (red to blue) and it can only be done with two sensors on either end of the finger to read through the blood in the finger. So thinking fitbit is going to somehow read SPO2 I just do not see how. 

[pbug56]

One could make the same argument about one's pulse.  My assumption is the the alleged device uses light reflected from the wrist, same way it clearly does the pulse.  Not that I still believe that there is an O2 sensor.

[burns_erin]

Well Fitbit way doing something different with the sleep beta, there were other color things going. So there's something. But I doubt they'll let us have it.