{"id":252199,"date":"2026-05-22T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/google-health-starts-replacing-fitbit-app-on-ios-and-android\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:00:22","slug":"google-health-starts-replacing-fitbit-app-on-ios-and-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/google-health-starts-replacing-fitbit-app-on-ios-and-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Health Starts Replacing Fitbit App on iOS and Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/google\/336407\/google-health-starts-replacing-fitbit-app-on-ios-and-android\">Google Health Starts Replacing Fitbit App on iOS and Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/google\/336407\/google-health-starts-replacing-fitbit-app-on-ios-and-android\">https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/google\/336407\/google-health-starts-replacing-fitbit-app-on-ios-and-android<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 04:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thurrott.com\">www.thurrott.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Google Health app is starting to roll out on iOS and Android as a replacement for the existing Fitbit app. With the rebranding, Fitbit Premium is also becoming Google Health Premium, and subscribers in supported countries will get access to the new Gemini-powered Google Health Coach.<\/p>\n<p>Google announced this new Health app earlier this month alongside the $99.99 screenless Fitbit Air, which will start shipping on May 26. Google is also offering 3 months of Google Health Premium with the purchase of the new entry-level band. Google Health Premium is also included with Google AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Fitbit transition to Google Health, users connected to a Fitbit account in the Fitbit app will need to move their account to a Google account. Later this year, Google will also invite users of its separate Google Fit app to migrate to the new Google Health app.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Explore the Google Health app\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uXP7Vn7-wss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t have a Fitbit device or Pixel watch connected to the new Google Health app, you\u2019ll get a simplified bottom navigation bar with Today and Health tabs. The first one highlights key health metrics and recent activity, while the second one provides access to all health data.<\/p>\n<p>Google Health users with a connected Fitbit or Pixel watch will get two new tabs, Fitness and Sleep. With a Google Health Premium subscription, the new Google Health Coach is available from the floating \u201cAsk Coach\u201d button, which will start a conversation with the Gemini-powered assistant. The new coach can provide personalized health and wellness recommendations, fitness plans, and more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to use the personal health coach in the Google Health app\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J_ApXNMuweQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In my brief experience with the new Google Health app on my iPhone, I found that it\u2019s still a bit slow to sync data from Apple\u2019s Health app. I have yet to try a Fitbit device, but I\u2019m hoping to get my hands on the new Fitbit Air so I can share my experience with you.<\/p>\n<p>            &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/google\/336407\/google-health-starts-replacing-fitbit-app-on-ios-and-android\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Health Starts Replacing Fitbit App on iOS and Android https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/google\/336407\/google-health-starts-replacing-fitbit-app-on-ios-and-android Publish Date: 2026-05-22 04:48:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thurrott-assets.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Google-Health-App.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-252199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252201,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252199\/revisions\/252201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}