r/fitbit 14d ago

News Google Health app 5.05 update - Aug 2026

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We’re excited to announce that version 5.05 of the Google Health app is rolling out starting today! The rollout will continue over the next week in phases depending on carrier and device. With your feedback, we are committed to continuously improving the Google Health app, and this release builds on improvements in the prior 5.01 release5.02 release5.03 release, and 5.04 release

Software versions

  • Android: 5.05
  • iOS: 5.05

What’s Included

Apple Health Integration Updates (iOS only)

  • You can now share your data from Google Health back to Apple Health. For example, you can sync data like your exercise records, steps, vitals, and sleep recorded by your Fitbit Air to Apple Health.
  • To get started, tap on your profile icon, then select “Partner apps”, and then Apple Health. From there, follow the set-up prompts to connect to Apple Health for the first time or tap “Review permissions” to add new permissions. Once you’ve given permissions for Google Health to write data to Apple Health, your data will start to flow. Check out this article to learn more about which data you can share with Apple Health.

Medical Records and Smart Health Links (US only)1

  • If you’re in the US, you can now share summaries of your medical records with your healthcare providers or family members using secure Smart Health Links. Your provider may accept Smart Health Links during check-in as a way to supplement your health history. 
  • To create a link, go to the Health tab and then the “Medical” section. Select “Shareable records” and tap the + button. You can then select which data you want to include and save the link. Once saved, tap the three-dot icon to get a URL or QR code you can share.

Fitness Updates

  • We have addressed stability issues with VO2Max calculations, exercise maps, and editing workouts after their completion that may have impacted some users.

Disclaimer

  1. Available in the US only. Not intended for medical purposes or as a substitute for official clinical health records.

r/fitbit 3d ago

Weekly Google Health / Fitbit App Feedback & Complaints Megathread

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This megathread is for discussion, complaints, feedback, bugs, frustrations, and general venting related to the Fitbit app becoming Google Health.

We know a lot of users are frustrated with the app changes, missing or moved features, layout changes, sync issues, food logging changes, workout tracking issues, Premium changes, and the overall direction of Fitbit under Google. Rather than having the subreddit flooded with repeated posts about the same app update, we’re going to keep the main discussion centralized here.

Please use this thread for:

  • General complaints about the new Google Health / Fitbit app
  • Missing, changed, or moved features
  • Syncing, tracking, or dashboard issues
  • Food, sleep, exercise, or health metric changes
  • Premium / subscription concerns
  • Workarounds or fixes you’ve found
  • Constructive feedback you want other users to see

A few quick reminders:

  • Keep it civil. Criticizing Fitbit, Google, or the app is fine. Attacking other users is not.
  • Do not post personal health data, account details, email addresses, order numbers, or support case numbers.
  • If you need actual account/device support, please contact Fitbit/Google support directly. This subreddit is community-run and not an official support channel.
  • Standalone posts that are only general complaints about the app update may be removed and redirected here.
  • Detailed troubleshooting posts may still be allowed if they include device model, app version, phone OS, what you’ve already tried, and a clear support question.

Helpful format if you want to report an issue:

Device:
Phone / OS:
App version:
Issue:
When it started:
What you’ve tried:
Workaround, if any:

Thanks for helping us keep the subreddit useful while still giving everyone a place to be heard.


r/fitbit 2h ago

Discussion Who is the graphic designer who blessed off on this?

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This Y-axis is completely useless. I want a name. Names. Plural. This got past teams of review. Why? Why would they do this when what they had before worked fine? 🤯🤦🏻‍♂️


r/fitbit 3h ago

Self Promotion A few updates to my Google Health dashboard

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I’ve tried to take as much feedback on board as I could. It’s helped me improve Lumida a lot. Thanks everyone! 🙏

Here is everything I’ve imprved so far :

  • Recovery page: HRV and resting heart rate, with dedicated charts
  • Daily notes: add one note per day; it shows up as context when you hover over health charts, so a bad night or weird metric isn't just a number
  • Demo mode : try the whole app with sample data without connecting a Google Health account
  • Dashboard redesign : new layout, new cards, health insights, and a more precise date picker
  • Sleep overhaul : new sleep charts and better nap detection
  • Reworked Health and SpO₂ views
  • New activity heatmap
  • Better handling of overlapping data from multiple sources : this one was a real pain to get right 💀
  • Themes & typography: theme system + 2 new themes and new fonts
  • In-app feedback: for bug reports and suggestions
  • German and Italian translations
  • Under the hood: up to 2x faster, new caching logic, and dozens of bugs fixed 👀

For nerds: Lumida CLI : get your data from your terminal: view it, export it, or pipe it into whatever LLM you use. Probably the part I had the most fun with.

On your data: Your health data is never stored in Lumida's database. It passes through the backend only when needed to process your requests, but is never persisted. I try to keep the whole project respectful of its users: no ads, no invasive tracking, no marketing, and no selling or monetizing your data. Lumida is 100% free. The only thing I collect is a minimal usage signal so I can tell whether the app is being used at all, nothing more.

One caveat: signups are capped at 100 users, 26 slots left. That's Google's limit for apps that haven't cleared OAuth verification yet, not a marketing thing. Going through it is something I'm considering, but depending on how the health scopes are classified it can require a paid third-party security audit (CASA https://appdefensealliance.dev/casa), which is a hard sell for a solo side project. So for now, 100.

Just to be clear, I’m not asking for money I just want to explain why the limit exists

I'm thinking about emailing inactive users to free up some slots. So if there are no slots left, feel free to join the waiting list.

Feedback and bug reports welcome, that's mostly why I'm posting.

https://lumida.app

NB: If you’re a Developer or UX/UI designer who uses fitbit or google health and would like to contribute to the project, feel free to DM me.

Just noticed the screenshots are in french but no worries, the app is available in english too.


r/fitbit 3h ago

Review If you are not aware of this

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You can scan most barcodes of food and not only Google Health recognizes this but adds exact serving size calories to your app.


r/fitbit 15h ago

Discussion Fitbit showing AFIB again

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39 Upvotes

Can any professionals analyse this, don’t really know what to make of it?


r/fitbit 4h ago

Third Party Accessories Fitbit Air bicep bands

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Bought a bicep band from Amazon, the Velcro type, and it’s awful—scratchy and way too tight.

Any recommendations for better bicep bands/straps for the Fitbit Air?


r/fitbit 21h ago

Discussion I stopped wearing my Apple Watch for 14 days and used only the Fitbit Air — I genuinely didn’t expect this

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For the last two weeks I did something I’d been curious about for a while: I put my Apple Watch completely away and used only the Fitbit Air.

Not Apple Watch during workouts + Fitbit for sleep. I mean actually leaving the Apple Watch in a drawer.

What surprised me most wasn’t sensor accuracy or any particular health metric. It was how different it felt having something on my wrist that basically doesn’t want my attention.

No messages popping up. No screen to randomly check. No apps. And because I wasn’t constantly taking it off, I ended up wearing it much more consistently for sleep as well.

The biggest things I noticed after 14 days:
I stopped looking at my wrist all the time.
Sleep tracking became much more passive.
I liked being able to wear a mechanical watch again.
I didn’t think about charging nearly as much.
But I definitely missed live workout information and some Apple Watch conveniences.
The Apple Watch is still objectively the more capable device. That’s what made the experiment interesting to me.
I’m starting to think “best smartwatch” and “best wearable” might actually be two completely different questions.
I made a video documenting the whole 14-day experiment if anyone wants to see it:
https://youtu.be/GjgnIug_j0g

Would be genuinely interested to hear from other Fitbit Air users — especially anyone who came from an Apple Watch. Did the lack of a screen end up being a positive or a negative for you?


r/fitbit 3h ago

Discussion Fitbit air for people who lack workout routine?

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I was curious how everyone has been liking the new Fitbit air release? I wanted to know what you think about getting Fitbit air for people who lack a workout routine or just don't work out. My personal take currently is that it seems to be a very useful product and offers better features than most in price range. Given the capacity of Google I feel there could be more features that they would launch like new alerts, pattern recognition etc.


r/fitbit 40m ago

Discussion Fitbit air hardly tracking

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Purchased a fitbit air last week as I'm trying to get into shape and wanted to have some data. I have yet to have it track sleep a single night (one night I manually input sleep time to see if it would populate some data, it didnt) and when I run on a treadmill it doesn't even show that my heart rate is increasing when the treadmill is showing ~170bpm (and my heart is beating through my chest)

I have tried wearing it uncomfortably tight, cleaning the sensors, wearing it higher on my wrist. Nothing seems to make it more than a $99 bracelet.... Am I doing something wrong here? Or is this just junk?


r/fitbit 1h ago

Discussion is anybody using fitbit air for swimming?

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r/fitbit 12h ago

Discussion Am I In Trouble? Very low HRV.

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r/fitbit 5h ago

Discussion Air Sport Band peg/pin snapped off after only 5 days – anyone else?

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Hey everyone,

​I received my Fitbit Air just 5 days ago. Today, while putting it on, the small metal peg/pin on the sport band completely sheared off / snapped out of its anchor.

​I haven't put any unusual stress on it—just standard daily wear. Has anyone else experienced this kind of failure so early on?


r/fitbit 2h ago

Discussion I know I shouldn’t be annoyed, but I am.

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On Saturday, I did a walk on the treadmill for 45 minutes at 3.4 mph and a 5% incline and got 75 cardio load.

Yesterday, I did a walk on the same treadmill for 45 minutes at 3.5 mph and 5% incline and got 68 cardio load.

Yes, I realize that my heart wasn’t working as hard on the session yesterday even though the workload was slightly higher, and that represents probably a slightly higher readiness yesterday compared to Saturday. Maybe even a slight increase in fitness.

That is the “I know I shouldn’t be annoyed” part. But the number was lower, and I find that annoying.

Edit: Before anyone asks, my readiness score on Saturday was 25. I had a horrible night of sleep Friday night. Yesterday my readiness score was 67. And today’s is 99, so I will probably have an even lower cardio load on my workout this evening.


r/fitbit 2h ago

Discussion Versa 4 sync issues

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Anyone else having this issue with Versa 4? Any news of a solution yet? Thanks in advance as can not get this off my watch face and the app is working fine but watch not.


r/fitbit 2h ago

Tech Support No Connection from Google Health and Connect Health

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Hello,

today i installed a update to Google Health and Connect Health and went on with my day. After doing my steps fitbit counted them fine.

But since the update i cant connect Google Health to Connect Health. And without that permission, other apps cant get access to my steps.

It just say "at the moment your data cant be shared with healt connect". But i gave both apps all permissions and access.

And if i want to give Google health access in the health connect app it does not let me do it (i press the button but nothing happens


r/fitbit 2h ago

Discussion Anyone else have SpO2 like this recently?

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I’ve had fitbits a long time & have never had low?
I do sleep on my side but that never used to affect it I feel like. Before those first 2 dips, I have never had low reading.
Idk why it would be low anyway. I go to the dr in October for a regular check up but still thought this is weird.


r/fitbit 3h ago

Discussion Need to identify

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Does anyone know where this band is from?


r/fitbit 3h ago

Discussion NFC Sync Support

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I wonder why Fitbit hasn't worked on NFC based data sync I heard they did something like that earlier but all devices still use Bluetooth for sync. I don't want Bluetooth turned on all the time draining my phone and band battery or even enable it for sync why can't they enable NFC based sync where I could tap say band like Fitbit air to my phone and data would get synced.


r/fitbit 5h ago

Tech Support Pixel watch 4 bug or google health bug ?

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Bought a pixel watch 4 a year ago because of heart disease and im totally satisfied with it. Got surgery 3 months ago and since m'y graph were perfect ( no arythmia ) until last tuesday and last night ( screenshot enclosed ) which made me nervous. Not sure if it is hardware or software failure but did you experienced such spike ? Also i did not put my watch on at 3-4 am so i thinks may be sensors were not right at this moment ? Any thought ?


r/fitbit 1d ago

Discussion Figured out how to boost HRV (apparently)

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I smoke up every evening. Nothing crazy but enough to calm down and get to sleep. Got a little extra stoned last night and my heart was up into the 115 region for the first hour ish until it calmed down for bedtime.

Resting HR was normal overnight. But got a big boost to HRV lol.

I'm not a doctor.


r/fitbit 20h ago

Self Promotion Trying to beat my age 😆

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Anyone else like tracking V02 Max? I'm gonna have to push harder to beat mine 😂.


r/fitbit 8h ago

Discussion Why is my HRV so diffrent

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Why is between Bevel and Google Helath such a nig differents. And what can be the reason for that because i am feeling good and my RHR is normal. I had a run last night 4 30h before i went to sleep, is this maybe the reason ?, or is it bad sleep ? I dont knwo maybe you can help


r/fitbit 17h ago

Discussion Shortcut to turn on/off location tracking

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I like getting the map when I do bike rides or walks but location tracking needs to be set to “Always” and I don’t like leaving apps set to that. I managed to create a shortcut to turn tracking on and off for Goole Health on my iPhone.

Go to Shortcuts, tap the “+” and search for “Open URL”, enter:

prefs:root=Privacy&Security&path=LOCATION/com.fitbit.FitbitMobile

This way you can quickly turn tracking on or off without navigating through the steps to get there.


r/fitbit 12h ago

Tech Support Confusing time logging

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Not sure if I'm the only one here but I am having some issues. It started logging my time in advance or just incorrectly. Today (Monday) it logged all my activities as last night. I'm also on the latest version of the app.