Fitbit received numerous reports of the lithium-ion batteries in the watches overheating during 2018, 2019 and continuing into 2020, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

More than two years after recalling about 1.7 million Ionic smartwatches sold globally, Google-owned Fitbit will pay a $12.2 million penalty for failing to alert consumers that the products can ...

Fitbit has settled with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) over a long-standing defect that caused some wearers to sustain burns. The deal finds the Google-owned fitness company ...

Fitbit has been fined in $12.25 million as part of a settlement of a long-standing case with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). This doesn't relate to a watch you can still buy ...

Meanwhile, a lawsuit filed in 2022 alleges that Fitbit’s problem wasn’t limited to the Ionic. The plaintiffs claimed the issue also impacted the Versa Lite and a Versa 2. The lawsuit also ...

Why Google’s $2.1 billion Fitbit purchase won’t fix its WearOS woes By Shubham Agarwal Published April 25, 2023 Save Google’s going all-in for its quest to build an Apple Watch alternative ...

Fitbit has settled with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) over a long-standing defect that caused some wearers to sustain burns. The deal finds the Google-owned fitness company ...

Fitbit received numerous reports of the lithium-ion batteries in the watches overheating during 2018, 2019 and continuing into 2020, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

More than two years after recalling about 1.7 million Ionic smartwatches sold globally, Google-owned Fitbit will pay a $12.2 million penalty for failing to alert consumers that the products can ...

Fitbit failed to report overheating incidents involving its Ionic watches in which customers suffered serious burns, safety regulator said. Google's Fitbit fined $12.2 million after customers ...