Google Health (Fitbit)

Had an issue with the battery not charging since Google Health took over from FitBit in May 2026. My Charge 5 did not charge as soon as it became Google Health, before it lasted around 4-5 days! There are NO plans for a fix, making devices useless. This is my reply to the battery life issue from 'Profits-First-Users-Second' Google, the issue is very well known but not enough for them to do anything about: 'Hi Fiona, I completely understand your frustration about the battery issue on your Charge 5. I want to give you a straightforward and honest answer. To be completely transparent: there is currently no estimated time or release date for a fix. While community product experts cannot promise release schedules, I have escalated this thread internally to emphasize to the team that this ongoing issue is severely impacting user experience. Thank you for bringing this up so clearly. Direct feedback like yours helps ensure these recurring issues stay visible. Best regards, Rene'

Not user friendly and doesn’t track correctly. If I hadn’t just bought a new Fitbit watch I’d stop using it altogether

I keep being reminded to reconnect other health apps like vitality or yulife, but they've made it impossible. Yulife says i need to still reconnect despite having completed the reconnection steps about a week ago. Vitality app claims I need to go to the Google Health app to reconnect my tracking device and links to App Store to get Google health app. Google health app claims that I need to do this in the "partner app" (aka vitality app)! It just sends me round in circles with literally no way to reconnect, because both apps put the connection responsibility on the other party and neither provides any buttons or actions. They both just provide complicated text instructions which are either generated by AI or written by someone as an afterthought and without testing as it's actually impossible to follow these steps, because neither app allows relinking in any way. I'm tech savvy but this is driving me nuts as it's bad user experience and impossible situation. All this is making my device useless but it's not the first time Google is making something obsolete by design. The only thing is i want to be able to use a device i own.

I was told that with the latest update data would transfer automatically to my Apple Health app. I was looking forward to this, since I dislike the Google Health interface and hoped not to have to use it in future. Despite following suggested troubleshooting to the letter, deleting and reinstalling both apps and triple checking all links and permissions, I find data transfer still sluggish at best, and occasionally non functional. I guess I’ll just have to give up on what was once Fitbit, and buy a Garmin tracker.

I recently switched from an Apple Watch to the Fitbit Air and Google Health. I wanted something discreet that I could wear without constant notifications and distractions, that tracked all the metrics I’m interested in and, most importantly, didn’t need charging every other day. For the most part, the Fitbit Air delivers on that promise. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work properly on my tattooed arm, which is disappointing. :( What excited me most about moving to Google Health was the prospect of having everything in one place: health data, training plans, workout tracking and calorie tracking, rather than having to juggle multiple apps. My Fitbit came with three months of Google Health Premium, so I’ve been giving the whole ecosystem a fair chance. On the surface, I like it. There’s plenty of data to explore, and I enjoy the insights it provides, even if certain metrics, like Resilience, seem completely impossible to move! However, I’ve noticed some significant differences compared with my Apple Watch. My resting heart rate, previously in the low-to-mid 50s, is now showing in the low-to-mid 60s, while my HRV has dropped from consistently being in the 100s to somewhere between 50 and 80. I appreciate that different devices can use different algorithms, but it does leave me questioning which readings are the most accurate. The user interface is another disappointment. For a company like Google, the overall experience feels surprisingly basic, uninspiring and lacking in polish. When you compare it with apps such as Athlytic, which offer a far more refined and exciting interface and a better presentation of health data at a much lower subscription cost, it’s difficult to understand why Google’s offering feels so underwhelming. My biggest disappointment, however, is the workout tracking. Quite frankly, it feels like very little effort has gone into this part of the experience. I’ve built my own workout splits within the app and saved them for easy access, but the functionality is incredibly unreliable. Workouts regularly load incorrectly, exercises get rearranged, rest periods disappear, and previously lifted weights are forgotten. This makes tracking progress and implementing progressive overload far more difficult than it should be. Making changes to a workout midway through is also unnecessarily restrictive. You can’t simply edit the exercises already listed; you have to navigate to the end of the workout to add more. There’s also no audible notification when a rest period ends, assuming the app hasn’t deleted the rest period in the first place! These are basic features that other fitness apps have been getting right for years. It’s genuinely frustrating that Google, with all its resources, has delivered something that feels so poorly thought out in this area. Ultimately, I wanted an integrated ecosystem that made tracking my health and fitness simpler, more convenient and more reliable. Instead, the workout functionality has become a source of frustration, and the overall experience hasn’t lived up to expectations. I’m seriously considering cancelling my Premium subscription once the free trial ends and returning to my previous setup, which was considerably more reliable and enjoyable. Come on, Google. The potential is there, but the execution needs serious work. Sort it out!

NO SpO2 for nearly 3 weeks!!! Please fix this…..