Fitbit to become Google Health
I haven't seen this posted here, but on May 19, 2026 the Fitbit App will officially become the Google Health App. While the Fitbit trackers will remain, the app will be completely redesigned and features will be eliminated. Just to list some of the features being discontinued:
- Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 users only: Snore Detection will no longer be available.
- Estimated Oxygen Variation (EOV) will no longer be available.
- Sleep Profile will no longer be available.
- Skin Temperature minute-by-minute data will no longer be available.
- Blood glucose tracking will no longer allow you to add symptoms or remind you to check your levels.
- Setting calorie targets with "Food Plans" will no longer be supported.
- Resilience replaces Stress score. And will now be described as Optimal, Balanced, or Low, instead of a numerical value.
- You can’t choose a unique username or custom photo.
- You will no longer be able to send and receive direct messages and notifications from others.
- The Groups and Community Feed features are removed.
- Badges will no longer be supported. New badges won’t be generated, and your historical badges will be deleted.
- Connections to Lifescan devices will no longer be supported. However, you can still manually log your Glucose data.
- Data associated with features that are being removed will be available to download or delete until July 15th, at which time we’ll begin deleting the data from our systems.
Link to the full list of feature being removed: https://support.google.com/fitbit/answer/17068213?utm_source=transactional&utm_medium=email_crm&utm_campaign=GS206280&utm_term=fitbitcrm&utm_content=bodylink1&hl=en#zippy=%2Cfitness%2Csleep%2Chealth-wellness%2Csocial%2Cbadges-celebrations%2Cthird-party-connections
I personally have been wearing a Fitbit device since December 2014. Fitbit (and Tim Ferriss's book, The Four Hour Body) was my jumping off point into the quantified self life. I used to just simply wear my Fitbit, note how many steps I got and move on. Eventually, I started exporting the data from Fitbit into Excel files every couple of months. Then more frequently. My system was nearly destroyed when Google took over and changed the data export feature. I began documenting my data daily instead of monthly because I literally couldn't get my data out of the Fitbit app anymore.
Now in 2026, I still wear a Fitbit Charge 6 (my second version of the same device because they haven't made any new hardware releases in that line since 2023). I only rely on it to capture my daily steps and my sleep. Fitbit can't be used for anything else. Thankfully, those two features seem to be remaining, but I can imagine that other apps that use the API from Fitbit or Google Health Connect will see an impact when Fitbit is ended.