Fitbit has issued a voluntary recall for Ionic smartwatches that it manufactured and sold from 2017 through 2020. In its announcement, it explained that the model’s lithium-ion battery can overheat and pose a burn hazard in “very limited instances.” According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Fitbit received at least 174 reports of the watch’s battery overheating. It received 78 reports of burn injuries that include two second-degree and four third-degree burns in the US, as well as 40 reports of burn injuries from other regions.
The company, which stopped selling the product in 2020 before being acquired by Google, sold around a million Ionic smartwatches in the US and 693,000 internationally. While 118 reports of burn injuries might be a small percentage of the total number of units sold, Fitbit said it’s taking “this action out of an abundance of caution.”
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