In the European Union, Fitbit smartwatches will soon lose support for third-party apps as well as watch faces. Let’s take a closer look at this report.
Watch faces are the dials of watches that come in a vast range of colors as well as marker combinations, so when the users want to try out some more new and upgraded watch faces, they can go through third-party apps, but now Google has announced that, within a few months, third-party apps and watch faces will be removed from all Fitbit smartwatches used in the European Union.
It is being reported by a support page update in which Google unveiled the official strategy to drop down all third-party applications and clock faces even from existing Fitbit devices available in the EU. It is reported that this new plan will come into existence in June 2024.
Here’s the confusion, since it is not clear yet whether the users can use the already-installed third-party apps and watch faces on their devices or not.
The list of Fitbit smartwatches that will lose third-party applications and watch faces in June 2024:
- Fitbit Sense 2
- Fitbit Versa 4
- Fitbit Sense
- FitBit Versa 3
- Fitbit Versa 2
- Fitbit Versa Lite
- Fitbit Versa
- Fitbit Ionic
Google stated that the Fitbit and Google apps will continue to be available, but the company clarified that Google applications are mostly exclusive to the Fitbit Sense 2 and Versa 4 wearables.
For now, the reason behind this decision is not clear, but it may be because of a careful assessment of the impact of the new European regulatory requirements or maybe because of the Digital Markets Act (DAM), which recently entered force in the EU.
