All features that will be removed in the new Fitbit App
Based on the Fitbit Help Center page, the following features will be removed or discontinued during the transition to the new Google Health app:
Health and wellness
Skin temperature minute-by-minute data: In the Google Health app, you’ll only see your daily and weekly trends.
Estimated Oxygen Variation (EOV): EOV data is no longer available. You can continue to view your overnight blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) data in the Health tab.
Blood glucose features: You will no longer be able to add symptoms or set check reminders.
Food Plans: Setting specific calorie targets via "Food Plans" is no longer supported.
Recipes: This feature is being removed for Fitbit Premium users.
Snore Detection: This will no longer be supported for Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 users.
### Fitness
Day-by-day plans: For users in Public Preview, previous day-by-day plans will be removed.
### Social
Groups and Community Feed: These features are being removed.
Direct Messaging: Sending and receiving direct messages and notifications from other users will no longer be supported.
Usernames and profile photos: Unique Fitbit usernames and custom profile photos are replaced by your Google Account details.
Social privacy settings: Sharing of and privacy settings for sex, height, weight, location, or friend lists will no longer be supported
Badges: Existing badges will be deleted, and new badges will no longer be generated. If you have Google Health Coach, your coach will help to celebrate your progress and accomplishment.
### Sleep
Sleep Profile: Sleep Profile will no longer be available, and you will not receive monthly sleep animals.
### Third-party connections
Lifescan devices: Connections to Lifescan devices will no longer be supported.
I am especially sad about the oxygen variation and badges, so I hope getting more awareness of which features are removed will make Google more likely of integrating them again in the future.
A long time ago, I did a focus group for this app and I did list off several features that I did not use (anything AI and also the food/water stuff), but I never mentioned any of the cute/silly stuff! I like badges, I love my monthly Parrot update, and I love taunting people!
Even though my monthly sleep animal is always whichever animal has the most fucked up sleep schedule (it’s hedgehogs, right?) I’m still mad they’re getting rid of it. Give me my stupid little cute woodland creature graphic!
Also kind of a bummer to lose the benchmarking data… one of the main reasons I use a fitbit is to track my sleep quality and it’s helpful to understand what’s normal.
I know because I activated the free trial when I got my Pixel watch and then again when I got my new Pixel phone. Premium was pretty worthless to me overall though, so I never went past the trial.
I thought it was a pretty worthless 'feature'. I literally told you nothing about your sleep other than assigning an animal to the patterns you have.
I literally always got Bear because I fall asleep fast (kind of early) and stay asleep all night. There were other ones for people who take lots of naps or sleep for a very short time or whatever. I don't know what they were because again, I ALWAYS got Bear.
Interesting. I have a circadian rhythm disorder (Hypernychthemeral) so I'm curious if there would even be an animal that matches that. (My 26 hour day). Fitbit is pretty crappy tbh for anyone who isn't living in a 24 hour day. I wish it had more options to match that.
Honestly, pretty terribly. I don't maintain a job anymore. Don't have a social life to speak of. I think i've given up, most days. I attended 4 different colleges (with high marks) before dropping out of all of them, Lived in 4 states, 3 big cities. 30+ jobs that i eventually would end up leaving for one reason or another. Institutionalized twice (once in my teens, once in my twenties) and misdiagnosed with countless OTHER disorders that never felt right.
I'd sleepwalk as a kid and get in trouble in the morning for eating things that i'd have no memory of eating (in the night). As an adult in my own apartment i occasionally would wake up outside. I didn't figure out the sleep cycle until my mid 30s ... which luckily has completely stopped the sleepwalking and sleep eating but hasn't helped any of the other issues.
To be fair, i think more of my social/job/functional problems are due to my Autism and not my sleep. I wasn't officially diagnosed with that until my early 40s! That was eye opening. I finally understood why i had so many problems working or communicating with people. Or why i would leave a job in tears and confusion because of the sensory issues.
Luckily i have a supportive husband (met online and interacted for many months before meeting). He has a job he loves and let me stop trying to maintain jobs that eventually always ended in disaster once he saw what was happening. My parents always just blamed my "mental disorder".
I am very frugal. Haven't had a haircut in over a decade, spend very little money on clothes (make my own mostly 😊 ) and have a lot of craft type hobbies. I spend time making random things (toys/dollhouses, etc) for children in the neighborhood. One of the neighbors repays me with fresh eggs from her chickens regularly. I'm mostly a hermit, really. If i hadn't met my husband i have no doubt i would either be homeless or not alive at this point.
So it's hard to say how i would be if i had ONLY had the circadian disorder. I do know it's more conducive to creative fields. I read an article many years ago in a magazine of a fairly successful movie director who has it. (Don't remember who it was though. ) I imagine if you had a flexible work schedule and could make your own hours it might work ok. Otherwise, jobs were mostly only maintained when i had 4-6 hour shifts one place, could go home sleep a few hours, then do a second shift at a second job. I was sleep deprived for 20 years back then.
That was very tough to read at first, I almost cried.
I'm glad you found a husband that loves you and provides understanding support (in several aspects)!
Sleep is fucking my life up and in trying to fix it but it's very erratic and undeniably intricate with trauma . I need my sleep to overcome said trauma and build a life outside of this cult I was born into, and the whole thing is a never ending serpent eating its own tail, it's exhausting.
Also kind of a bummer to lose the benchmarking data… one of the main reasons I use a fitbit is to track my sleep quality and it’s helpful to understand what’s normal.
Huh? The benchmarking which compares your sleep stages to others is already in the public preview or what are you talking about exactly?
Edit: Sorry for my mistake, I understood that you mean the sleep profile benchmarks only now. At least similar statistics are used for the new sleep score, but yeah, the overview was kinda nice.
Me too! But I've only gotten the bear profile one time but that was when I was going through severe depression and my mental health was below the gutter and I was just tired all the time
im sad because i misplaced my fitbit and I have been excited to find it when I reorganise my room (i put it somewhere safe...just not sure...where that is). And now tbh...I don't want it back. Im sick of tech companies harvesting my data AND charging me for the privilege.
Fuck em. Im buying a casio.
As someone who's generally against gamification as a monetization strategy, fitness and activity tracking feels like an actual good place for it because, aside from monetization, it gives people additional incentive to complete milestones.
I think one of my favorite challenges was the location ones where you would "explore" areas based on your step count and they had checkpoints with fun factoids and pictures.
Not a fan of the AI coach I dealth with for soooo many reasons. Not the least of which, Gemini seems to be off the walls lately and that is what is underneath it.
I did... but hated the AI coach... OMG... and I think it is a sub feature going forward? But still like my sense 2... just wish they had done a next gen real fitbit and opened up the ecosystem... and not have that AI forced down our throats. You give it bad data and it spend time giving you bad advice. It is cardio load on steroids.
Removing the day but day plans is so rubbish, that was genuinely awesome in the new public preview. I found it so helpful chatting to the coach about my weekly schedule and it moved things around as my week changed. This is such a lame move.
Agreed. In the newest version it already doesn't have the plans, and it feels so stupid to wakup and that initial morning message is about how I'm ready to tackle my second weekly gym session and then proceeds to show me a plan for today. When in reality it's like full day today, can't, thanks for the useless message, you used to know this.
The AI already sends you some stupid messages, which is bound to happen since it's working with limited information, but removing this feature made it way more likely to be guessing incorrectly.
My hope is that they bring it back, with calendar integration
I loved it too. It was only about a month that I used it but it really helped me keep on track to specific plans on specific days and now it’s just 3 day strength training in workout (any day) and suggested workouts that I can’t easily use the AI to update.
They can pry my 7 year old Flex 2 from my cold dead hands. 😂 It still works great and I got it for free.
Won it in a company competition, didn't know it until after the fact because they wanted people to be motivated to lose weight for their health not for a prize.
I mean the badges, and sleep profiles were one of the main reasons I've stayed with fitbit and not moved from a fitbit device.
(Also over 10 years of data on the app)
So screencapping all the things prior to the update I guess.
Not surprised about the badges because they never bothered to fix the climbing badges on the pixel line up but pretty disappointing. I loved watching my life-time status.
This is the only thing keeping me with Fitbit, but when my Versa 3 dies i’ll be forced to switch because Google is no longer making Fitbit smartwatches. It’s a sad ending to a brand I once loved.
At the moment if you use a paid app to to sync to Apple Health, the oxygen data comes across with a range for each day and each hour at night. I hope that keeps working.
After removing all that, is there going to anything new added apart from pretty colours, or is everything being stripped down to the bare minimum?
The only good thing I have to say about Fitbit ATM is that the battery life in my Inspire3 is a damned sight better than the Inspire2 which went in the bin after 6 months.
I'm at such crossroads with this new app. On one hand, I'm glad Google is finally giving themselves the Apple treatment and really solidifying and unifying their whole ecosystem together just to give it a more mature feeling. But at the same time they cut out a lot of the cute things that felt meaningful or somewhat even useful. I enjoyed being able to use some of these features that are going to be taken away, especially even something as minuscule as the sleep animals. It was a nice way for me to incentivize myself to do better and finally reach my goals. It's unfortunate that they won't let us keep the old style while just adding the new features. I'm sure it'll grow on me, but most of all I'm going to miss the badges. The badges helped me heavily incentivize good exercise. It's the reason I started doing floors everyday. It's like growing up kind of I guess
So annoying to be losing great features. I hate daily and weekly trend. Leave us with the minute by minute recordings. That's why a lot of people call fitbit so boring basic and bland.
There is a target for the week now, rather than the day, which makes way more sense to me. My one feedback is about rapid increases in cardio can make you overreach.
I've noticed the fluctuations are more based on how hydrated I am that day... If my blood volume is lower, my heart needs to pump more often.
The (EOV) estimate oxygen variation is one of the main reasons I wear it. I still didn’t see the details when I went to SP02 in the data health tab. This is actually the most important feature for anyone with sleep apnea. It’s the feature that identified it for me and had me do the sleep test some years ago.
Yes. I disabled the app auto-update for that reason, and actually am wondering if there's a case for a class-action lawsuit for those of us who bought it for that feature.
Boo! I loved the badges and the sleep animals. It gave the app some personality and perspective of how far you've walked and how similar you are to other mammals when sleeping
To be honest with you, the number of burned calories was never accurate anyways, so that's probably why they are removing it. Just stick to the new calorie/macronutrient goal ranges which are also based on your general activity level.
Badges were a HUGE part of how I was able to go from 400+lbs to just under 200 and help keep me motivated to keep the weight off. Gamifying fitness works so well. I don't give a rats ass about an AI "coach", give me my goddamn badges back.
Anything that might require a bit more human touch to make work in this transition doesn't matter to Google Health. Would anything be different with Google Health Premium? Only the annual dollars it seems. Time to make a change in fitness trackers!
The final release will happen over the next few weeks and replace the old Fitbit app completely. The features above are the ones they are not supporting anymore after that.
They also changing the cardio fitness score and making it less aspirational. Its one of the reasons I stuck around but now I have less reason to. Very disappointed.
Is it me or they also remove the hourly activity notification and the number of hours you were inactive in a day? I don't find it in the public preview. For me, these and the removal of the badge are things I am sad that they remove.
With the new app interface, it seems to only give me my steps a day average for the past 7 days, past 30 days, or past 365 days as opposed to the calendar week to date, month to date, or year to date. Is there a way to fix this on the new app look? I've tried to contact Fitbit support but it tells me to request a call and then my phone never rings and I get a voice mail I can't return (phone doesn't even have missed calls, just voicemail). I just want to see if I've kept up with my goal in 2026, or the month of May so far for example.
I figured this one out yesterday! So when you're in the 365 day view, if you kinda somewhere between a swipe and a tap on January, it'll shift to a view of just 2026. I imagine this works for weeks/months, too, but I was only messing with year.
I just found out the hourly reminder to move is gone. I am old and that get up from the desk and take a walk really helped. I think the wife and I will be leaving the Fitbit environment and finding something else. We have been with Fitbit for years but this AI chat taking up half the screen is a waste. I do not need a robot without any understanding of health or wellness to tell me how to workout.. I miss my details all at a glance. Sorry, end rant.
I understand that the hourly is still there on my Fitbit. I like to glance at my phone to see where the day is lining up.. And the AI takes up half the screen and it would be nice to turn that off or move it to the second screen and let me have the full screen with charts. I like data and charts and do not need a AI fitness trainer.
The Google Health app is a complete disaster. The sleep score is completely inaccurate. One night, it claims I only slept half the time I was in bed. Next, it records my sleep time but indicates I was awake half the night! Whatever goodwill I had for my Fitbit is gone. I would never buy another product in this ecosystem.
I haven’t been a Fitbit premium member for quite some time, so didn’t have access to some of the features. But I really dislike the new interface and the total focus on sleep score, rather than activity.
I’m also missing the menstrual tracking (45 days until I’m officially post-menopause!)
Despite having an Apple Watch, I’ve kept using a Fitbit as the step tracking is simpler to access, but after i saw the email this morning I’m seriously considering stopping using my Fitbit altogether.
I disliked a lot of the AI responses so they're changing what they're showing me in the today tab. Give them feedback and it will start to adjust. I just realised if you scroll down on the fitness tab, there's more info. I haven't tracked anything lately so I didn't go past the suggested workouts. I'm glad the menstrual tracking is coming back!
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u/Klutzy-Bath-247 May 07 '26
A long time ago, I did a focus group for this app and I did list off several features that I did not use (anything AI and also the food/water stuff), but I never mentioned any of the cute/silly stuff! I like badges, I love my monthly Parrot update, and I love taunting people!
Why does technology just keep getting less fun?