{"id":467021,"date":"2026-05-26T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/467021\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:38:09","slug":"fitbit-air-early-deliveries-are-having-issues-pairing-with-android-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/467021\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitbit Air early deliveries are having issues pairing with Android phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google unveiled its first screenless fitness tracker, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/google_joins_the_screenless_fitness_tracker_arena_with_the_fitbit_air-news-72730.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fitbit Air<\/a>, earlier this month, and now reports are coming in from people who pre-ordered it that deliveries are starting. The device&#8217;s release date is tomorrow, May 26, and pre-orders were supposed to only start arriving then.<\/p>\n<p>However, some orders got to the customers sooner, and perhaps as a consequence of this being a day earlier than Google anticipated, people with Android phones are having pairing issues. The Fitbit Air needs version 5.0 of the new Google Health app, but this hasn&#8217;t reached every device yet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779759489_982_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Fitbit Air early deliveries are having issues pairing with Android phones\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Google has confirmed the app pairing issue, and the company is working on fixing it. What happens is that when you try to pair the wearable, you get a message that it requires an updated version of the Google Health app, but that may still not be available to you.<\/p>\n<p>A Google product team rep responded on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/fitbit\/comments\/1tlkb1k\/comment\/onhaeyk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Reddit<\/a> to one user who was encountering issues saying Google is doing its best to &#8220;accelerate the rollout of the updated app on Android&#8221; to accommodate early deliveries, and this will be &#8220;available shortly&#8221;. Interestingly, this is not a problem on iOS, where the update is already live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google unveiled its first screenless fitness tracker, the Fitbit Air, earlier this month, and now reports are coming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-467021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}