Apr 15, 2020 Smartwatch and fitness tracker hybrid: Fitbit Versa 2 ($170 at Fitbit) How to download the Fitbit Connect app for Mac. Fitbit has an app known as Fitbit Connect, which allows you pair and sync your Fitbit tracker with your Mac using the handy wireless USB dongle. First, download the free Fitbit Connect app. Download now; Click Download for Mac. This wikiHow teaches you how to sync your Fitbit on PC or Mac. To sync your Fitbit to PC or Mac, you need to download the Fitbit Connect app. If you have it synced to your Mobile phone, you may need to turn off Bluetooth on your mobile device in order to sync your Fitbit tracker to your PC or Mac. Keep other Fitbit trackers away from your.
Do you want to install the Fitbit Connect App For Mac? You don’t need to use and set up your Fitbit on iPhone. While having a Mac at work, home, or school, you can simply set up, use or manage your Fitbit fitness tracker on macOS as well. However, both a Fitbit Connect app and a web portal, that’ll help you to use or set up right from your Mac!
How to download or install the Fitbit Connect app for Mac
Fitbit has an app called Fitbit Connect. However, it enables you to pair and syncs your Fitbit tracker using Mac using the handy wireless USB dongle.
Step 1:
Initially, install the free Fitbit Connect app.
Step 2:
Tap Download for Mac.
Step 3:
Head over to a new Finder window.
Step 4:
Tap Downloads in the menu.
Step 5:
Double-tap the Fitbit disk image file. Its name will begin with “FibtitConnect_Mac…”
Step 6:
Double-tap the Fitbit installer file. It seems like a cardboard box and is known as “Install Fitbit Connect.pkg.”
Step 7:
Tap Continue on the page introduction to installing wizard.
Step 8:
Tap Continue on the software license agreement.
Step 9:
Tap Agree to agree to the terms and conditions.
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Step 10:
Then tap Continue when you have selected the drive on which to save the Fitbit Connect app.
Step 11:
Tap Install.
Step 12:
Input your password and tap Install Software.
However, you’ve successfully got the Fitbit Connect app. You can just open it as you would any other apps – either from the dock or from the Finder. Now can easily access your Dashboard, a member in challenges, and much more, all from your Mac!
Pair the latest Fitbit tracker via Mac
Now you’ve got the Fitbit Connect app installed, you want to pair your Fitbit via Mac. It is done using the wireless key that came in your Fitbit’s box. Then remember to plug it into an available USB port before initiating the setup process. It seems like a thumb drive.
Follow the steps carefully:
Step 1:
Tap to use or set up a New Fitbit Device.
Step 2:
Tap New to Fitbit.
Step 3:
Input your email address and make a password.
Step 4:
Tap the box located next to “I agree to the Fitbit Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.”
Step 5:
Tap Sign Up.
Step 6:
Input your info on the “Tell us about yourself” page.
Step 7:
Tap Sign Up.
Step 8:
Tap the Fitbit tracker that you’re setting up.
Step 9:
Tap Next via information screens.
Step 10:
Then perform the action requested.
- Input the code that seems on your Fitbit’s display.
- Click your Flex until you feel it vibrate.
Step 11:
Tap Next or I felt it buzz, depending on your Fitbit version.
Step 12:
Tap Next on the connection confirmation screen.
Step 13:
Tap Go to Dashboard.
That’s all! However, your Fitbit tracker is also paired with Mac. Now you can be signed up for a Fitbit account as well. 2 birds are dead, and you’ve only tossed one stone.
Remember that you want that dongle plugged in all the time if you like your tracker to sync via Mac continually.
Whenever, your Mac remains connected to the WiFi, your Fitbit tracker wirelessly sync when you’re 20 feet of it. Then you log in to your Fitbit Connect app and view your up-to-date progress without connecting any cables or tapping the Sync button.
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UPDATE: They have since updated the Fitbit Connect app to work with El Capitan. So, things actually work now. Below is the original message.
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As several posts have indicated, and my step tracker that’s on the right of my site show (though it’s been kind of lacking in data for the reason outlined below), I’m a Fitbit user and fan. But, since late September of 2015, since the introduction of Mac OS X 10.11, the Fitbit connect app, which handles syncing of the Fitbit via their dongle, this hasn’t worked reliably. Any reboot results in the dongle being lost by the software. Unplugging and re-plugging sometimes works, but sometimes results in the computer slowing to a crawl until you unplug again. Any either way, rebooting breaks things again.
So, there’s a significant thread on the Fitbit site with regards to this issue, and several other smaller threads. All resulting in similar “we’re working on it” answers until recently. I finally got sick of the answers, and decided to both tweet and email the CEO of Fitbit, hoping that like Apple’s CEOs, this may actually get some attention on the issue, and it seemingly did (perhaps coincidental). Here is that email.
Hello Mr. Park,
My name is xxxxx, and I’ve been a long time Fitbit user. I have a One, my wife has a One, and my 2 year old son has a Zip that we clip to his pants occasionally so we can see just how many steps he gets. We also have an Aria that works great.
Anyway, we’re also Mac users. And as you may or may not know, since Apple released 10.11, El Capitan, the Fitbit Connect app has not worked reliably. Anytime you reboot the computer, it can’t find the dongle, and often reseating the dongle is hit or miss as to whether it will then see it, and work to sync. You can see the many users having this issue here:
https://community.fitbit.com/t5/iOS-App/El-Capitan-Doesn-t-Recognize-Dongle/td-p/822020
And here: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/One/OS-X-El-Capitan/td-p/1004254
And here: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/One/OS-X-El-Capitan/td-p/1004254
And obviously, that’s only the users that have taken the time to contribute to that thread. Fitbit support has been less than helpful with regards to this issue for months. Response is always, “we’re working on it”. But after over half a year, it’s hard to remain enthusiastic. So much so that Fitbit’s wiki page now echoes this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitbit#Fitbit_Connect_for_Mac
I obviously don’t expect you to fix this yourself, but my hope is that you can help encourage your software engineers to put some effort into resolving this, or engage Apple to help resolve. Or heck, at least have support actually give an answer other than “we’re working on it”. Offer a beta of the software for us to test, something. And maybe I’m wrong, and this is all some “cold war” with Apple in response to the Apple Watch. I really don’t know, but I don’t see you guys dropping support for Windows because of the Band.
Anyway, thank you very much for your time, and I hope you have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. And please, let me know if you have any questions…
I have not received a response (over Twitter, normal Fitbit support responded with their usual non-answer). I don’t expect a response. CEOs are busy people, and not all of them can be Steve Jobs. But even Tim Cook reads all his email, and just hands it off to someone else to respond to (which is more than fine). Sadly, for whatever reason, my post indicating that I had emailed their CEO was removed for Community Guideline violation (I’m unsure why, but that’s their right, I won’t argue).
My biggest issue now is that they’re saying their software engineers are taking a second look. What?! How did they take a “first look” and decide it not working was acceptable? Even if for some reason this is an Apple issue, you then engage Apple to help resolve… That’s what you’re paying for when you have a Dev license. And whether Apple likes it or not, there are a LOT of Mac Fitbit users. So much so that they have edited the Fitbit Wikipedia page to indicate lack of Mac OS X support.
Anyway, I’m hoping this gets resolved, finally in the next month or two, but at this point, I’m pretty sure most users have resigned to the fact it’s broken and will look elsewhere when it comes time to replacing their Fitbit. :/ Sadly, while I posted on the Fitbit forums that I had emailed him, they have since removed that post as a violation of their forum TOS. I’m fine with that (it’s their forum), but it is odd. Their email support has been terrible, still. They tried to say that 10.11 was beta software. *sigh*
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I will update if I hear anything…