How practise I apply GPS on my Fitbit device?

Drag your workouts by capturing GPS data with certain Fitbit devices. If your device doesn't have GPS, use the Fitbit app to record GPS data.

Note: To employ connected or phone GPS, brand sure that Allow Location Access is set up to Always or All the fourth dimension for the Fitbit app on your telephone.

ClosedDoes my Fitbit device have GPS?

Device Name GPS Type

Fitbit Charge 4
Fitbit Charge 5

Dynamic GPS*
Built-in GPS
Telephone (connected) GPS

Fitbit Ionic
Fitbit Sense
Fitbit Versa 3

 Built-in GPS

Fitbit Blaze
Fitbit Accuse 2
Fitbit Accuse 3
Fitbit Inspire Hr
Fitbit Inspire 2
Fitbit Luxe
Fitbit Versa
Fitbit Versa 2
Fitbit Versa LE

 Telephone (connected) GPS**

*If your phone is nearby, these devices use the GPS sensors on your phone to capture GPS data instead of the born GPS sensors on your device. This option preserves battery life on your device. For more information near your device'south bombardment life, see the related aid article.

**Devices with phone (continued) GPS use the GPS sensors on your phone to capture GPS information. Keep your phone near your device during your conditioning.

ClosedHow do I get my Fitbit device to connect to GPS?

ClosedBuilt-in GPS

All-time practices

  • Charge your device to at least eighty%, as congenital-in GPS can cause the battery to drain more quickly.
  • Go outside; then connect to GPS and showtime your exercise. To make certain the GPS connection is stable, you lot can wait upwards to 30 seconds after y'all see "Continued" on your device'south screen to tap the play icon and begin moving.
  • Sync your device regularly with the Fitbit app (at to the lowest degree once every 24 hours) to reduce the time it takes for the built-in GPS sensors to connect to GPS satellites. Make sure the location permission for the Fitbit app on your phone is always allowed. For instructions, run across the Apple tree assistance commodity or the Google (Android) help article.
  • Check that GPS is turned on for the exercise. Note that only exercises where you cover physical distance utilize GPS. For more data, see How exercise I turn on GPS for an exercise on my Fitbit device?

Troubleshooting tips

If your device can't connect to GPS satellites, or if gaps appear in the map of your route, try these tips:

  • Follow the recommendations for wearing your device for exercise. For more than information, come across How practise I wear my Fitbit device?
  • Try loosening the ring ane notch.
  • Make sure your device doesn't touch your wrist bone.
  • Wait until GPS is connected to start the exercise.
  • Note that if y'all're using GPS for the showtime time in an area, connecting to GPS satellites might take several minutes. Heavily wooded areas and tall buildings can increment the time it takes to connect to GPS satellites.
  • If GPS didn't connect the offset time, look 5 minutes before you start the exercise again.
  • (Accuse four and Charge 5) If your tracker doesn't connect to GPS satellites, you tin end the exercise, change the GPS mode to Phone GPS, and start the exercise again. To modify the GPS manner, see How do I manage the GPS settings on my Fitbit device?
  • To reduce the time it takes for your device to connect to GPS satellites, agree your arm parallel to your body near your head and at least two inches away from you when you connect to GPS and start an practise.
    Person with a tracker on his wrist, holding the tracker in front of his chest

ClosedPhone (connected) GPS

Requirements

  • Become outside; then connect to GPS and commencement your practise.
  • Make certain that your device tin sync with the Fitbit app. For more information, run across How do Fitbit devices sync their information?
  • Confirm that the Fitbit app tin can use your telephone'southward GPS sensors:

    ClosediPhones

    1. Confirm that the Fitbit app can use your location (Permit Location Access is set to E'er). For instructions, see the Apple help article.
    2. Ostend that Background App Refresh is turned on for the Fitbit app. For instructions, run across the Apple help commodity.

    ClosedAndroid phones

    1. Ostend that the Fitbit app can use your location:
      1. Allow Location Admission is set to All the Time and Location. For instructions, run across the Google (Android) assist article.
      2. Precise Location is turned on.
    2. Confirm that Background App Refresh is turned on for the Fitbit app. For instructions, see the Google (Android) assist article.
  • Cheque that GPS is turned on for the exercise. Notation that simply exercises where you cover physical distance use GPS. For more than information, see How do I turn on GPS for an exercise on my Fitbit device?
  • Brand certain that your phone is within 30 feet of your device.
  • Note that heavily wooded areas and tall buildings tin increment the time information technology takes to connect to GPS satellites.

Troubleshooting steps

Run into if GPS connects later each footstep.

  1. Force quit, and reopen the Fitbit app to refresh the connexion with your device. For instructions, see the Apple tree help article or the Google (Android) aid article.
  2. On your phone, get to Settings then Bluetooth and turn Bluetooth off and back on.
  3. Restart your phone.

ClosedHow do I turn on GPS for an exercise on my Fitbit device?

ClosedBlaze

  1. In the Fitbit app, open Practice Shortcuts. For more than information, run into How do I rails my workouts with my Fitbit device?
  2. Tap the practice you want to track, and make sure Connected GPS is turned on.

If GPS doesn't connect, confirm GPS is enabled on your device:

  1. On Blaze, tap the Exercise screen, and find the exercise you want to track.
  2. Tap the gear icon, and brand sure Employ Phone GPS is on.

ClosedCharge 3 and Charge 4

  1. Open the Exercise app and swipe to find the exercise you want to track.
  2. Swipe upwardly, and make sure GPS is On.
  3. Press the button to render to the activity screen.

ClosedCharge 5 and Luxe

  1. Swipe right or left to the Exercise app , so swipe upwards to find an practice.
  2. Tap to choose an practice, then swipe up through the practise settings.
  3. Tap GPS to turn information technology on.
  4. Swipe downward to return to the exercise screen.

ClosedHow do I start an exercise with GPS on my Fitbit device?

  1. Go outside, and then open the Exercise app on your device and tap an exercise. Only activities where you lot encompass physical distance offering GPS tracking.
  2. Wait a few moments for GPS to connect.
  3. Tap the play icon to start the do. If the GPS point disconnects, your phone or Fitbit device continues to search for a signal.

Notation: If you previously turned off GPS for an exercise, turn it back on before you starting time the activeness.

ClosedHow practise I manage the GPS settings on my Fitbit device?

ClosedCharge 4

On your tracker, open the Settings app > GPS Settings > tap to update a setting. Note that GLONASS and Low Power Style are for Built-in GPS but.

Setting How Information technology Works
GPS Mode
  • Dynamic: Charge 4 sets the GPS type at the start of the workout. If yous take your phone with you, Charge 4 uses your phone's GPS sensors to map your road. If your telephone is nearby but non moving when you start the exercise, Charge 4 uses congenital-in GPS.
  • Congenital-in GPS: Charge 4 uses built-in GPS sensors to track your route, pace, distance, and other stats. This choice can reduce bombardment life on your tracker.
  • Phone GPS: Charge four uses your phone'south GPS sensors to track your route, step, distance, and other stats. This option tin help preserve battery life on your Fitbit device.

Notation: If the GPS bespeak is lost during the exercise, Charge 4 doesn't switch to a dissimilar GPS type.
GLONASS

For exercises with born GPS, this setting can shorten the fourth dimension it takes for Charge 4 to find a GPS signal and enhance GPS performance.

Note: Turning on this option can reduce bombardment life on your tracker.
Low Ability Mode

For exercises with congenital-in GPS that terminal more than than an hour, this setting can preserve battery life on Charge 4. To enhance built-in GPS performance, plow off the Depression Power Mode option.

Note: Turning off this option tin reduce bombardment life on your tracker.

ClosedAccuse 5

Swipe down from the clock screen and tap the Settings app to open it, then tap GPS then GPS.

Setting How It Works
GPS Way
  • Dynamic: Your tracker sets the GPS blazon at the start of the workout. If you take your phone with you, your tracker uses your phone's GPS sensors to map your road. If your phone is nearby but not moving when you beginning the exercise, your tracker uses built-in GPS.
  • Built-in GPS: Your tracker uses built-in GPS sensors to rails your route, footstep, distance, and other stats. This choice can reduce battery life on your tracker.
  • Telephone GPS: Your tracker uses your telephone's GPS sensors to track your route, pace, distance, and other stats. This choice can aid preserve battery life on your Fitbit device.

Note: If the GPS signal is lost during the do, Charge 5 doesn't switch to a different GPS blazon.

ClosedHow do I come across GPS data captured past my Fitbit device?

Later you stop your workout, open the Fitbit app and tap the Practise tile to see a conditioning intensity map that shows your route, distance, heart-charge per unit zones, and step. Tap the map to run across detailed stats about your workout.

GPS-tracked workout in the Fitbit app, where the color of the route corresponds to the user's heart rate intensity

Annotation: If the GPS signal is lost during the do, a map might not appear in the Fitbit app.

ClosedHow do I use the Fitbit app to capture GPS data?

If your Fitbit device doesn't take GPS, use the Fitbit app on your phone to capture your route, distance, footstep, and more than.

ClosediPhones

  1. Confirm that the Fitbit app can use your phone's GPS sensors:
    1. Confirm that the Fitbit app can use your location (Permit Location Access is set to Always). For instructions, see the Apple help article.
    2. Confirm that Background App Refresh is turned on for the Fitbit app. For instructions, run into the Apple help article.
  2. Tap the Today tab and tap the gray + icon on the Do tile.
  3. Tap Runway at the top.
  4. Choose an activity: run, walk, or hike.
  5. To hear cues during your action, tap Cues and set the blazon, frequency, and volume.
  6. Tap Start. During the activity, swipe left to run into a GPS map.
  7. When you're done, tap Suspension, then tap and agree End.
  8. Review your workout summary.

ClosedAndroid phones

  1. Confirm that the Fitbit app tin use your phone's GPS sensors:
    1. Confirm that the Fitbit app can utilise your location (Let Location Access is set to All the Time). For instructions, run across the Google (Android) aid article.
    2. Confirm that Groundwork App Refresh is turned on for the Fitbit app. Open up the Settings app on your phone. For instructions, run across the Google (Android) help article.
  2. Tap the Today tab then tap the grayness + icon on the Practise tile.
  3. Tap the stopwatch icon in the top correct then Tracking at the top.
  4. Choose an activity: run, walk, or hike.
  5. To hear cues during your action, tap Cues and gear up the type, frequency, and volume.
  6. Tap Start. During the activity, swipe left to see a GPS map.
  7. When y'all're washed, tap Break, then tap and hold Finish.
  8. Review your workout summary.

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