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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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MyThreeWords · 31/05/2026 19:22

I find the interface fine. But I don't trust the rebrand whatsoever. I assume that their mission is to suck more data from us in return for plugging us in to unwanted and pointless additional functions that we never asked for.

I feel I need to comb through it in detail and see what they are up to. But I am also much too lazy to do that. So I guess I will just fall out of love with the whole pointless rigmarole. I don't really need the data I'm collecting and it is less and less fun to collect it.

TurquoiseDress · 31/05/2026 19:20

My sleep has nothing logged since early April…why??

My Fitbit app turned into Google health app earlier this week and my sleep was all logged up until the day before. All my sleep has disappeared and can only see early April/earlier

Has everyone else still got their sleep data…?

TurquoiseDress · 31/05/2026 19:17

Bythecooker · 31/05/2026 18:10

I just turned my phone off and on again and it seems to have returned to the old style app. Has anyone else had this?

Am off to try this!

Perrygreen · 31/05/2026 19:09

My watch has lost my cardio score. I liked that feature as I'd see it getting better when I exercised every day (week off work / good weather).

Amsylou · 31/05/2026 18:24

Mine lost both exercises I did earlier in the week (well, not entirely, but says I did 0 cardio minutes) and is completely inaccurate on most counts. I’m planning to get an Apple Watch soon so that will be it, after having Fitbit for a decade. I’m so pissed off now.

Bythecooker · 31/05/2026 18:10

I just turned my phone off and on again and it seems to have returned to the old style app. Has anyone else had this?

Dbrin01 · 31/05/2026 12:06

I had no option with this, it just did it overnight! I hate it and as others have said it’s winding me up more than it should, I hate it! Everything about it. You can’t even log food for tomorrow, I take sandwiches for work and make them the night before and log it all! Can’t do actual weights of food which is how I always logged it, very accurate! I am looking elsewhere if we can’t change anything with it!

SabrinaThwaite · 31/05/2026 12:04

My Inspire 3 battery hasn’t been great for the last few months, but the last few days it seems to be draining quickly. Might just be a coincidence though.

ParmaVioletTea · 31/05/2026 12:00

The other advice on the Reddit thread is to sign up for Premium then cancel it.

I think a lot of the crapness of the app is deliberately intended to drive users to paying for the Premium package. I had a free year of Premium when I first bought my current Fitbit but I didn’t continue- I didn’t think it was worth paying for.

I might try the free trial they’re offering then cancel. I need to save for an Apple Watch!

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Seasidewalker · 31/05/2026 09:05

The Redditt discussion is interesting, I'm off to leave a poor review.

It's such a piss poor app, I don't count calories but closely monitor heart rate and HRV in connection with a medical condition. The pointless Cardio wheel is completely unhelpful, it's congratulating me on a great Cardio score when actually my HR is high whilst I'm sitting on the sofa.

I just want data not the interpretation...

Interestingly my sleep has looked better this week, I've made some lifestyle changes and I was encouraged that they were working, maybe not!

DH's Charge 6 battery has become poor in the last couple of weeks, I wonder if this is linked? Google managed to bork the old Nexus Tablets years ago with an update that trashed them, I wonder if this is similar?

Also interested in alternatives, looks like DH's is going to need replacing.

Uberaddict · 30/05/2026 14:36

Ok - yesterday I did 50 floors on a stair machine and it logged 0 floors 🤦🏼‍♀️ Hate that I have lost the calorie deficit which I loved BUT the premium photograph your plate and estimating your calories is remarkably accurate

LIZS · 29/05/2026 16:40

Just logged activity, the time is showing incorrectly on the dashboard and no heart rate graph.

ParmaVioletTea · 29/05/2026 14:46

Interesting thread on Redditt:

Google product manager on the Fitbit update

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TheBestSpoon · 29/05/2026 11:08

fellupthestairs · 28/05/2026 22:10

I think everyone should write a scathing review in the App Store / Play store if you have a minute. I’ve done one as it’s really pissed me off.

Just done this. It's so annoying!!!

LIZS · 29/05/2026 08:18

Mine tells me I had 2 exercise days but when I click through there are none recorded. Recorded weight has disappeared too.

TurquoiseDress · 29/05/2026 08:05

Right I’ve given it over 24 hours now and it’s still frustrating and just rubbish overall

Looks like I have no sleep data at all for last night or the past 6 weeks- but I was tracking it as usual in the Fitbit app

I have a Fitbit Inspire 2…is this the issue, is it ‘too old’ to be compatible…?!

fellupthestairs · 28/05/2026 22:10

I think everyone should write a scathing review in the App Store / Play store if you have a minute. I’ve done one as it’s really pissed me off.

Glitterbiscuits · 28/05/2026 21:41

I hate it too! I thought it was just me being a Luddite.

I want to throw it away!

ParmaVioletTea · 28/05/2026 21:18

I had a pretty fast sweaty training session this morning - dumbbell complexes and running a 100 kilo sled, and the new app registered

Absolutely nothing.

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JulietteNichols · 28/05/2026 19:25

I've just swim a little over a mile and the new app says I've swim 113m in an hour! It's so terrible. I can't change the front page to what I want, inaccurate tracking.

SabrinaThwaite · 28/05/2026 17:52

I went into settings and made sure lots of things were switched off.

I liked the old Fitbit settings where you could swipe back through to get previous days full stats.

LoserWinner · 28/05/2026 17:02

The AI is completely f*kk3d. It thinks I spent an hour and a half in the gym from 12.30am. I was actually asleep, heart rate 59 and no steps. I could put up with the other (pretty awful) changes, but I DON’T WANT an AI ‘coach’. I want to turn the damned thing off.

TurquoiseDress · 28/05/2026 15:11

So I’ve given it several hours since waking this morning…I still think it’s shit

Looks like I have zero sleep data logged since early April…does anyone know where it might be?
I always track my sleep and have a total amount to see each morning…the sleep score thing was great but it stopped working around 18 months ago, this was several months before my Fitbit ‘premium’ subscription ran out

All I’m interested in is steps & sleep

What a load of shite!

hotflashes · 28/05/2026 14:26

Why Has this been done? Is it supposed to improve the ‘user experience’? If so … epic fail!

ChalkOutlines · 28/05/2026 14:18

Why do companies keep “fixing” things that ain’t broken? I hate the new interface and it’s all just shit and gimmicky.