What the New Google Health Roadmap Promises
The Google Health app is Google’s redesigned health and fitness hub that replaces much of the old Fitbit experience and bundles exercise, sleep, nutrition, and AI coaching into a single tracking platform. After a rocky rollout for long-time Fitbit users, Google has published a roadmap with more than 39 new Google Health app features and fixes, covering exercise tracking, daily activity, sleep, nutrition, and the Health Coach. These health app updates will roll out gradually, starting as soon as this week and continuing into the summer, rather than arriving in one big release. According to Android Authority, Google shared the list to “keep the spirit of the Public Preview going” and to show it is listening to feedback. For anyone moving from Fitbit to Google Health, the roadmap is meant to answer a simple question: will the new app match or exceed what was lost?
Exercise Tracking and Daily Activity: Fixing Accuracy First
A major focus of the roadmap is rebuilding trust in exercise and daily activity tracking. Google is correcting a bug that mislabeled some runs as general workouts and is adding run splits so runners can see detailed pacing data in summaries. Map loading in workout summaries is being sped up and made easier to find, while incomplete TCX exports for Fitbit Air, connected GPS, and multi-device sessions are being fixed so linked services receive full data. Google is also improving how the app behaves when a Fitbit Air workout loses connectivity and is targeting metric inconsistencies when multiple devices feed into Google Health at once. On the daily activity side, Google plans more detailed charts such as hourly step views, so the Google Fit redesign inside Health feels like a proper upgrade instead of a downgrade for step and movement tracking.
Nutrition, Calories, and Sleep: Closing Key Gaps
Nutrition and sleep were big pressure points for users comparing Fitbit to Google Health, and Google is trying to close those gaps quickly. For nutrition, the app will stop duplicate logs when the same service is connected through both Health Connect and Google Health, and it will fix meal types from MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, and LoseIt so they no longer appear as “Other.” A known issue that over-reported energy burned for Pixel Watch users is being corrected so calorie data aligns better with reality. Beyond bug fixes, Google is planning custom food viewing and creation, better goal-setting and progress tracking, clearer source labels on detailed food logs, and more ways to delete or edit entries. On the sleep side, updates include fixing missing Sleep Scores, adding a 24-hour view that includes naps, easier nap access, improved awake detection, and more flexible deletion of individual sleep sessions.
Health Coach, Schedules, and the Bigger Transition from Fitbit
The new Google Health Coach is also evolving as part of this roadmap. Google says Coach messages in the Today tab will become shorter and more visual, reducing the feeling of AI clutter that some users reported. Ask Coach is gaining better memory for preferences, fewer irrelevant responses, support for deleting old interactions, and the ability to log core body temperature. According to Android Authority, Google will also “bring back weekly structured schedules later this year,” a nod to popular Fitbit-style plans. Future updates include better dashboard customization, Apple Health sharing support, and improved child account migration tools, including a specific fix planned for June. Taken together, these moves signal that Google is not finished reshaping the Fitbit to Google Health transition. Instead, the company is treating the current app as a starting point, with user complaints driving the next waves of features and design changes.
