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Is anyone else struggling with the new Google Health app interface?

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ParmaVioletTea · 25/05/2026 21:34

Is anyone else finding the replacement app for their Fitbit - Google Health - has the interface from hell? I use my Fitbit to track steps, heart rate in my work outs, my sleep patterns, and track calories every now and again.

The replacement of the Fitbit app by GoogleHealth is awful, awful, awful. Trying to track calories particularly. The user interface is appalling.

If anyone has any tips for easier food input I’m all ears - recording the grammes of food is particularly impossible,

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SilverBlue4 · 09/06/2026 20:48

TurquoiseDress · 09/06/2026 20:45

You’re lucky to get any sleep readings!

My sleep reading is now zero, the new app took over around a week/10 days ago but strangely I have no sleep logged after around 6 weeks ago

It’s all a load of shit in my opinion, at least I can still see my steps!

Mine is the same
I never used the HR monitor and so now it won't log sleep unless I turn it on and I don't want to. I just want basic sleep tracking.

According to Google health help bot, this won't work and they have no plans to change it. I've got a sleep app instead that works via sound. Fuck em

TurquoiseDress · 09/06/2026 20:45

You’re lucky to get any sleep readings!

My sleep reading is now zero, the new app took over around a week/10 days ago but strangely I have no sleep logged after around 6 weeks ago

It’s all a load of shit in my opinion, at least I can still see my steps!

Femalefootyfan1 · 08/06/2026 17:35

I’m now finding this app is over judging my sleep. For yesterday, it says I went to bed at 19.46 and says I was awake for 2 hours 7 minutes. I actually went to bed around 21.10. I was watching tv until about 21.00 and probably sat still for half an hour from about 20.30, it’s ridiculous.

pb97 · 08/06/2026 11:32

Hopeful2go · 08/06/2026 11:25

Ah right. Get it. I’ve only ever used Noom to log foods and had similar problems to you with it. That and sometimes simply couldn’t be bothered to trawl my way through long lists of stuff so used to plump on the nearest ready-meal .

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that's OK but you often need to dramatically change the quantity to get the calories to match, and that throws the nutrition out. it was so much easier when we could save meal plans and recipes.

it's also ridiculous that we can't see calories in and out for a week on the same screen like we used to.

I don't need all of these daily stats they're giving us, I need to see how I'm doing weekly or monthly. my goals are long term, and my health needs require the abity to see trends. fitbit used to be great for this now I have to copy things into excel.

I'm currently trying to pull stats into Home Assistant to build a new dashboard to replace the old fitbit one

Hopeful2go · 08/06/2026 11:25

pb97 · 08/06/2026 11:16

Google health. fitbit used to remember basic information

for example if I added multiple items for yesterday it would remember the date in between items, Google doesn't you need to pick it each time

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Ah right. Get it. I’ve only ever used Noom to log foods and had similar problems to you with it. That and sometimes simply couldn’t be bothered to trawl my way through long lists of stuff so used to plump on the nearest ready-meal .

pb97 · 08/06/2026 11:16

Hopeful2go · 08/06/2026 11:07

Is this Noom or Google Health?

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Google health. fitbit used to remember basic information

for example if I added multiple items for yesterday it would remember the date in between items, Google doesn't you need to pick it each time

Hopeful2go · 08/06/2026 11:12

DutchnRascal · 07/06/2026 23:03

I hate the new Google Health App - I want the old Fitbit one back - it doesn't record the number you walk each day

It does with me. It’s on the top rh side of the page you get when you log on.

it does seem to be overestimating it so far today, mind you. Maybe it’s to do with the fact it still thinks I’m exercising. (In cafe with a cuppa atm so the only exercise is lifting my cup to my mouth and typing this post! 😇

Hopeful2go · 08/06/2026 11:07

pb97 · 06/06/2026 10:58

I'm struggling to log my food, the old app used to remember dates, if I'm entering for yesterday I have to put in the date for every item, which is a chore since they took away custom recipes and food items. I now either have to enter the ingredients individually or find a ready meal with the approximate same description which means my home cooking is being recorded as supermarket food. which makes the nutritional content totally useless on the app.

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Is this Noom or Google Health?

DutchnRascal · 07/06/2026 23:03

I hate the new Google Health App - I want the old Fitbit one back - it doesn't record the number you walk each day

LIZS · 07/06/2026 07:02

babs7119 · 07/06/2026 04:56

I do not like Google Health app. Especially not being able to manually enter my blood sugar readings. Iv

How odd. Under Log on first screen I get Glucose as an option.

babs7119 · 07/06/2026 04:56

I do not like Google Health app. Especially not being able to manually enter my blood sugar readings. Iv

Hopeful2go · 06/06/2026 15:39

That was a surprise. I just checked my activity to find it logged my epic 25 min ironing session earlier as a ‘walk!’

SilverBlue4 · 06/06/2026 12:09

Tried to do the roll back as suggested but cannot actually find the download for the files needed without constant pop ups to download other stuff.

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ParmaVioletTea · 06/06/2026 11:17

Yes the good logging is the worst! I’ve managed to rearrange the first screen so I have my steps in the large circle but everything else is rubbish. I used to be able to see a day’s record of steps, sleep, logged exercise, and calories consumed on one screen at a glance.

can’t do that now.

The press for the app is pretty uniformly bad. Good.

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pb97 · 06/06/2026 10:58

Hopeful2go · 05/06/2026 20:20

It takes me forever to work out where to log my weight AND the wretched thing still isn’t syncing with Liva. I’m seriously thinking of going back to Noom (free version) for weight recording purposes.

I'm struggling to log my food, the old app used to remember dates, if I'm entering for yesterday I have to put in the date for every item, which is a chore since they took away custom recipes and food items. I now either have to enter the ingredients individually or find a ready meal with the approximate same description which means my home cooking is being recorded as supermarket food. which makes the nutritional content totally useless on the app.

InconsequentialFerret · 06/06/2026 09:17

SilverBlue4 · 06/06/2026 09:14

How do you roll back on Android?

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Do the hack I posted on page 1 of the thread.

SilverBlue4 · 06/06/2026 09:14

InconsequentialFerret · 06/06/2026 07:28

Seriously everyone, do the hack I posted and go back to an earlier version and you'll be much happier! I have my old Fitbit interface which will see me out until I need a new watch.

How do you roll back on Android?

InconsequentialFerret · 06/06/2026 07:28

Seriously everyone, do the hack I posted and go back to an earlier version and you'll be much happier! I have my old Fitbit interface which will see me out until I need a new watch.

Hopeful2go · 05/06/2026 20:20

It takes me forever to work out where to log my weight AND the wretched thing still isn’t syncing with Liva. I’m seriously thinking of going back to Noom (free version) for weight recording purposes.

pb97 · 05/06/2026 09:22

Converse4Ever · 25/05/2026 21:47

I don’t know why calories burned isn’t on the main page anymore.

it's terrible. there used to be a single graph that showed calories in and out for the entire week in one place, now I need to keep swapping between two different screens to see if I'm meeting my goals.

I'm seriously thinking about buying a garmin

eurochick · 04/06/2026 21:46

I can’t even log in. It claims my google account is a workplace account. It is not, and has never been, a workplace account. Absolute pile of crap.

VivendaLuiza · 04/06/2026 20:43

100% shite!
google you have no idea what distress you have caused and now have effectively destroyed people’s mental health and wellbeing Hopefully no ones blood will be on their hands.

InLoveWithAI · 04/06/2026 11:45

kiwiflan · 01/06/2026 17:03

I can confirm the ai coach has got every single item way off with calories. You can’t manually enter set amounts so you have to look up exactly the calories online and then get the ai coach to add that. It didn’t even get it right for a pre-made item with set calories. The macros must be way off too but I don’t have time to check.

I can log manually.

But I do have premium, so dunno if that's why.

parachutegirl · 04/06/2026 09:55

It’s crap. Takes about half hour to load any data and I hate the way the page is laid out. Might have to get an Apple Watch for my birthday 🎈

SabrinaThwaite · 02/06/2026 22:39

Hopeful2go · 02/06/2026 16:44

🤣 That’s the one upside of the wretched app: it’s actually crediting me for my exercise far more accurately than before. Otherwise , it’s like being in the 7th circle of hell. Especially when you try to record your weight. Plus it’s refusing to sync with my Liva app, so that’s yet another job to add to the ‘to do’ list .

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I’d never considered mowing the lawn as exercise. It’s a tiny lawn, it takes me longer to get the lawn mower out and put it away again than to mow the thing. Although I did No Mow May (more by accident than design) which meant more mowing than usual, so I’ll take it.

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