Better use with older models

I bought the Fitbit Versa Lite Edition as I loved the vibrant blue Color of the band and watch, which wasn’t available in the other models and styles.

At first, it worked great, synced well with all my apps and my text messages with my iPhone. Once iOS 13 was released for my iPhone, the Fitbit started to act up, wouldn’t sync properly, won’t get any of my text messages and keeps vibrating and showing phone call alerts long after the call has ended. Had to contact both Fitbit and Apple to see why this was happening and any way to fix it and neither could help, so now that feature has been turned off completely.

Bluetooth connection with my phone for certain apps such as Spotify and even music app with my phone won’t work and the input commands for play/pause, previous song, next song will not work from the Fitbit, so I have stopped using that all together and just stick with using my phone or iPod controls.

The stats and feedback for steps, calories burned, heart rate all work fine, as expected, but the motion sensing when trying to read the time on my phone by moving my wrist up to my face doesn’t work half the time and I end up having to press the button on the side of the watch manually. I am fine to do so, but having that future is a unique part of the watch I was interested in and it only works maybe half the time or I have to reposition my watch on my wrist a certain way for it to work fluidly.

The arm band that came with the watch slowly wore out and then broke from the metal pin after wearing it for only 8 months, which, for the amount of physical use it gets, there isn’t much wear and tear as I don’t wear it to bed, and don’t have a physical job, so it was very disappointing it broke so fast. I ended having to order a new armband from a non-Fitbit company online as the Fitbit prices for new bands are really high and overpriced. I ended up getting a metal band to replace the Elastomer one that came with the watch, so I hopefully wouldn’t have this problem come up again.

I had better luck with an older model, the Charge than with the Versa Lite and also, no wifi access makes it very limited to Bluetooth with a mobile device which is fine for most daily activities, but limits a lot of the apps that are available through Fitbit for the watch and I just don’t end up using them and stick with my phone.

Would not recommend this model from Fitbit and I’ll probably move to the Apple Watch when I plan to get a new watch in the future.