{"id":669878,"date":"2026-05-28T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669878\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:06:15","slug":"google-is-in-full-on-damage-control-over-its-new-health-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669878\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Is in Full-On Damage Control Over Its New Health App"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there\u2019s one thing you don\u2019t want to screw around with as a tech company, it\u2019s apps. Just ask Sonos<\/a>, which literally had to fire its CEO and start anew over fallout from a botched app update. Google apparently didn\u2019t get that memo because its recent shift from the Fitbit app to the newly christened Google Health<\/a> has been\u2026 rocky. People are crashing out over the recent app update, and it\u2019s not hard to see why.<\/p>\n

In case you missed it, Google recently retired its Fitbit app with the launch of the Fitbit Air<\/a>, a screenless fitness band and Whoop<\/a> competitor. In name and in design, the Fitbit app is no more, and Google Health is the new software du jour. That shift has ushered in quite a few changes, and to no one\u2019s surprise, several of those tweaks have to do with AI. Google Health, as people have learned, is AI-heavy, and therein lies a lot of the app rollout\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of stumbles, but here\u2019s a brief, incomplete list:<\/p>\n

Data points were straight-up wrong or inconsistent between different parts of the app Workouts were mislabeled (running versus general activity) Sleep scores were missing There was duplicative content AI summaries were sycophantic and overly verbose Random app crashes <\/p>\n

Not great. And to make matters worse, the general consensus seems to be that people don\u2019t find the visual update to the app to be overly appealing either, with complaints on Reddit<\/a> over the app being noisy and difficult to parse. I, admittedly, was never a user of the Fitbit app, so I don\u2019t have the same context, but here\u2019s a comparison of how the app used to look and how it looks now. I\u2019ll let you make up your own mind on which feels cleaner.<\/p>\n

\"GoogleOn the left is the Fitbit app, and on the right is the new Google Health app. \u00a9 Google <\/p>\n

Google, for its part, is already rushing to fix things, including all of the bugs that I outlined above, and it\u2019s detailed those fixes in a blog update<\/a> that was pushed out yesterday. The company says they should be rolling out in the week ahead.<\/p>\n

Whether that will sate people who were upset by the shift is another question entirely. As we\u2019ve seen with past app disasters like the Sonos one I mentioned previously, shifts like this can easily put a bad taste in people\u2019s mouths that isn\u2019t easy to get rid of, and it\u2019s not like people don\u2019t have a growing array of other health wearables to switch to.<\/p>\n

For now, Google Health users will have to buckle down, it appears, and hope that Google can get its post-Fitbit era ducks in a row. This is also not the first time that Google has experienced a messy app migration. There was similar backlash when Google tried transitioning Nest users from the Nest app to the Google Home app<\/a>. It took years before the Google Home app finally got feature parity<\/a> with the Nest app, and even then, Google still hasn\u2019t discontinued the Nest app for some reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there\u2019s one thing you don\u2019t want to screw around with as a tech company, it\u2019s apps. Just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,40470,168,97,74,5940],"class_list":["post-669878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-fitbit","tag-google","tag-health","tag-technology","tag-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}