‘It lasts less than a day’ – Fitbit users furious over update that crushes battery life

• Fitbit recently issued a vital software update to stop batteries overheating
• The Versa 3 and Fitbit Sense were reportedly a risk to their users
• The new update is cutting battery life from five or six days down to less than one.

Just a few weeks after Fitbit issued a battery overheating update for two of its most popular smartwatches, users of the Fitbit Sense and Fitbit Versa 3, two of the best Fitbits on the market, are complaining that the fix is causing catastrophic reductions in battery life.

Google said the overheating problem could pose a risk to users and required an immediate firmware update. The company confirmed that the update would reduce the risk of overheating, but at the cost of some reduction in battery life, and even offered customers $50 if they were affected, however, that compensation figure appears to pale in comparison to just how much battery life users are actually losing now the update is complete.

Fitbit’s battery life crisis goes from bad to worse

“Before doing the update my battery would last about 5 -6 days (depending on how much exercise I did),” one user told the Fitbit community forums, “Now since doing the update it lasts less than a day. That’s with everything turned off too (eg. Notifications, snore detection, vibrations, etc).”