{"id":716221,"date":"2026-06-05T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/716221\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T06:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:48:09","slug":"google-health-app-gets-massive-update-fixing-15-core-bugs-after-user-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/716221\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Health App Gets Massive Update Fixing 15+ Core Bugs After User Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Google Health app rollout hasn\u2019t been received well, but Google has at least committed to making big changes<\/a> over the next few weeks and months. Some have already arrived, while the rest are beginning to surface starting today with the first big Google Health app update.<\/p>\n

Google shared the update today for Google Health v5.01. Typically, with an update from 5.0 to 5.01, you might not expect much, but this thing is packed with changes.<\/p>\n

There are at least 16 important items to note for this latest Google Health app update, from nutrition upgrades to workout labels and maps loading, missing splits, and more.<\/p>\n

Google is now letting you view and log previously-created custom foods, improved handling of meal logs from 3rd party apps, and added default names when logs from Apple Health do not have them. <\/p>\n

They have improved map loading times for GPS exercises, fixed workout labels that were wrong, resolved an issue with run splits, and fixed a bug that was counting steps twice on iOS. <\/p>\n

For sleep, they are bringing a fix for the issue that was causing sleep scores to not show. And then for general updates, the Today tab on Android is seeing more up-to-date info, and several other iOS fixes are there.<\/p>\n

The full changelog can be found below.<\/p>\n

Nutrition Upgrades<\/p>\n

Custom Foods:\u00a0You can now view and log previously-created custom foods. Adding new custom foods is coming soon.<\/p>\n

Macronutrient Goal Guidance:\u00a0Added explanations and guidance for setting macronutrient goals.<\/p>\n

Third-Party Food Log Improvements:<\/p>\n

Fixed issue where some meal logs from MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, and LoseIt via Apple Health were labeled as \u201cOther\u201d meal type, instead of the correct type.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Improved handling of meal logs received from the same third-party app when that app is connected to Health Connect and to Google Health directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Added default food names when logs from Apple Health do not have a name.<\/p>\n

More Controls when Logging on iOS: Made it easier to switch between measurement units when logging meal items from search results.<\/p>\n

Chart Improvements: Nutrition and calories charts are now more consistent across the Today, Health, and nutrition deep dive views.<\/p>\n

Fitness and Activity Updates<\/p>\n

Corrected Workout Labels: Fixed issue where some runs were labeled as other types of workouts. New and previous runs will now be correctly labeled as runs.<\/p>\n

Missing Splits: Resolved issue where splits were missing from some run summaries.<\/p>\n

Map Loading: Improved loading states for maps from GPS exercises.<\/p>\n

Mobile Step Counting on iOS: Fixed issue where steps were counted twice for some users who had turned on both Apple Health and Mobile Track.<\/p>\n

Sleep Updates<\/p>\n

Sleep Score Reliability:\u00a0Resolved issues where the Sleep tab was not showing sleep scores for some users.<\/p>\n

General Updates<\/p>\n

Today Tab on Android: Fixed issue where some users were not seeing up-to-date information in the Today feed on Android. Updated defaults for Cardio Load supported devices for new users.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Account Migration on iOS: Fixed issue blocking some users from migrating their Fitbit account to Google account. If you start the migration flow again, you will be able to move to a Google account.<\/p>\n

Friends and Family on iOS: Fixed issue where Friends and Family screen was slow to load or unable to load for some users.<\/p>\n

VoiceOver on iOS:\u00a0Enhanced buttons and charts for VoiceOver and TalkBack.<\/p>\n

This first update is welcomed with all off the bugs that we saw on the first release of Google Health. Keep in mind that there is a long roadmap ahead for future fixes and improvements.<\/p>\n

\/\/ Google<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Google Health app rollout hasn\u2019t been received well, but Google has at least committed to making big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-716221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}