How to connect your Fitbit app to your Apple Watch

Tech companies will usually do their best to keep customers from using their gear with a competing companys software. Lets face it, youre probably not going to be using iMessage on an Android phone anytime soon. But sometimes, you can get around these limitations. If you recently acquired an Apple Watch but would like to

Tech companies will usually do their best to keep customers from using their gear with a competing company’s software. Let’s face it, you’re probably not going to be using iMessage on an Android phone anytime soon. But sometimes, you can get around these limitations. If you recently acquired an Apple Watch but would like to use it with the Fitbit app, there is a way you can do that, even though the two companies’ ecosystems don’t acknowledge either other’s existence. It’s inconvenient and complicated, but it does work.

In this case, the Strava app acts as a friendly intermediary. Everybody talks to Strava and Strava returns the favor. So if you want to get your Apple data into Fitbit, it needs to run through Strava. Here’s how to proceed.

Now you can set up your Fitbit app so it will connect to your Apple Watch through Strava.

Strava is now a conduit between your Apple Watch and Fitbit, and data should be flowing in both directions.

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