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technology20 hours ago•5 min saved

Pixel Watch Fitbit Sensor Bug Halts Health Tracking Across Generations

Pixel Watch users report a persistent Fitbit sensor permission screen that blocks access to health apps even when all permissions are enabled, across multiple generations. Factory resets don’t fix it, suggesting a software issue in the Fitbit-to-Google Health integration. Google hasn’t issued an official statement yet. The recommended interim steps are to keep the watch firmware and Google Health app updated and ensure data is syncing, while avoiding factory resets since they rarely help.

via Techgenyz|

#fitbit #google-health #health-data

technology2 days ago•6 min saved

Featherweight Fitbit Air wins me over from WHOOP

A three-week switch from WHOOP to Fitbit Air reveals a lighter, more comfortable wear (12g), strong battery life (8+ days), and surprisingly helpful Google Health AI summaries that trump WHOOP’s data-heavy app. Initial tracking hiccups faded with calibration, and at a $99 price the Air offers compelling value that could push me to switch fully—though dedicated athletes may still prefer WHOOP’s deeper metrics.

via Android Authority|

#fitbit-air #fitness-tracker #google-health

technology5 days ago•6 min saved

Google Health 5.03 Expands Metrics and Sleep Features

Google’s Health app update 5.03 rolls out on Android and iOS, expanding the Today tab with additional metrics (HRV, breathing rate, SpO2, resting heart rate, skin temperature variation, glucose, mindful days/minutes, resilience, and diet metrics plus a friend leaderboard); sleep tracking gains include naps over 20 minutes counting toward the 24-hour total and new trend views for main vs total sleep; swim distance and Strava elevation bugs are fixed; iOS gains include easier metric reordering, improved food search, and nap viewing (features already on Android in 5.02).

via Droid Life|

#android #google-health #health-metrics

tech21 days ago•49 min saved

Fitbit Air: a slim tracker with an ambitious AI health coach

The Google Fitbit Air pairs a lightweight, long‑lasting tracker with Google's AI Health Coach, offering daily sleep/readiness summaries and personalized daily actions while letting you use basic tracking without the AI. The Air’s hardware excels (comfort, battery life) and supports a robust metric set, but the AI coach requires substantial setup and ongoing handholding (including uploading medical records via CLEAR verification) and can revert to older data; its best use today is as a helpful bridge between doctor visits, not a replacement for medical care. The option of a premium subscription is optional, with a three‑month trial included, making the AI features accessible without forcing paywalls. Overall, the Air represents Google’s most practical health wearable to date, balancing affordability with ambitious software amid ongoing AI-health challenges.

via The Verge|

#ai #fitness-trackers #google-health

technology25 days ago•7 min saved

Google Health 5.02 revives key Fitbit/Pixel Watch features with hourly activity

Google Health 5.02 restores several rebrand-era gaps for Android and Pixel Watch users, bringing back hourly activity in Today/Health tabs, sleep-editing fixes, and naps on Android, plus easier log clearing and an expanded Today view; rollout is phased across Android and iOS (with 5.03 for iOS coming later).

via PhoneArena|

#android #fitbit #google-health

technology25 days ago•78 min saved

Google Health brings back Hourly Activity, adds Android-only tweaks in June update

Google Health’s June update reintroduces Hourly Activity charts in the Today and Health tabs, adds Android-focused customization to re-order Key Metrics and expand the Today view, and introduces Nap recording (highlighted in Sleep Score) for Android—with iOS support coming in a future patch. Updates roll out in phases over the coming weeks.

via Android Central|

#android #google-health #hourly-activity

technology26 days ago•6 min saved

Google Health Lands a Major v5.02 Update with 13+ Enhancements

Google Health’s v5.02 update for iOS and Android adds 13+ changes across the Today and Health tabs, sleep, nutrition, and third‑party data handling. Highlights include an Expanded metrics view and easier reordering on Today, restored hourly activity charts, improved sleep features (restlessness placement, naps visibility, full deletion), faster food search with visible macros, an updated Nutrition tile showing calories in/out, and the ability to delete individual logs from connected apps (with cross‑platform deletion implications).

via Droid Life|

#google-health #health-app #nutrition

technology1 month ago•10 min saved

Fitbit Air: A Lightweight Screenless Tracker Hindered by a Chatty AI Health Coach

The Fitbit Air is a comfortable, screenless fitness tracker with solid battery life that tracks core metrics, but Google’s AI Health Coach—while integrated and helpful for some users—feels overly verbose and occasionally inaccurate, which may not justify upgrading to Premium for many buyers.

via Ars Technica|

#fitbit-air #fitness-tracker #google-health

technology1 month ago•5 min saved

Google Health fixes 15+ bugs in a sweeping v5.01 update after user backlash

After a rocky rollout, Google Health v5.01 delivers a major bugfix update with 15+ fixes across nutrition, workouts, maps, sleep scores, and account migration—adding support for viewing custom foods, improved third‑party food log handling, faster GPS map loading, accurate workout labels and run splits, iOS step‑count correction, more Android Today tab updates, and Fitbit migration improvements, with more fixes promised soon.

via Droid Life|

#app-update #bug-fixes #fitness-tracking

technology1 month ago•9 min saved

Personalizing Google's Health App: A Practical Setup Guide

A practical guide to configuring Google's new Health app: customize the Today page tiles by deleting and re-adding items (drag rearrangement isn’t supported yet), repeat the same cleanup on the Health tab for a tailored data view, and on Android add the (non-customizable) Google Health widget for quick metrics. The article frames these steps as part of Google’s ongoing updates after replacing Fitbit, aimed at improving usability.

via Droid Life|

#android #app-customization #fitbit-replacement

technology1 month ago•8 min saved

Google Health Roadmap Unveils 39+ Upgrades to Fine‑Tune the Fitbit Transition

Google lays out a roadmap of 39+ features and fixes for Google Health, covering exercise tracking, sleep, nutrition, and the Google Health Coach, with rolling updates starting this week and continuing through summer to address gaps left by the Fitbit transition and improve overall usability.

via Droid Life|

#fitbit #fitness-tracking #google-health

wearables1 month ago•61 min saved

Seven essential first steps to set up Google's Fitbit Air

Google’s Fitbit Air is a $99, screenless fitness tracker that works with the Google Health app. This seven‑step setup guide walks you through enabling alarms, setting wrist preference to improve step accuracy, adjusting vibration, sharing heart‑rate data with apps/equipment, selecting a main fitness goal, configuring heart‑rate warnings, and turning on AFib irregular rhythm alerts—delivering a quick, subscription‑free path to start tracking sleep and workouts.

via Android Central|

#afib-detection #alarms #fitbit-air

technology1 month ago•3 min saved

Google Health refines Fitbit-era app with user-requested tweaks

Google is rolling out updates to its Health app (the successor to Fitbit) after user complaints, adding easier Today/Health dashboard customization, new features like custom food logging, hourly step-goal charts, and a 24-hour sleep overview. The AI coach will deliver shorter, more visuals-heavy insights and better balance between usefulness and positivity, with question prompts refined for more detail when needed. Other improvements include correctly labeling runs, adding run splits, and prompting for intent. Family account migrations remain a focus, with June set to allow deleting child accounts and unblocking migrations.

via The Verge|

#ai-coach #dashboard-customization #fitbit-replacement

wearables-and-health1 month ago•18 min saved

Google Health readies a broad upgrade wave with fixes, Coach tweaks, and data sharing

Google has outlined a comprehensive rollout of bug fixes and new features for the redesigned Google Health app, with improvements spanning exercise tracking (correct run labeling, run splits, faster map loading, TCX exports across devices), nutrition logging (duplicate logs prevention, better meal types, energy-burn accuracy), sleep features (missing Sleep Scores fixed, 24-hour sleep view including naps), and upgrades to Google Health Coach and Ask Coach (more visuals, concise messages, memory improvements, log deletion, core temperature logging). Additional updates include plans for more structured Fitness Plans, enhanced metric views and dashboards, data sharing with Apple Health and Smart Health Links, and improved account migration (June: delete child accounts). Google Health Premium and Google Fitbit Air are now available, with ongoing updates planned through summer and Apple Health sharing on the roadmap.

via Android Authority|

#fitbit #google #google-fitbit-air

gadgets1 month ago•51 min saved

Google Health lands, but Fitbit fans want the old app back

Google Health has replaced the Fitbit app with an AI-driven interface, prompting confusion and frustration as users navigate a redesigned Today screen, limited quick access to stats, and an AI health coach. Some users appreciate the coaching features, but many want the old Fitbit app back and complain about scrolling through long AI notes and cluttered data presentation. Google notes that with a connected wearable you’ll see extra tabs for Fitness and Sleep, and third‑party wearables may be supported later, plus the AI coach can be disabled via Privacy Controls. The transition coincides with the launch of the Fitbit Air.

via The Verge|

#ai-coaching #fitbit #fitness-tracking