Fitbit may soon roll out new feature that can detect snores

Washington [US]: Fitbit may soon roll out a new feature that detects snoring and noise by its devices titled ‘Snore & Noise Detect’. The move is will likely to help the spouses and partners of the snoring population.

The Verge quoted a report in 9to5Google, which decompiled the latest version of the Fitbit app in Google’s Play Store. The feature allows a Fitbit’s microphone (in devices that have one) to listen to “ambient noise including one’s potential snoring,” after a person has fallen asleep.

The novel feature would not only be a major drain on the device’s battery, the idea of a sleep tracker monitoring noise “throughout the night,” as the release notes state, is a little creepy.