{"id":258359,"date":"2026-05-28T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/early-fitbit-air-buyers-are-discovering-a-major-band-fit-issue\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:30:09","slug":"early-fitbit-air-buyers-are-discovering-a-major-band-fit-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/early-fitbit-air-buyers-are-discovering-a-major-band-fit-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Fitbit Air buyers are discovering a major band fit issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/fitbit-air-band-does-not-fit-all\/\">Early Fitbit Air buyers are discovering a major band fit issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/fitbit-air-band-does-not-fit-all\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/fitbit-air-band-does-not-fit-all\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 15:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<p>First highlighted by Reddit user enchantress11 on the r\/fitbit subreddit, it clearly looks like Google&#8217;s bands will be a little to big for those with thin wrists (via Android Authority).<\/p>\n<p>From the images shared, it looks like the user tried out the standard Performance Loop Band and the more-expensive Elevated Modern Band.<\/p>\n<p>Both bands look like they don&#8217;t sit snugly against the user&#8217;s skin, which is a prerequisite for the device and its sensors to be able to measure metrics accurately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As someone with comically small wrists, I thank you for your service,&#8221; wrote one user, while a different one suggested that the OP could try &#8220;wearing it as a bicep band.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some suggested the OP try using the Fitbit Air as an ankle band. &#8220;Hmm will consider. Need to get enough data from the wrist before comparing to bicep\/ankle placement,&#8221; wrote the OP.<\/p>\n<p>The placement makes sense on paper. Ankles and biceps are, in most cases, larger than our wrists. That&#8217;s why a band that&#8217;s loose on the wrist will fit better on the ankles and biceps. However, it is unlikely that the Fitbit Air&#8217;s sensors are calibrated for those body parts, making the move useless.<\/p>\n<p>If you bought the Fitbit Air and are facing the same issue, moving the band slightly above the wrist, around your forearm, should work as intended. Alternatively, investing in a third-party alternative from Amazon would be a better choice.<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/fitbit-air-band-does-not-fit-all\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Fitbit Air buyers are discovering a major band fit issue https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/fitbit-air-band-does-not-fit-all\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-28&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fitbit-air.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-258359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258362,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258359\/revisions\/258362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}