How to Use Fitbit Inspire 3 for Beginners (Step by Step Setup and Instruction Guide)

Welcome into the video. I am your tech guy Wayne and today I want to walk you through how to use the new Fitbit Inspire 3 for beginners. This will be a full beginners walkthrough We're gonna show you right out of the box how to set it up how to sync it with your phone We'll walk you through the setup and once it's paired with your phone We'll then walk you through how to change the watch faces how to enable notifications So you can get all your apps to ping you on your watch and some other cool tips You'll need to know in operating it. So make sure you watch all the way to the end So you don't miss any important information without further ado. Let's jump right in So you'll see that my Fitbit Inspire 3 is already on now Yours will probably not be on out of the box. So all you need to do is to connect the charging cable and Basically, you know plug one into your computer into a wall adapter and take the other end you'll be matching up the metal pieces like this and You'll want to just snap it into place just like this Once you do this, it will turn on the display and then you should see what I see on mine Okay, and I'll include a couple of links in the description as well for some great charging docks as well I don't tend to use the cable because it's a little irritating But there's some really nice charging docks you can get to have it charge on your nightstand Okay, next let's talk about how to pair it with your phone. I will be using an Android phone to do this okay, next we're gonna need to download the Fitbit app and Here I have it downloaded on my Android phone and obviously this app is available on iOS phones as well So iPhones go to the App Store. You can download it from there. It's a free app We're gonna open it up And the first thing it wants to do is have a sign in now if you already had a Fitbit account You'll simply hit sign in with Fitbit And if you've never had an account You can hit sign in with Google. It's a this part is a little tricky So I'm gonna try my best to help you navigate this If you hit sign in with Google It will check to see if you have any Google accounts that are already synced with your phone If it if you do It'll show up automatically and you can just hit continue If you don't have an account sign in with Google, then you'll need to sign in with one. I'm going to hit continue So right here it says that I don't have a Fitbit account that is linked with this Google account so I'm just gonna simply hit sign in with the existing Fitbit account and this is this to me is a little bit of a glitch in their Sign-in process because what if you don't have a Fitbit account see right now it has me on the Fitbit Sign-in page, but I don't have a Fitbit account either. So what do I do? So basically you're gonna hit forgot password You're gonna put in your email address hit send instructions then I'll need to go home and I'll need to go to my Gmail and Let's take a look at those instructions here. We received your request Reset your password Now essentially what's happening here is it's setting up an account for me Because I don't have one and this is where the process is a little tricky now I'm wouldn't be surprised if this gets updated later. But as of right now, this is the initial process To get into the account, especially if you don't already have one So I'm just gonna make a password really quickly and then we'll move forward Okay, so I set up a password and now I'm going to use that to sign in now. I'm gonna hit sign in There we go. Let's jump back over to the Fitbit app now and We can hit sign in. So now we have to sign in again using the app And then after this it's gonna link to our gmail account All right So now we're signing in and the next page should be asking us to link it with our Google account It looks like we're in which is great. Okay, so that was a little tedious So just try to follow the steps just take it one step at a time I believe Google is gonna update this because this is definitely not the best user experience in terms of the setup but nonetheless now we are in and We can enable the permissions so you tap the permissions button tap allow and This is the home screen of the Fitbit app. So Pretty easy there. So the next step is so we're in the app. We're signing to our account Now we have to link it to our Fitbit So upper left corner tap on this icon the corner and this is the icon you hit to link your device So we're gonna tap add device We're going to go down to the inspire 3 It's set up We're gonna tap where it says nearby permission tap allow Tap set up again Swipe up. I agree Now it's telling you now to connect the charger. We did that at the beginning. So we're already good to go next tap enable and It's basically gonna use your location for tracking the distance of your workouts things like that Now if you would prefer not to enable all the location permissions You can simply tap on continue without location at the bottom If you want to continue you'll tap on each one just like this and you'll tap while I'm using You'll tap background permissions. You'll go up to always or allow all the time go back and then hit done Now it's gonna start searching for the Fitbit if you notice our screen here is not flashing the text anymore It might have gone on because it's set idle for too long. So we will need to connect that charger once again Okay, so let's connect the charger once again That's gonna get our screen to pop on There we go. And as soon as the screen came on It popped up and it's already detected it so it's already asking us to put in the code And I just want to show you this is the code right here on the screen 9442 and we're going to enter that on our screen Now your code will be different. The code will be different for every Fitbit. So just as an FYI You can also see on the Fitbit here. It is showing Okay, so it did pair Successfully and now it's starting to show the time which is great and there's a few more things We'll need to enable on the screen here So we're gonna turn this on allow access for calls and contacts So that's basically when a call comes through it'll actually show on your Fitbit that someone's calling you That's what we're giving permission for we're gonna hit pair Press ok So this is a new feature that we can enable and it'll just be tracking your your heart based on your pulse I believe I'm going to hit skip for now Let's hit next Next Obviously take your time when you go through and read through those but just to get us to the main screen It's also showing us here how to change the bands and I'll have a couple of links for some Banning recommendation in the description as well Hit next So now it's giving us a quick walkthrough of just how to use it. So firmly pressing on the left and right so there's touch buttons on the left side and on the right side and when we squeeze we can use that to turn the screen on and off and I get that it's blurry over here and I'll Zoom in and show a lot more of this in the next step. So it just says an FYI let's hit next and Again I'll show all this once we get past the screen next next and we're done now the last screen here is going to ask if you want to sign up for the Fitbit premium membership and that gives you access to Some deeper insights in terms of your workouts there are You can join workouts that they offer on the platform and some additional stress management scores and tools They give you a deal if you sign up at the point of setting up your Fitbit so $9.99 a month or $79 billed annually. I'm going to hit not now for now and our Fitbit is officially synced to our phone and Now we can simply hit the back button and get back to our main screen. Okay, so we've officially linked our Fitbit To our phone, which is great and we're set up so now we can see the main screen So I'm gonna pull the phone away for now and let's focus on the Fitbit and we'll just walk through how to Find everything how to navigate the screens. This will be all about just simply how to use the device So we talked about briefly how pinching can turn the screen on or turn the screen off But obviously if the Fitbit is on your wrist and you turn your wrist that will also wake up the screen I just want to show you so if I swipe down this is the Feature where you can toggle on and off the auto wake feature and that's what I just referenced so when the Fitbit is on your wrist auto awake is basically saying if you turn your wrist the screen is going to come on and if whatever reason you don't want that to be on you can simply turn this off and If that's off now when you turn your wrist, it's not going to automatically turn the screen on So you decide if that's something you want to be on? I tend to like it on because it just makes it easier you would essentially have to turn your wrist and then you would have to You know tap the main screen or or press on the side buttons to turn it on and that sounds kind of tedious So I would say keep that auto awake on it just makes it easier Okay, so swiping down. Let's start with this This gives you a few different options. So the auto awake This is the do not disturb mode If you're going into a meeting and you don't want it to vibrate every time a notification comes through you can turn on the do Not disturb mode You have the sleep mode which will limit notifications You have the find my phone. You can use this to ping your phone right from your Fitbit So just to show you if I tap on that and hit find phone My phone is going to ping There you go, so my phone is ringing right now And simply hit cancel for it to stop. So that's a fun feature you can use your Fitbit to simply track down where your phone is and As we so as we keep going you can change which wrist your Fitbit is on. So left wrist or right wrist and You have the water lock feature. So this is when you get in the shower or you get into a pool This will disable the touchscreen so that it's not constantly going off because of the sensitivity to water so if I tap here and I turn on water lock So it says to to turn on water lock. You simply have to double tap firmly So two hard presses and now the water lock is turned on and if I want to turn it off Same thing two firm presses We'll turn it off So just like that two firm presses will also turn the water lock feature off as well Okay, and we're almost to the end of what's in this top menu here Water lock and then the settings So this is how you get to the settings menu and you can make different changes to more detailed features I'm not going to go too deep into the settings now if I want to get back to the main screen I can pinch Just like this on the left and right side That will take me back to the main screen just like that or If I want to get back to the main screen I just simply from the left side of the the display swipe in and that will also take me back to the main screen So no matter what you're doing if I'm here and I want to get back to the main screen I'm just gonna swipe from the left side into the screen and that takes you back to the home screen now if I swipe through the menu here I Have my notification panel and this is gonna let me know if I have any new Text messages. Looks like I have a text from my brother here. I can clear that you can also set it up to get notifications for Emails and other apps as well. We'll go over that in a later step of the video But that's where all your notifications will be found You can start a workout So right now I can start a walk Or I can swipe up For a run a bike ride a swim or choose some a few other workouts Now swipe left. Here is the relaxation mode and going into here and turning it on Will trigger a two-minute relaxation session or it will give you some commands to help you calm yourself. So It'll have you take a few breaths slow breaths long breaths and do some other things to help calm yourself And then here you can set up an alarm now, let's do one together so I just tapped on add and first I'm gonna set the The hour and let's make this Three o'clock and then I'm going to tap on that So I just tap the screen once I was on the hour that I wanted and let's make it 45 Okay, I want 345. I'm gonna tap the screen again Tap p.m. And now my alarm is set. So that's the process and I can toggle this alarm on and off just by tapping You can also set to repeat if you want this alarm to go off every day or if you just wanted to be a one-time alarm Now I can also come in here. Let's turn this off for now. So it doesn't randomly go off and You can again tap on that time. Let's go back So here it's showing the alarm if I want to change it I can simply tap on the alarm time and just pick a new time I'm gonna start on the left side of screen and swipe in to go back go back and now we're all done with alarms Keep swiping. I can set a timer as well by tapping add and same thing select the amount of minutes You can go up to one hour. I'm gonna make a 55 minute timer Tap there tap for seconds and then I can hit start to have that alarm going I tend to use this feature a lot for laundry. I wish it went a little bit higher one hour is not long enough, but I'll take it. It's still useful. I can pause it. I can swipe up to reset it or just swipe in to Move out of that section Keep swiping through and that's the last page now swiping left or swiping, right? It's not gonna matter It's gonna take you through to the same menu options now the next thing is if we swipe up we're gonna see a Snapshot of our day. So today's date How many steps we've done how many miles how many active minutes we've done? how many calories we've burnt and Our hourly activity, so that's all we're gonna see also our heart rate as well So that's a brief just tour of the device and how to change some of the different settings you see on screen I just thought of one thing that's really important that I want to show you So let's tap the screen here and let's swipe all the way up to the settings Go to display Now in the display settings There's a few important things that you can change that I want to point out to you The first thing is the brightness right now It's on normal brightness. If I tap this will push it up to max brightness It'll look a little bit brighter or I can take it down to dim the screen. So you have three different options there Next we have the screen timeout time So if I tap here, I can set it so the screen will stay on a bit longer right now The screen goes off pretty quickly So I want to increase the screen timeout. I'm gonna press OK Now it won't let you set a specific number of seconds or minutes There's simply some some options here. So there is a medium. There's a long You just have to simply keep tapping to toggle between those options medium long or regular Now the last thing is the always-on display, which is a really nifty feature With the always-on display you can set it. So when the screen goes off It will still show you the time and I love this feature so much now Keep in mind if you use this feature the battery is going to drain a bit faster because the screen is gonna always be working but To me it's worth it to always be able to see the time now. I want to show you right now Notice the screen just went off and the screen is completely blank Now when you turn on the always-on display, it's gonna show the time even though the screen is no longer On just like this. So let's tap the screen and I'm gonna turn this on Now by default it's set so that between 10 p.m. And 6 a.m. This feature will not be active It's only going to be active during normal Times of the day. So now that the always-on display is turned on I want to show you what it looks like So this is the screen when it's on and give it a few seconds. You'll notice the letters are not going to be as bold There we go. So this is the always-on display. So now the screen is technically off But it's still gonna display the time the cool thing with this is that when you change the clock type The always-on display is gonna change with whatever clock that you pick So now I'll always be able to see the time When this is enabled and if I tap the screen watch how the letters are gonna get bolder So now the screen is actually on so it's up to you if you want to keep this feature on I like it because I can always glance down on my wrist and see the time and I don't have to always turn my wrist To activate the screen. So it's up to you how you want to handle that Now that we've kind of finished kind of going through the menus and just how to navigate the device Let's jump back to the phone and I want to show you some important settings you'll want to turn on and tweak To finish out our setup. If you're getting value out of this video Please take a minute and bump that like button down below That support will help this video reach a lot more people and it helps to support the channel as well So thank you in advance for doing that Let's jump into the app and I want to walk you through some of the things that you'll want to enable And also show you how to change the watch face Just quickly I want to show you as well The Fitbit automatically triggered an update So if you ever see this on the screen It just means that the software is updating to stay up to date with whatever the latest features are. So no big deal there Now we're in the app and we want to do is we want to tap on the corner in the corner Upper left corner right here is showing a percentage that percentage is basically how much battery we have left on the Fitbit We're gonna tap there We're gonna tap on our Inspire 3 Let's walk through this menu and I want to show you the important things that you'll want to tweak The first thing is how to turn on your notifications and set it up so that specific apps can send you alerts Tap on notifications We're gonna tap enable notifications Tap on Fitbit You're gonna enable it tap allow allow and Now here are some other Specific things that we can tweak Now this first option here. It says mirror your phone I don't love this feature because essentially every single notification that pings your phone is Also going to vibrate on your wrist and it can be overwhelming if you're logged into a lot of apps and a lot of email accounts So I personally would not want to enable this but if you don't have a not a lot of notifications coming through your phone This might be just an easy one to turn on now if you opt not to turn that on You can go through here and set specific apps that you want to be able to ping. Let's start with text messages So this phone only has one text messaging app. So this one is easy It's gonna ping any text messages that come through Google message but if you have whatsapp installed on your phone, then you could set it so that Whatsapp messages will come through so that's where you might see some other options here Next your calendar you can select what specific calendar you want to send you calendar appointments Next you have emails and again mine by default is Gmail But again, you may have multiple apps on your phone You may have a work outlook on your phone and you can have that set to send you pings when you get new emails Now next app notifications Here is where you get very specific and you can go through and say I only want these certain apps to send me alerts I promise you you don't want to select every single app You want to limit this because if not your wrist is going to just ring all day Every time new alerts come through and it can just get annoying So I would go through here and decide what are the most important apps you want to be pinged Be careful with social media because there's just pings all throughout the day that can be irritating Google Maps is one that I'd like to have enabled Especially if you're getting directions, it can let you know when it's time for your next turn things like that Your phone so that when someone calls you it will alert TikTok is another one. I'd be careful of YouTube same thing. I'd be careful. I wouldn't turn those on I don't have a lot of apps on this phone So it's pretty easy for me to not enable a lot of these notifications but for you Be selective Amazon might be a fun one to be alerted when a package is on the way or maybe a refund Let's hit your account So go through that and decide what's more important to you now. Also you can change these later So if you want to just turn them all on and see how it goes Maybe try that first and see if it works for you If not, come back through and turn a couple off. Excuse me. Come back through and just turn a couple off okay, next your quick replies, so While you can't actually talk on the phone for quick replies Here you can have certain messages set up For example, if a call comes through and you can't answer the phone at the time you can set a specific Auto-reply for example. Yes. No sounds good. Can't talk now. We'll apply later We could tap here and say I'm in a meeting So then you can have this sent as a reply if you get a call you can't answer you can also change this to Good to go, you know, maybe change the verbiage to how you talk You can also do that too. And then if you tap on emoji You can actually set specific emojis as the responses to so you can send an emoji as an auto reply Okay. Next let's talk about how to change the clock face Because the clock face that that comes stock is pretty cool but there's so many other ones you can pick from so on this screen, you're gonna tap on gallery and from here You'll have some really great clocks to choose from so at the top you'll tap on clocks. It's right next to inspire 3 so here are all the watch faces that are available for you to add to your Fitbit and Let's go through here and let's pick one to change So I like this one here I'm going to tap on this one and tap on this install button and It just takes a few seconds for it to sync You'll see the Fitbit logo pop up first and then you'll see that new watch face show up on the screen and There's our new watch face. Now. I want to point out that you can tap the screen To change the metric so in the upper left corner This is where the metrics will show up and right now so it says zero active minutes tap it again zero steps That's the heart rate calories burnt and Distance so you can tap just on the screen to change what displays on your Fitbit in terms of the metrics If you go all the way through it'll just show the time so that's just one of many watch faces that are available and If I swipe up here you can see all the different views or screenshots of the different metrics that the app will show and At the bottom here, you'll see some recommended other watch faces that you might like now take your time and go through to look at the different options that are available and We hit our back button here Go back to our gallery So that's quick rundown of just how to change the watch face Now right next to clocks you have apps and Here, you'll see all the different apps that are on the Fitbit Unfortunately, there's not a store that will let you add more. These are the only apps that are available Next I want to go over how to make a few other important tweaks one specifically is to your step goal So if you go to main goal here You can first of all set. What do you want your main goal to be every day? Is it number of steps? Is it the distance? Is it burning so many calories or is it number of active zone minutes? So that's the first thing set the type of goal you want each day After you've set your goal, you're gonna hit the back button Press it again You'll want to go to you swipe up under goals tap see all and Here we can swipe up Under steps, you're gonna tap there and you can change this goal to make it more or less maybe you want to really reach for a 15k steps a day or Maybe 10,000 is a bit much and you rather go for seven 7,500 set that goal here and you can also go in and set a bedtime goal a wake-up goal Exercise goal and then it will hold you accountable with alerts and notifications You can also go in and set your your goals for how many calories you want to burn a day Set goals for the weight you want body fat percentage All that how much water you want to drink a day? You can customize all of this to help you keep track of all your goals Now, let's go back To our Fitbit now the very last thing I want to show you is how to interact with calls when they come through So I'm going to initiate a call that's gonna pop up on the screen in a couple of seconds here There we go. So I can drag down To answer the call or I can drag up to decline the call So those are the two options you'll get now one more thing I want to show you is when you decline the call if you just swipe up It's gonna dismiss the call but then it will give you this pop-up to show you. Okay this person called and if I tap Then I can swipe up to get an option to call back Or I can tap on this option, which is to send one of my quick replies so I can send, you know, yes. No Sounds good. Can't talk now or what's up so I can tap that and it will automatically send that as a reply text message There you go. And I just got the message And let me initiate the call one more time I want to show you just one more thing in terms of the options that will show up Okay, so I'm gonna swipe up dismiss the call and tap and so call back Auto-reply text Auto-reply with an emoji or I can just simply clear this out all together showing that I saw the notification So that's how you interact with calls when they come through this brings us to the end of our video I hope you found this helpful I try to be thorough and go over all the important things you would need to know From setup to important things in the settings that you'll want to adjust and obviously all the fun stuff, too So if you found value in this video, please take a minute and bump that like button down below again It will help this video to reach more people and just helping to educate folks who have this device and to feel comfortable with it And if you're not already a subscriber hit that subscribe button to stay tuned for more videos Leave me some feedback in the comment section Let me know again if you found value in the video that lets me know that this is a good series to continue to make Or if no one comments, maybe it's time to wrap this one up So I want to hear from you in the comment section down below Also as a reminder, you'll find some really good accessories for your Fitbit Inspire 3 in the comment section I'll link to some good charging docks some good different bands. You can purchase as well So check out that link in the description to find some other cool things to go with your Fitbit Inspire 3 Thanks again for watching take care and as always have a good one