How to authorize apps to interact with my Fitbit account?

[Jennjeh]

how do I authorize apps to interact with my Fitbit account? I found two "approved" apps I like and I can't get them to interact with fitbit... any advice out there?

Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity

[Mcore]

It's great to have you here @Jennjeh! In order to link your Fitbit account with other third party apps you need to make sure that they can interact with Fitbit. Log to this page to find out which apps are compatible with Fitbit. Each one of the apps have their own instructions on how to link both accounts.

If you have any other questions, please let me know. 

[EmmaLouRoo]

Hi i revoked the access for my fitness pal app and i cant figure out how to fix this. Its not syncing and will not connect. Help!!

[RobertoME]

Hello there @EmmaLouRoo, welcome aboard to the Fitbit Community! I saw your post while I was around in this board. My apologies for the late response and I'm wondering how it goes? Were you able to connect your MyFitnessPal account again?

In case you still need help, please refer to this post for more help: Fitbit and MFP not syncing! Here I provided all the steps from revoking the access, to connecting your tracker to MFP.

Hope this helps.

[EmmaLouRoo]

I managed to get it sorted. Thank you

Get Outlook for Android

[keltim]

I looked at the apps that are compatible with my fitbit Charge 3 and there are no weather apps.  Some say they have weather on their fitbits that work.  what weather app are they using?

[Zelda410]

It says I have authorized several apps to interact with my Fitbit account, but I did not do that.  Things like Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, etc.

How do I UNAUTHORIZE these apps from interacting with my Fitbit account?  Will everything still work if I do unauthorize them? 

Thank you for you help.

[LanuzaFitbit]

Hello @Zelda410 .

I apologize for the delay in my response.

In this case I'd like to recommend that you follow the steps listed in this help article. The steps to remove apps from getting access to your Fitbit account itself are under the 'How do I manage apps connected to my Fitbit account" section.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

[Zelda410]

I tried to find the Revoke Access button both on the Fitbit app and on the
dashboard. It is not there. Is that because apps like Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube, etc. are not considered third-party apps. Do I HAVE to
provide access to these apps?

[LanuzaFitbit]

Hello @Zelda410.

Thanks for checking in there and letting me know that they don't show.

In this case my question would be if you have, at any point, connected those apps to your Fitbit account. If not, then I wouldn't worry because there is no way for them to get information from your Fitbit account.

Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.

[Zelda410]

No, I never connected them to my account. It just says at the top that I
authorized access to them when I didn't.

Thank you for your reply. Much appreciated.

Moderator edit: Removed links

[LanuzaFitbit]

Hello @Zelda410.

Thanks for bringing that up.

Could you share some screenshots of that message that you are getting? I'd like to take a closer look at what is going on.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

[Zelda410]

I can't seem to take a screen shot of the page on my phone. it says I can
share it to GMail, WhatsApp, etc. but nothing to take a screen shot. I
looked for the page on my laptop dashboard, but can't find it.

When you press the account icon on the home page (on the phone dashboard) ,
it says Manage Data, then, Manage Third-Party Apps . Revoke access to
third-party apps here. Then:

Applications
You have authorized these apps to interact with your Firbit account. Then,
there are several icons:

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest,Youtube, Google Plus and BLOG.

Then, links to things like About Us, Careers, Retailers, etc.

That's all I can tell you. Does that help?


Virus-free.
www.avast.com

<#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

[LanuzaFitbit]

Hello @Zelda410.

Thanks for letting me know. 

In this case those are not apps that are connected to your phone. Those are official Fitbit channels in those apps. You can also see the same at the very bottom of the forums like in the picture below.

Hope this clarifies the situation. Let me know if you have any further questions.

[Zelda410]

Thank you VERY much for your quick and useful reply.  I now feel more secure about what apps are and are not accessing the infomration on my Fitbit account.

[LanuzaFitbit]

Hello @Zelda410.

Glad to read that my post was useful to you! 

If you have the time, be sure to visit one of our Discussion boards. Lots of different topics to talk about with other users, maybe something will pique your interest.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

[Nonnanaz]

I have the same issue. How did you get it to work again?