A smartwatch is a small pile of sensors strapped to your wrist. Heart rate, blood oxygen, movement, skin temperature: it reads all of it constantly. None of that data matters if the apps meant to interpret it can’t access it.
That’s the wall a group of Pixel Watch owners hit this week. A thread on r/PixelWatch, started over the weekend, describes a frustrating Fitbit sensor permission bug on the screen that displays the Fitbit logo and demands access to device sensors. Tap through it, and you end up back where you began. Users say every permission it asks for is already
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