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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Early Fitbit Air shipments are hitting Android pairing problems because Google Health app v5.0 hasn’t rolled out to all devices yet; Google says it’s accelerating the update to accommodate early deliveries, while iOS users are unaffected.
Google's Fitbit Air is a compact, screenless wearable that relies on the redesigned Google Health app and Gemini-powered AI Coach to deliver coaching, auto-logging, and concise health summaries. It competes with Whoop on concepts and price (hardware around $100) and shines with fast charging and flexible bands, but the AI can misinterpret data at times and the app has a few quirks, leaving room for improvement before it becomes a clear winner in the health-tech wearables space.
The Fitbit Air is a 12g, screen-free fitness band with a week-long battery and robust health sensors, designed to work with Google Health and a paid AI health coach that analyzes workouts and offers actionable guidance. It aims to help non-fitness enthusiasts improve sleep and overall health, with data integrated across devices, and launches May 26 at $99.
Google has migrated the Fitbit Community to Google Health Community, folding Fitbit into its broader health ecosystem. The redesigned forum now covers the Google Health app, Google Fitbit Air, and existing devices like Sense, Versa, Inspire, and Ace, while older Fitbit discussions are harder to access, potentially erasing years of troubleshooting and support content.
A DC Rainmaker 24-hour peek at the Fitbit Air covers a full unboxing, initial hardware comparisons (to Whoop 5.0/MG, Polar Loop, and Amazfit Helio), and on-wrist shots for both Ray and his wife. The post signals a deeper look once a 24-hour data pass is analyzed in Google Health, including early running and cycling data, with plans to expand the review as more metrics come in.
Google Health Base offers comprehensive activity, sleep, and health tracking. Premium adds a health coach, adaptive fitness plans, deeper insights, medical-record summaries, and an on‑demand workout library for $9.99/month or $99.99/year. Google also says Premium can be included for free with Google One AI Pro ($19.99/month) or AI Ultra ($249.99/month), with rollout starting May 19 and finishing by May 26. Whether to upgrade depends on how much you value coaching, deeper analytics, and the workout library.
The Fitbit Air is Google's screen-free wearable that tracks health metrics through the revamped Google Health app. Pre-orders cost $99 for the regular model and $129 for the Steph Curry edition, with each retailer offering a free band as a bonus. Google Store orders come with a $35 credit toward accessories and three months of Google Health Premium; the device works with Android and iOS and emphasizes a minimal, band-based design alongside the Google Health app and its Health Coach features.
Google launches the Fitbit Air, a $99 screenless tracker that prioritizes passive health data, seven-day battery life, and a Google Health app with optional Premium AI insights, positioning it as a minimalist alternative between Whoop and smartwatches. It’s smaller and cheaper than Whoop, aims to return Fitbit to its original, low-friction tracking ethos, and ships May 26 (preorder now, with a Stephen Curry edition at $130). The Google Health app rolls out May 19 and may integrate medical data for a broader health ecosystem.
Google officially launches Fitbit Air, a screenless $99 wrist wearable that tracks 24/7 health metrics (HR, HRV, sleep, AFib alerts, steps and workouts) on Android and iOS, integrates with a new Google Health app and three months of Google Health Premium with the Health Coach, lasts up to seven days, and can be swapped with or used alongside a Pixel Watch; pre-orders start at $99 with various bands.
Google unveils the screenless Fitbit Air, a $99.99 wrist sensor that lasts about a week and streams data to the new Google Health app, which will replace Fitbit with a redesigned interface and a Google Health Premium that includes an AI Health Coach built on Gemini. The Fitbit app is rebranded to Google Health, Fitbit Premium becomes Google Health Premium, and Fitbit’s service will shut down later this year with data migration to Google Health; users can still pair a Pixel Watch and Fitbit Air, and the Air includes three months of Premium and various band options.