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 ...

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 ...

This doesn't relate to a watch you can still buy today, not without scouring eBay, but the old Fitbit Ionic. It was Fitbit’s first smartwatch, announced in 2017. The watch was recalled in 2022 ...

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 ...

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

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 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.

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 ...