Location sharing notification after opening app

[Keseel]

Recently every time I open the app A notice pops up to enable location sharing and GPS. It is very frustrating I do not want location sharing and GPS and say no thanks every time. How do I turn this notification off so I do not see it whenever I open the app?

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[RicardoFitbit · Accepted solution]

Hello again @Keseel, welcome to the Community Forums.

Google changed its permission requirements beginning with Android OS 6.0. As a result, the locations permission is necessary to sync your Fitbit device with an Android device. The Fitbit app needs the locations services option on your phone to be turned on in order to perform the Bluetooth low energy scans required to sync your tracker. For more information about how your tracker syncs, see How do Fitbit devices sync their data?

Google added the locations permission requirement to alleviate concerns that Bluetooth beacons can be used to track your location without your permission during a Bluetooth low energy scan, such as the scan required to sync your tracker. By granting the Fitbit app permission to access your location, your tracker will be able to sync, but your location won't be recorded or tracked by Fitbit.

For more information about Bluetooth technology, visit the Bluetooth Special Interest Group's website at bluetooth.com and for details about the Google permission requirements, see Google's Android 6.0 Changes document.

I'll be around if you need anything else.

[TobiasMc75]

I don’t care. I don’t want gps on abs I don’t want the notification every time I look at my Fitbit application. How do you turn this notification off.