Breaking news! I just spoke with a manager at Fitbit (now owned by Google, in case you didn’t know…), and they verified that Fitbit trackers no longer send “battery-low” notifications to email, nor text, nor as a push notification from the Fitbit app on the phone.

It is flabbergasting to me that they would remove such an important feature. It leads to my Fitbit Charge 6 (bought in June ’25) going dead unless I happen to look at the Fitbit itself or open its app on my phone. My former three Fitbit trackers would send an email and push notification for this, so it’s a true feature regression.

Their agent could give me no reason behind this, so I’ll be looking for an alternative tracker going forward, that works with Android phones.

Another feature Fitbit mysteriously dropped was the counting of stairway flights, which I had found very useful for my 4-level house. Technology marches backwards, sometimes.