Refresh Fitbit Weather app or weather clocks periodically in the Fitbit app or do a Sync from Watch

[dwberman]

In order to refresh Fitbit's Weather app or a weather clock face, it is necessary to open and refresh the Fitbit on my Android phone. This defeats the purpose of having this weather information on your wrist because you have open your phone anyway. It would be very helpful if the Weather app and the clocks could be updated at selectable intervals in the Fitbit app or you could have the ability to to initiate a Sync from the phone.'

[Guy_]

Your symptoms would indicate that your watch is not syncing properly or the phone is not syncing with the weather.

Your watch normally picks up the weather from the phone, if the phone hasn't been used in a while and the weather is not auto syncing it will ask you to get the weather updated on the phone in order to retrieve it.

Go to the weather app on the phone and check the auto refresh frequency and refresh when app opens are correctly set [for Android phones].

This will resolve the issue.

[dwberman]

The Fitbit Weather App version 128.4.17, which I believe is the latest, does not offer a setting for refresh. The only settings I see are for Unit and list of cities.

[Guy_]

See the weather app of your phone, as indicated. It's not the Fitbit one but the phone one.

[SunsetRunner]

Actually @Guy_ you do need the Fitbit app running in the background, in fact if you don't it'll notify you to keep it in the background in order to sync!  @dwberman is absolutely correct, the weather app DOES NOT have any option for auto refresh or refresh when app opens so if you have to post solutions make sure they are correct.

[Guy_]

@SunsetRunner  Yes of course the Fitbit App needs to be running in background, though if it wasn't there would be more than just an issue with the weather, there would be notifications issues and sync issues as well, which were not mentioned. Though it is also wise to check it.

[SunsetRunner]

Well @Guy_ my Garmin does not need the app running in the background to sync properly, when I finish a run it's generally synced uploaded to Strava and i've received my first kudos even before i've taken my shoes off!!  Fitbit on the other hand, I have to fish my phone out of it's pocket, find the Fitbit app, open it and hope it does open correctly and then attempt to sync it.  Normally multiple times as it generally fails to sync properly.  If Garmin and others can sync their devices without their app being in the background then why can't Fitbit?

[Guy_]

@SunsetRunner  Unfortunately it seems there is something wrong with your Fitbit setup on your phone.

[SunsetRunner]

Not at all @Guy_ there is nothing wrong with the setup on my phone.  The problem is that the app is unreliable and clearly poorly written.

[Guy_]

@SunsetRunner  odd. Works fine for me and others.

[SunsetRunner]

You clearly don't read the same threads on here that I do then.  For example, my wife's Sense which is connected correctly to her 2020 iPhone SE never gets notifications and syncs maybe once every few days if she's lucky.  The Versa 3 that I have correctly connected to my iPhone does get notifications, but I normally must force a sync to make it synchronise.  Oh, and before you tell me to try something, all appropriate notifications settings are on, the watch is not in DND mode and both app and iOS are up to date.

[dwberman]

Amen

[Guy_]

@SunsetRunnerYour syncing issues need resolving, see of Sync setup and troubleshooting to get things on track.

[SunsetRunner]

@Guy_ ummm..no I don't.  I also don't need to read any links you send either.  See the signature under my username? That means Fitbit CC and if we can't sort out the products we are on here to promote and help with then there's no hope for anyone.

[Rich_Laue]

I'll swipe up to see weather. If needed, I tap the weather to initiate sync with the weather server, and in 10-15 seconds, I see the weather. 

[R.M]

I don’t have my watch right now, but I’ve tested it with the fiancee Fitbit Sense and the fiancee Samsung Galaxy S9+. I do this: I turn on wifi, bluetooch and GPS location on my phone. I open the Fitbit app and sync with Fitbit Sense in it. I open the weather on the phone and update the weather on it. Then, when you need to see the weather on the Fitbit Sense watch, open the weather forecast in it and click on the weather forecast - after immediately, or a few seconds(if everything on the phone has been switched off and reconnected to the phone, but the weather on the phone has not been synchronized) it shows the weather. By the way, I noticed when the weather is updating on the clock, then the weather on the phone is not updating and shows the weather forecast I synchronized for the first time. That means my fiancé’s Fitbit Sense syncs perfectly and shows the weather correctly, (continue)-> buthad to be replenished. After a while, for example, 20-30 minutes, when the clock is always connected to the phone, pressing on the weather shows that the clock is out of sync, but after a while 5-10 seconds or because pressing several times on the weather, shows weather.  I don’t know if that has to be the case, but for me and my fiancée, this feature isn’t the most important thing, I did it just because maybe it will bring clarity to someone.

And I noticed that it happens to not sync right after clicking on the weather: