How exercise I utilize GPS on my Fitbit device?

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

Note: To apply connected or telephone GPS, make sure that Let Location Access is prepare to Always or All the time for the Fitbit app on your phone.

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Device Name GPS Type

Fitbit Accuse 4
Fitbit Charge v

Dynamic GPS*
Congenital-in GPS
Phone (continued) GPS

Fitbit Ionic
Fitbit Sense
Fitbit Versa 3

 Congenital-in GPS

Fitbit Blaze
Fitbit Accuse 2
Fitbit Charge three
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 information instead of the congenital-in GPS sensors on your device. This option preserves battery life on your device. For more information about your device'southward battery life, see the related help article.

**Devices with phone (connected) GPS apply the GPS sensors on your phone to capture GPS data. Keep your phone nigh your device during your workout.

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

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Best practices

  • Accuse your device to at least 80%, every bit congenital-in GPS can cause the battery to bleed more speedily.
  • Go outside; then connect to GPS and start your do. To make certain the GPS connexion is stable, you can wait up to 30 seconds later y'all see "Connected" on your device'due south screen to tap the play icon and begin moving.
  • Sync your device regularly with the Fitbit app (at least once every 24 hours) to reduce the time it takes for the built-in GPS sensors to connect to GPS satellites. Make certain the location permission for the Fitbit app on your telephone is always immune. For instructions, run across the Apple help article or the Google (Android) help article.
  • Check that GPS is turned on for the exercise. Note that simply exercises where you lot cover concrete distance use GPS. For more than information, run across How practice I turn on GPS for an practice 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 information, see How do I wear my Fitbit device?
  • Try loosening the band 1 notch.
  • Make sure your device doesn't impact your wrist bone.
  • Await until GPS is connected to start the exercise.
  • Annotation that if y'all're using GPS for the first fourth dimension in an area, connecting to GPS satellites might take several minutes. Heavily wooded areas and tall buildings tin can increment the time it takes to connect to GPS satellites.
  • If GPS didn't connect the first time, wait 5 minutes before you start the exercise again.
  • (Charge iv and Accuse 5) If your tracker doesn't connect to GPS satellites, you can finish the exercise, alter the GPS manner to Telephone GPS, and start the exercise once more. To modify the GPS mode, run across How practice I manage the GPS settings on my Fitbit device?
  • To reduce the time it takes for your device to connect to GPS satellites, hold your arm parallel to your body near your head and at least 2 inches away from you when you connect to GPS and showtime an exercise.
    Person with a tracker on his wrist, holding the tracker in front of his chest

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Requirements

  • Go exterior; and then connect to GPS and start your do.
  • Make sure that your device can sync with the Fitbit app. For more information, see How practise Fitbit devices sync their data?
  • Confirm that the Fitbit app can use your phone's GPS sensors:

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    1. Ostend that the Fitbit app can employ your location (Permit Location Admission is ready to Always). For instructions, see the Apple assistance article.
    2. Confirm that Background App Refresh is turned on for the Fitbit app. For instructions, see the Apple tree help article.

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    1. Confirm that the Fitbit app can use your location:
      1. Allow Location Access is set to All the Time and Location. For instructions, see the Google (Android) aid article.
      2. Precise Location is turned on.
    2. Confirm that Groundwork App Refresh is turned on for the Fitbit app. For instructions, see the Google (Android) help article.
  • Bank check that GPS is turned on for the exercise. Notation that only exercises where you cover concrete altitude utilise GPS. For more than information, see How do I plough on GPS for an exercise on my Fitbit device?
  • Brand sure that your phone is within 30 feet of your device.
  • Annotation that heavily wooded areas and alpine buildings can increase the fourth dimension it takes to connect to GPS satellites.

Troubleshooting steps

See if GPS connects subsequently each step.

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

ClosedHow practice I turn on GPS for an practise on my Fitbit device?

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  1. In the Fitbit app, open Exercise Shortcuts. For more information, see How do I rail my workouts with my Fitbit device?
  2. Tap the exercise y'all want to track, and make sure Continued GPS is turned on.

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

  1. On Blaze, tap the Practise screen, and find the exercise yous want to track.
  2. Tap the gear icon, and brand certain Utilise Phone GPS is on.

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  1. Open up the Do app and swipe to find the exercise yous want to track.
  2. Swipe up, and make sure GPS is On.
  3. Printing the push to render to the activeness screen.

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  1. Swipe right or left to the Do app , then swipe up to find an practice.
  2. Tap to cull an practise, then swipe upward through the practise settings.
  3. Tap GPS to turn information technology on.
  4. Swipe downwards to render to the exercise screen.

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

  1. Get outside, so open up the Practice app on your device and tap an exercise. Only activities where you comprehend physical distance offer GPS tracking.
  2. Expect a few moments for GPS to connect.
  3. Tap the play icon to starting time the exercise. If the GPS betoken disconnects, your phone or Fitbit device continues to search for a signal.

Note: If you previously turned off GPS for an do, plough it dorsum on before you start the activity.

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

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On your tracker, open up the Settings app > GPS Settings > tap to update a setting. Annotation that GLONASS and Low Power Manner are for Born GPS only.

Setting How It Works
GPS Mode
  • Dynamic: Charge four sets the GPS type at the outset of the workout. If you accept your phone with you lot, Charge 4 uses your phone's GPS sensors to map your road. If your phone is nearby merely not moving when y'all outset the exercise, Accuse 4 uses built-in GPS.
  • Built-in GPS: Charge 4 uses congenital-in GPS sensors to rail your route, stride, altitude, and other stats. This option can reduce battery life on your tracker.
  • Phone GPS: Accuse four uses your telephone's GPS sensors to track your road, step, distance, and other stats. This choice can help preserve battery life on your Fitbit device.

Note: If the GPS signal is lost during the practise, Accuse 4 doesn't switch to a different GPS type.
GLONASS

For exercises with built-in GPS, this setting can shorten the time 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 Power Way

For exercises with built-in GPS that last more than an 60 minutes, this setting tin can preserve battery life on Accuse 4. To enhance built-in GPS performance, plow off the Depression Power Mode option.

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

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

Setting How It Works
GPS Fashion
  • Dynamic: Your tracker sets the GPS type at the start of the workout. If you take your phone with y'all, your tracker uses your telephone's GPS sensors to map your route. If your phone is nearby but non moving when you start the exercise, your tracker uses built-in GPS.
  • Built-in GPS: Your tracker uses born GPS sensors to track your route, pace, distance, and other stats. This option can reduce battery life on your tracker.
  • Phone GPS: Your tracker uses your phone'southward GPS sensors to rail your route, stride, distance, and other stats. This pick tin can help preserve battery life on your Fitbit device.

Note: If the GPS bespeak is lost during the practice, Charge five doesn't switch to a different GPS type.

ClosedHow do I see GPS data captured by my Fitbit device?

Later on you lot stop your workout, open the Fitbit app and tap the Exercise tile to see a conditioning intensity map that shows your road, distance, middle-charge per unit zones, and pace. Tap the map to see detailed stats well-nigh your conditioning.

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

Note: If the GPS signal is lost during the exercise, 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 accept GPS, use the Fitbit app on your phone to capture your route, altitude, footstep, and more than.

ClosediPhones

  1. Confirm that the Fitbit app tin use your telephone'due south GPS sensors:
    1. Confirm that the Fitbit app can use your location (Allow Location Admission is set to Always). For instructions, see the Apple help commodity.
    2. Ostend that Background App Refresh is turned on for the Fitbit app. For instructions, see the Apple help article.
  2. Tap the Today tab and tap the greyness + icon on the Exercise tile.
  3. Tap Track at the pinnacle.
  4. Choose an activeness: run, walk, or hike.
  5. To hear cues during your activity, tap Cues and set the type, frequency, and volume.
  6. Tap Outset. During the activity, swipe left to run into a GPS map.
  7. When you're done, tap Pause, and so tap and hold Finish.
  8. Review your conditioning summary.

ClosedAndroid phones

  1. Confirm that the Fitbit app can use your phone's GPS sensors:
    1. Ostend that the Fitbit app can use your location (Allow Location Access is fix to All the Time). For instructions, run into the Google (Android) help article.
    2. Confirm that Background App Refresh is turned on for the Fitbit app. Open the Settings app on your telephone. For instructions, see the Google (Android) help article.
  2. Tap the Today tab then tap the greyness + icon on the Exercise tile.
  3. Tap the stopwatch icon in the height right then Tracking at the top.
  4. Choose an activity: run, walk, or hike.
  5. To hear cues during your action, tap Cues and set the type, frequency, and volume.
  6. Tap Beginning. During the activity, swipe left to see a GPS map.
  7. When yous're done, tap Interruption, then tap and hold Finish.
  8. Review your conditioning summary.

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