The Fitbit-to-Google account migration deadline moves to 2026

After Google completed its acquisition of Fitbit successful aboriginal 2021, the institution integrated Fitbit’s services with its own and required users to migrate existing Fitbit accounts to a Google account by 2025. But successful an email sent to Fitbit users today, Google present says that deadline has been extended until adjacent year. 

“As we person antecedently shared, Fitbit is present a portion of Google, and Fitbit Account holders volition request to modulation to Google Accounts to proceed utilizing Fitbit,” the email says. “If you privation to support utilizing Fitbit, you indispensable determination to a Google Account by February 2, 2026.”

In summation to not being capable to proceed to usage the Fitbit work aft the caller deadline, the email besides warns users that “your humanities information volition not beryllium retained beyond February 2, 2026 (except arsenic needed to comply with laws), and your relationship and information volition beryllium deleted.” Those not wanting to migrate person the enactment to “download oregon delete your information anytime connected oregon before” the caller deadline.

Following the acquisition, Google had besides announced that activating caller Fitbit hardware (including the Pixel Watch 2 and Fitbit Charge 6), accessing caller wellness features, oregon creating a caller Fitbit relationship would necessitate a Google relationship starting successful 2023. The institution positioned the requirements arsenic being a much convenient unified login solution for Fitbit users who would besides beryllium capable to negociate their Fitbit wellness information done the Google Privacy Center.