Fitbit failed to promptly report a burn hazard with its Ionic smartwatches and will pay $12.25m in penalties. U.S. Consumer ...

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 ...

But Fitbit did not voluntarily recall the Ionic smart watch until March 2, 2022. By then, the commission said, Fitbit had received at least 174 reports globally of the lithium-ion battery’s ...

Fitbit will pay a civil penalty of $12.25 million after it "knowingly failed to immediately report" a defect in its Ionic smartwatches that caused dozens of people to sustain burn injuries ...

The deal finds the Google-owned fitness company paying a $12.25 million penalty for the issues surrounding its Ionic smartwatch. The issue dates back to 2018, continuing on into 2020. Fitbit ...

The commission and Fitbit announced a recall of the Ionic smartwatches in March of 2022, stating that there were at least 115 reports of the battery in the watch overheating with 78 reports of ...

The deal is the first for Fitbit since launching the Ionic last month – the company ... will go some way to making up ground on the Apple Watch which at this point has over two years ...

There were 78 reports of burn injuries in the U.S., starting in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The Fitbit watch company has been fined ...

Fitbit LLC, which is now owned by Google, has been fined $12.25 million to settle claims by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the federal agency said in a news release on Thursday, Jan. 23. The ...

The Ionic smartwatches ... Despite having information that supported that the watch had a defect, Fitbit failed to report it immediately to the CPSC, the agency said. Fitbit issued a software ...

Fitbit’s early smartwatches lacked some “smart” elements like messaging, but in 2018, the company addressed this by rolling out messaging capabilities to the original Versa and Ionic.

Google-owned Fitbit will pay a $12.25 million fine to settle charges brought by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) after its Ionic smartwatches caused second- and third-degree burns.