Former President Barack Obama is a known Fitbit owner having used the Surge for several years before switching and continuing to use the Ionic. The Ionic was Fitbit’s second smartwatch with a color ...

WASHINGTON — Fitbit, the smart device maker owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, is voluntarily recalling about 1 million of its Ionic smartwatches in the U.S. after reports of over 100 injuries ...

How much is Fitbit giving for the recall? Fitbit is offering a refund of $299 to all Fitbit Ionic customers no matter what you actually paid for the device. Do I need to return the device? Yes. To get ...

More than two years after recalling about 1.7 million Ionic smartwatches sold globally, Google-owned Fitbit will pay a $12.2 million penalty for failing to alert consumers that the products can ...

Former President of the United States, Barack Obama is known for his love for Fitbit smartwatches. Obama first started using the Fitbit Surge, which was released back in 2014, before switching to the ...

We know wearables are hard to make, and the news that the Fitbit Ionic has been recalled, five years after it first went on sale, is proof of that. But it’s not the first – and probably won’t be the ...

Google has announced it will remove third-party apps and watch faces from the Fitbit app gallery in the EU. EU users will be able to continue downloading and installing third-party apps until June ...

Fitbit has announced a voluntary recall of its Ionic Smartwatch amid more than 170 reports that the battery has overheated, causing more than 100 reports of burn injuries. Fitbit, a U.S. fitness ...

The European Union’s laws seem to be closing in further, as Google announces that they’ll be removing third-party apps and watch faces from Fitbit devices, but only in the EU. Editorial Note: Talk ...