Fitbit, once again, was struck by a server outage
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Fitbit's having issues with its servers again. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
It appeared that Fitbit suffered from another server outage that affected syncing data from devices.
The news was first spotted by 9to5Google, and Downdetector shows a spike in outage reports starting at about 11AM ET. Some users also posted on Reddit and social media that they experienced issues. I tried syncing my Fitbit Charge 6, and while I was able to pull up the app and initiate a manual sync, the data did not show up within the app itself. Another colleague tried to download the app and was unable to log in. And unlike the last outage - which happened just a month ago - this may not have to do with whether you've migrated your Fitbit data over to a Google account. Another colleague who hasn't migrated their data confirmed that...