Withings Wants New Users To Pay $100 A Year To Sync With Apple Health
The smart health company is gating third-party app syncing to its own subscription plan for new users.
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Withings has found itself in hot water with its customers after adopting an expensive policy change this week. According to a post on the company's support forum, Withings appears to be gating the ability for users to sync their data with Apple Health to its own subscription service. Current users don't seem to be impacted, but accounts made after October 13 need to be Withings+ members to automatically connect their information to Apple Health or another similar third-party app. The Withings+ plan costs $100 a year.
Many of the responses to the original post are from existing users criticizing the change to apply this additional charge to new customers for what is a comparatively simple feature. A reply labeled as "Official response from Withings" confirms the change, though stating that after the...
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