Sleep Tracking Data Vanishes From the Watch, Not the Cloud
Pixel Watch owners, particularly those with the Pixel Watch 2, are reporting a disconcerting sleep-tracking bug: the watch claims there is “No recent data. Wear your watch to sleep” even after a full night of wear. Despite that warning, detailed sleep records still appear correctly inside the Fitbit phone app, suggesting the issue lies in how the watch displays or syncs data rather than in Fitbit’s underlying tracking. Restarting the watch has not reliably fixed the problem, leaving many users to rely solely on their phones each morning. As a temporary workaround, checking sleep metrics directly in the Fitbit app is currently the most reliable option. The glitch piles on top of earlier Fitbit-related issues with step counts, SpO2, skin temperature, and syncing, raising fresh concerns about the overall reliability of Pixel Watch sleep data and health tracking.
ECG App Not Working on the Wrist, With a Fix Promised
Another major health feature has stumbled: some Pixel Watch owners can no longer get the Google ECG app to open on their devices. Users say the app repeatedly fails to launch and instead shows a vague prompt to “Reopen the app and try again.” Reports span multiple generations of the watch, including Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4 units, undermining confidence in a tool meant to screen for signs of atrial fibrillation. The good news is that Google support has acknowledged the problem and says a fix is in the works. Until that arrives, affected owners are advised to keep both their watch and companion app fully updated in case a silent or staged rollout resolves the bug. For now, however, the ECG app not working leaves a significant gap in the Pixel Watch’s heart health capabilities.
Cycling Workouts Sometimes Don’t Save, Undermining Fitness Tracking
Cyclists are encountering another frustrating issue: completed bike rides occasionally never appear in the Fitbit app or on the Pixel Watch workout history. In many reports, cardio load and other internal metrics still increase, indicating the watch has recorded the effort, but the actual workout entry disappears once the user ends the session. One rider described a two-part commute where only the first, uninterrupted leg saved properly, while the stop-and-go second half with auto-pause enabled never showed up. Another Pixel Watch 4 owner said their ride ends on a “Congrats” summary screen that never fully loads, forcing them back to the home screen and leaving no trace of the workout in Fitbit or Strava. A Google product expert has suggested the root cause may be a synchronization error with Fitbit’s cloud, and recommended standard troubleshooting such as clearing Fitbit app data and re-syncing, though users say the bug remains intermittent and unpredictable.
Find My Phone Broken After Update, With Gemini as a Stopgap
Beyond health features, a recent update has broken one of the Pixel Watch’s most practical tools: the Find My Phone ring shortcut. Users report that, after installing the latest software, tapping the watch control to ring their phone no longer does anything. Some also say the Watch app on their phone now crashes immediately on launch, compounding the frustration. The timing and volume of complaints suggest the issue is directly tied to the recent update rather than isolated hardware failures. In the meantime, several users have discovered a surprising workaround: asking Gemini on the watch to “find my phone” still triggers the handset to ring for many people. Google has acknowledged the problem on community channels and confirmed that a fix is in development, but has not yet delivered an update, leaving owners dependent on voice commands until Find My Phone is restored.
What Google Needs to Fix Next—and How Users Can Cope
Taken together, the current wave of Pixel Watch bugs paints an unsettling picture. Sleep stats vanish from the watch face, the ECG app fails to open, cycling workouts intermittently refuse to save, and the Find My Phone shortcut stops working after an update. For users who bought into the Pixel Watch as a reliable health and productivity hub, these glitches erode trust more than any cosmetic flaw. In the short term, the best workarounds are checking sleep and workout history in the Fitbit app, using alternate apps or devices for critical heart checks, and relying on Gemini voice commands to locate a missing phone. Over the longer term, Google needs faster acknowledgment of Pixel Watch bugs, transparent timelines for fixes, and more robust testing of health and core utility features before pushing updates that can break them.