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Hey Google Health Community,

Changes are coming to Fitbit, and the biggest one yet is here.

The Google Health App 5.00 is starting to roll out to iOS and Android users today (and over the next week)! The most comprehensive way to track your health journey is here, and we couldn’t be more excited. Check out the Google Health Community for more information on what you can get with the Google Health app.

The new Google Health Coach has also arrived as part of the 5.00 app rollout, available with Google Health Premium! With Google Health Coach, you’ll get 24/7 personalized health and wellness coaching, proactive sleep insights, and fitness plans tailored just for you. Go to the Google Health Help Center to find out what the Health Coach gives you.

You can access all of this and more with the new Google Health App. If you’re an existing Fitbit app user and have automatic app updates on your phone, you’ll get the update once it arrives. Otherwise, you can download the latest version from the Google Play Store or the App Store.

The new Google Health App is geared with the latest features and technology that Google offers to help you start a new relationship with your health. To find out more, check out the Google Health Help Center.

Excited to explore the new app? Let us know what you think!

Your Google Health Community Team

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Hey Fitbit Community,

Imagine having a personal sleep expert who doesn't just give you a grade, but helps you better understand how to wake up feeling more refreshed. To help you reach your rest goals, we’re evolving the Sleep Score to work hand-in-hand with Coach’s insights.

While the Sleep Score has always provided a snapshot of your night, this update goes deeper. By combining advanced science with personalized guidance, we’re helping you with actionable advice that will help improve your sleep health.

What’s new?

Sleep Score has always been designed to reflect the quality of your night – but a single number can only tell part of the story.

This updated experience is designed to make the Sleep Score:

• More transparent and actionable: It shows you exactly which metrics contributed to your score, making it easier to see what you may want to focus on over time.
• More holistic: It assesses the full spectrum of your sleep quality, from falling into sound sleep to restlessness, or interruptions. Our updated algorithms now also unify your night into a single, continuous journey, providing a score intended to reflect how well you slept.

Instead of just seeing that your score changed, you can now get a clearer sense of how different aspects of your sleep contributed – and where you might want to focus your attention.

Note: Your Sleep Score on your device may not match the new Sleep Score you’re seeing in the app. This is a known issue that we’re planning to fix soon. In the meantime, the Sleep Score in your app is the most accurate.

See exactly what makes up your score

The updated Sleep experience is designed to make it easier to quickly understand what stood out about your sleep. You will no longer have to guess why your score changed – you can see exactly which part of your sleep impacted the result.

1. Total sleep duration: This makes up the majority of the score and represents how much time you were estimated to be asleep during your primary sleep window for the day. We consider any time that you were likely asleep to be part of your sleep duration.
2. Time to sound sleep: This is the time it takes from when you first appear to get to bed until the moment your body fully settles into Deep, REM, or a steady phase of Light sleep with a calm heart rate. Usually, the faster you settle in, the better you’ll feel.
3. Sound sleep: This is one of a few descriptions of how your sleep looked, reflecting the total amount of steady, undisturbed sleep you got. We add up all the moments during your sleep period where your body appears to be soundly asleep (Deep/REM/Light with low, steady HR).
4. Restlessness: The time you were likely asleep, but moving, stirring, or in a transitional/wake-like state. We add up all the very brief, minor wakeful moments that happen while you are asleep. We exclude longer, memorable awakenings that are less than five minutes. Reducing these "active" moments leads to a better score.
5. Interruptions: This is the total time you appeared fully awake during the night. We look for longer, likely memorable moments of wakefulness rather than tiny, natural stirs.
6. Full awakenings: This is the number of distinct, memorable times you woke up for at least five minutes. Fewer interruptions lead to a better Sleep Score, with zero being the ideal.

Usually, your awake time and the number of awakenings are grouped together under Interruptions.

We’ll split this into separate metrics – interruptions and full awakenings – if one specifically falls outside of your typical range.

Fitbit Premium users can turn data into a plan(1)

A score is only useful if you know how to move the needle. Your new experience includes Personalized Insights and guidance from the Coach (available with a Premium membership) to help you target specific habits:

• Targeted insights: If your "Time to Sound Sleep" is consistently high, your app won't just show you a graph, you’ll also receive an insight suggesting changes to your wind-down routine – like putting screens away 30 minutes earlier or trying a guided breathing exercise.
• Guidance from the Coach: When you’re looking at your score and wondering "Why is this lower than yesterday?", you can turn to the coach. For example, the coach might point out that a highly active day or a late-afternoon nap shifted your body's sleep requirements for the night.

Note: If you ask your Coach about your new Sleep Score, you may receive inaccurate details regarding your Sleep Score sub-metrics. This is a known issue, and we’re working to resolve it soon.

"We’ve all had those mornings where we wake up and just know we’ve had a great night’s sleep - it’s an ineffable feeling of satisfaction that a rigid formula can’t always capture.

To bridge that gap, we’ve evolved the Sleep Score to move away from a one-size-fits-all definition of 'healthy sleep' and toward an estimate of how well you slept.

Having thousands of users literally tell us how they felt they slept by completing scientifically validated surveys after waking up, we could task our cutting-edge machine-learning algorithms with sorting out how our metrics related to people’s general sleep perceptions.

We wanted to be able to passively capture this important dimension of sleep health, by acknowledging that you know good sleep when you've had it.

By taking into account sleep satisfaction we hope to round out how we promote healthy sleep practices, by incorporating the experience of sleep into a broader sleep health framework, one centered on regularly getting adequate amounts of high-quality, uninterrupted sleep at a biologically aligned time to feel and function your best while awake."

• Logan Schneider,
  Clinical Lead for Sleep Health, Google
  Adjunct Clinical Assoc Prof of Sleep Medicine @ Stanford
  Neurologist @ Stanford/VA Alzheimer's Research Center

What’s next?

Because of these updates to how the Sleep Score captures your unique sleep experience – including how we unify your sleep sessions together and account for perceived sleep quality – you might notice your score shift to a new baseline.

Think of this as a higher-definition view of your rest. By capturing a more detailed and complete picture of your night, your score now offers a more accurate reflection of your personal patterns. This shift allows Fitbit to go beyond simply tracking your sleep and start identifying the real habits that shape how rested you feel.

Because the most useful Sleep Score isn’t just one that tells you how you slept – it’s one that helps you truly understand the quality of your rest.

Disclaimers

Not intended for medical purposes. Sleep tracking features are not intended to diagnose or treat any medical conditions and should not be relied on for medical purposes. It is intended to provide information that can help you manage your well-being. Consult your health care professional before making changes regarding your health.

1. Requires Fitbit Premium subscription (sold separately), Fitbit app, and internet connection. Features subject to change; availability varies. Not intended for medical purposes. Gemini features work independently of Gemini apps. Check responses for accuracy; results may vary.

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Hey Fitbit Community,

Kickstart your fitness journey with the Google Pixel Watch 3 and its advanced health and fitness capabilities from Fitbit. Fitbit offers tools that help you not only track your workouts and fitness progress, but also understand how well your body is recovering. These tools: Readiness, Cardio Load, Target Load, and Training Status are personalized to you, your training, and your recovery. They assist in achieving fitness goals by providing guidance on your cardio exercise, recovery, and preventing overtraining symptoms like fatigue or injury.

Google Fitbit’s Readiness and Cardio training tools

• Readiness Score. An enhanced algorithm assessment of your body’s readiness using your heart rate variability, resting heart rate, and recent sleep to show how your body is recovering from the stressors of everyday life.
  • Heart Rate Variability. HRV measures the time between your heartbeats and is a key indicator of your nervous system's balance. Higher HRV is a signal of better readiness.
  • Resting Heart Rate. Measures your heart rate when you are well-rested and not engaging in physical activity. Everyone’s normal RHR will differ, with lower values typically associated with higher fitness. A sustained rise in RHR over a few days is generally associated with your body working harder to recover or fight illness, which may be an indicator to reduce training intensity.
  • Recent sleep. Measures your sleep debt - the accumulated difference between the amount of sleep you've gotten and the amount of sleep you need. If you've been experiencing poor sleep, your body's ability to recover and perform may be negatively impacted. By sleeping more, you can reduce your sleep debt and increase your readiness to exercise. These factors help determine how well the body is recovering. Balancing activity with recovery is a cornerstone of health, so Readiness Score will now be available to all Pixel Watch 3, as well as Pixel Watch 1 and 2 and Fitbit users with heart rate devices.

These updates will begin rolling out to Fitbit users with the latest app version (4.23 and up), providing access to updated Readiness scores with no subscription required. However, it may take some time for users to receive these updates.

• Cardio Load. A new feature that measures the overall stress on your cardiovascular system throughout the day, taking into account activities ranging from light tasks to peak effort. The Cardio Load metric is a modified Banister’s TRaining IMPulse (TRIMP) model that quantifies training load using an exponential weighting for higher intensities.

Cardio load tracks background activity data all day, not just during workouts. This includes light or more intense activity levels throughout the day and continuous tracking. In other words, you could accumulate cardio load with a brisk walk, or an intense interval run - the higher you get your HR, and the more time you sustain it, the more cardio load you will get.

• Target Cardio Load. Is a new feature that compares the last week of cardio load with the last month (often called Acute to Chronic Workload Ratio or ACWR) to give you a target range for your cardio load, personalized to your training and recovery. We have a Target load to inform how much you should take on - this folds in Readiness, but there are times Readiness is high and Target Load is low if there are signs the user is overloading over recent days.

Selecting “maintain cardio fitness” will adjust your target cardio load to be in line with your average cardio load in the past week. Selecting “improve cardio fitness” will adjust your target cardio load to be slightly more than your last week average, helping you improve fitness while minimizing risk of injury from sudden increases in activity.

• Training Status. An assessment of your accumulated cardio load over the last week compared to the last four weeks. Based on these comparisons, Training Status indicates if you are improving your fitness, maintaining fitness, or at risk of under or overtraining. For example, if you take on too much cardio load too quickly, Training Status will indicate you’re at risk of overtraining.

When you're overtrained, your body is constantly fighting to recover. Instead of improving your endurance and stamina, overtraining can lead to a decline in your cardiovascular performance. Conversely, periods of undertraining can reverse the gains you've made in your fitness.

Note: Like all heart rate tracking technologies, accuracy is affected by physiology, location of device, and your movements and activity.

Helpful links:

• For more information on your readiness score please visit What's my daily readiness score in the Fitbit app?
• For more information on cardio or target load please visit What are cardio load and target load?

The Google Fitbit Team

Pixel Watch 3 works with most phones running on Android 10.0 or newer. Requires Google Account, Google Pixel Watch app, and internet access. Some features require a Fitbit mobile app and/or paid subscription. Google apps and services and Fitbit Premium content and features are subject to change and are not available in all countries or languages. Google Pixel Watch is not compatible with Android (Go edition). See g.co/pixelwatch/specs for technical and device specifications.

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Hey Fitbit Community,

Get ready to personalize your child’s Fitbit Ace LTE with our new collection of accessory bands! We’re thrilled to unveil our special partnership with Minecraft for Fitbit Ace LTE. This band features iconic Minecraft elements, allowing your child to show off their love for building, exploring, and creating. It’s the perfect companion for every block-by-block adventure!

Check out the new lineup:

This new class of bands have both active and comfort bands - allowing you to choose between what’s best for your child, whether that is needing something a bit more swim-proof or something that delivers softer textures. All of these bands are also designed for easy attachment, so kids can swap out their bands in seconds to match their mood or outfit.

Get your child’s new favorite Minecraft band on Google Store or at participating retailers starting September 16th. Let new, stylish adventures begin!

Your Fitbit Community Team

© 2024 Mojang AB. All Rights Reserved. MINECRAFT, the MINECRAFT logo, the Creeper logo, Minecraft:Dungeons and the Mojang Studios logo are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

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Hey Fitbit Community,

New games? Check. New Noodles? Check. Fun progress tracking? You got it! We’re bringing some fresh fun into the Fitbit Arcade game collection with two new games, plus some much-awaited Noodle updates and feature improvements to help kids track their progress as they grow on their gamified fitness journey.

New games in the Fitbit Arcade

We’re dropping new game titles in the Fitbit Arcade to keep kids moving:

• Melvin the Mole: Go on a treasure-hunting adventure with Melvin. Explore fun locations on the map, walk to discover hidden treasures, and bring them back to Melvin's growing home collection.
• Spooky Sanctuary: Solve the mystery disappearance of Uncle Curly, meet new friends, and catch all the ghosts in different spooky environments as you walk throughout the day.

With the launch of these new game titles and the start of the April Family Quest, Fitbit Arcade is also adding notifications and new system rewards for milestones to help your kids track their progress as they level up their fitness journey.

Four new watch Noodles

To help kids track their move goal progress, four new Noodle watch faces are now available, now with the much-requested current date display. Kids can personalize their home screen with the date displayed in three new time styles: Simple, Classic, and Narrow.

Move goal progress and history

'Now kids can keep track of their Move Goal progress over time with a tap! The move score on their watch face allows your kids to check their activity history from the previous days.

Your feedback matters!

We’re always looking for ways to improve Ace LTE based on your feedback through the forums and in-product feedback.

Not seeing these updates?

1. Check that your Ace LTE is on the latest software: Season 5. You can see what season a watch is using under Daily Quests.
2. Updates to the Ace app begin today and will continue over the next few days. Check back in soon!

For more information on Fitbit Ace LTE, here are some additional resources:

• Play Fitbit Arcade games on your Fitbit Ace LTE
• Change your watch face Noodle

Your Fitbit Community Team

Google Account and Ace Pass data plan required. Ace Pass LTE services available in the US except in Alaska or US territories. Works with most phones running Android 11.0 or newer or iOS 15 or newer. Setup for users under 13 requires parent and child Google Accounts and parent’s use of Fitbit Ace app on parent’s compatible phone. See g.co/fitbitace/info. for more information. See g.co/fitbitace/info for more information.

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Hey Fitbit Community,

We're excited to share some updates rolling out to Fitbit Charge 6. Read on to discover what's new.

New clock faces

We heard you! Thanks to your feedback, the Fitbit Charge 6 now has three new clock faces to choose from—Axira, Geometric, and Momentum. They’re designed to provide you with more comprehensive data at a glance, and allow for quick access to key health and fitness metrics directly from your wrist.

Improved connectivity to fitness equipment

This update expands compatibility between Fitbit Charge 6 devices and exercise machines, allowing you to connect to a wider variety of equipment and see your real-time heart rate on display during your home or gym workouts. Learn more about sharing your heart rate with fitness equipment here.

Try these new features and tell us what you think by joining the discussion. Subscribe to get the latest info on major updates, features and more.

This software update also includes general bug fixes and improvements for Charge 6, Inspire 3, Sense 2 and Versa 4.

Your Fitbit Community Team

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Hey Fitbit Community,

Get ready for more fun! We're rolling out fresh updates to the Fitbit Ace LTE to make the gamified fitness experience even more fun and engaging for kids, encouraging them to stay active.

Holiday season special Family Quest

Celebrate the holidays with Fitbit’s new special Family Quest - Jingle all the way.

Complete the designated monthly activity target to unlock special items and earn rewards along the way for your child’s Fitbit Ace LTE device.

New game in the Fitbit Arcade

Fitbit Arcade has introduced a new game - Frankenforge, where kids can build and battle monsters, powered by exercise.

For more information on Fitbit Ace LTE, here are some additional resources:

• Play Fitbit Arcade games on your Fitbit Ace LTE
• Manage Family Quests

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Hey Fitbit Community,

We have exciting news for Fitbit Family Quest Users! You can now seamlessly integrate steps tracked directly from connected fitness apps and trackers.

Previously, for the family members without an Ace LTE, Family Quest primarily relied on steps taken with your phone. This change now allows for more accurate and effortless participation. Now, every step you and your family members take throughout the day, whether it's tracked by a smartwatch or other fitness tracker, will automatically contribute to your collective Family Quest progress.

This means you can:

• Experience greater accuracy: Get a truer reflection of your family's combined activity levels.
• Focus on the fun: Spend less time worrying about steps syncing and more time enjoying the friendly competition and shared goals with your loved ones.

How to link your tracker

A new option in the Family Quest menu page will allow you to link a tracker.

Follow the steps in the setup flow or visit this help center article for more information.

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Hey Fitbit Community,

We're excited to announce some fresh new fun for Fitbit Ace LTE! These additions will encourage kids to keep moving as they continue their gamified fitness journey.

Check out Fitbit Arcade’s newest addition.

We’re dropping a bewitching new game title in the Fitbit Arcade to keep kids moving:

• Witch Academy

Swish and flick your way through spellbinding classes to help Sophie, a sophomore witch, master ancient magical runes. Will Sophie become the number 1 student?

Get gifting in Bit Valley

Friends in Bit Valley can now send each other gifts! Either tap on an item you’d like to gift from Bitpedia and select your friend or in Bit Valley select your friend and choose a gift! Your friend will be notified when it arrives in Bit Valley

Your feedback matters!

We’re always looking for ways to improve the Fitbit Ace LTE based on your feedback through the forums and in-product feedback.

Not seeing these updates?

1. Check that your Fitbit Ace LTE is on the latest software: Season 6. You can see what season a watch is using under Daily Quests.
2. Ace app updates are rolling out starting today and will continue over the next few days. Please check back soon!

For more information on Fitbit Ace LTE, here are some additional resources:

• Play Fitbit Arcade games on your Fitbit Ace LTE
• Add Friends on Fitbit Ace LTE

Your Fitbit Community Team

Google Account and Ace Pass data plan required. Ace Pass LTE services available in the US except in Alaska or US territories. Works with most phones running Android 11.0 or newer or iOS 15 or newer. Setup for users under 13 requires parent and child Google Accounts and parent’s use of Fitbit Ace app on parent’s compatible phone. See g.co/fitbitace/info. for more information. See g.co/fitbitace/info for more information.

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Hey Fitbit Community,

Starting on May 19th, the Fitbit app will become the Google Health app, a new, comprehensive way to track your health and wellness. It introduces a whole new bunch of features that help you on your health journey.

A Better App for Your Journey

The Fitbit app is rebranding to the Google Health app and it's more than just a name change. It’s a more integrated way to view your wellness. Don’t worry, all of your historical data, milestones, and health trends will still be there for you. You’ll also find changes all geared towards making your health journey more intuitive and actionable than ever before.

• See a holistic view of your health. Connect your wearable, favorite health & fitness apps, and even your personal health records (US only)(5) to see a more comprehensive view of your health information.
• Customize your health and wellness goals. Choose the health metrics you want to prioritize for your targets.
• Tracking made easy. Track your heart rate, HRV, cardio load, steps, distance, sleep score and much more with your favorite Fitbit or Pixel Watch.

Improve your overall health

This experience gets even better with Google Health Coach, personalized coaching built with Gemini. The coach is available with Google Health Premium, and we are offering a 3 month trial on us!(1)

The Google Health Coach includes:

• 24/7 personalized science-backed guidance for your whole health journey
• Proactive sleep insights to help improve your sleep
• Personalized and adaptive fitness plans tailored to your goals

The new Google Fitbit Air

And with these innovations, Google’s commitment to helping you with your fitness journey brings a new fitness tracker: the Google Fitbit Air!

Personalized , adaptive, and made just for you – make the new Google Health app and the Google Fitbit Air your new fitness partners and track your health metrics, from your sleep patterns, your heart rate, to your daily steps.

The Google Fitbit Air’s lightweight, stylish, and screenless design allows you to track your health without distractions. You’ll also get a three-month trial of Google Health Premium on us!(1)

With a Google Health Premium subscription, you get access to the Google Health Coach, your personalized partner in understanding your health insights.

Uninterrupted focus

Screenless, simple, and effortless. The Google Fitbit Air tracks your key health metrics passively - letting you receive insights when you want them, and silence them when you don’t.

• Our smallest, lightest, and thinnest continuous heart rate tracker(2).
• A long-lasting battery. The Google Fitbit Air can last up to 7 days before your next charge(3).
• Effortless movement tracking. The Google Fitbit Air features Automatic Activity Detection.

Personalize your look with the Google Fitbit Air

The Google Fitbit Air comes with a one size fits all woven band and a charging cable. You can easily change the band with one that’s more your style – material or color.

• Performance Loop Band ($34.99): Woven band available in multiple colors, offers micro-adjustability and stretch, providing comfort and the perfect fit for ease of wear day and night.
• Active Band ($34.99): Perfect for workouts and handling your daily activity with its waterproof silicone material.
• Elevated Modern Band ($49.99): A sleek premium band that matches your elevated style

Google Fitbit Air Special Edition Stephen Curry

For an even more sleek look, you can get the Google Fitbit Air Special Edition Stephen Curry, that blends legendary style with maximum performance. Rock the custom rye and gameball orange colorway with signature details such as his jersey number on the inside of the band. Plus, flex in and out of the gym with a band that’s sweat resistant and moisture wicking.

Available in the US for pre-order on May 7 and buy-now May 26

Price starts at $129.99.

Now available for pre-order

Starting May 7, the Google Fitbit Air is available for pre-order on the

Google Store

and select retailers. It will be available on shelf on May 26.

Enjoy 3 months of Google Health Premium on us. This trial will start once your Google Fitbit Air is shipped. For more information, go to

g.co/fitbit/terms

(1).

Price starts at $99.99.

Your Fitbit Community Team

Disclaimer

1

Offer ends 5/26/2027. New and returning users only; one trial per customer and not transferable. Requires valid method of payment and compatible device. Automatically renews for $12.98/month after trial; cancel at any time. More details at

g.co/fitbit/terms

.

2

Not intended for medical purposes. Like all heart rate tracking technologies, accuracy is affected by physiology, location of device, and your movements and activity. Consult your health care professional before making changes regarding your health.

3

Maximum battery life is approximate and is based on testing conducted in 2025 on pre-production hardware and software, using default settings with a median Fitbit Air user battery usage profile across features. Battery life depends on features enabled, usage, environment and many other factors. Use of certain features will decrease battery life. Actual battery life may be lower.See

g.co/fitbit/batteryfor

more information on battery life.

4

Features subject to change; availability and results vary. Not intended for medical purposes. Works independently of Gemini apps. Check responses for accuracy.

5 Google Health can use your personal health records to personalize coaching responses in the Google Health app to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle and to help you make lifestyle improvements. Google Health Coach is an artificial intelligence product. Artificial intelligence answers may be inaccurate or incomplete. Google Health is not intended to use your personal health records to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, or monitor any disease or condition. Consult your healthcare professional before making changes concerning your health. Personal Health Records stored with Google may not be comprehensive or accurate. Always consult your doctor for medical advice or for an official copy of your health records for clinical or government purposes.

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When we launched the personal health coach in Public Preview last year, our goal was to build a new kind of health and wellness experience — one that doesn't just track your health and wellness insights but understands them, and you. The feedback we received from more than 500,000 of our users has been invaluable in helping us deliver on our goal.

Key themes we heard from Preview users were:

• We launched without a full set of features so we could start getting feedback faster. Not surprisingly, people missed things like nutrition and cycle tracking.
• People asked us for more flexibility in their plans to better match their needs and circumstances and help performing the workouts.
• People had a hard time finding things or were left wanting a bit more customization or a better balance of insights from the coach with quick access to their favorite metrics.
• We erred on the side of a more verbose Coach and knew we needed to balance it. Feedback has helped us continue to refine this.
• People wanted better stitching of sleep sessions, support for naps, more accurate measurement, and sleep data sooner after waking up.

Since January, we’ve been busy expanding the experience, bringing new features and improving existing ones in response to the feedback.

• The most-requested missing features are now here: cycle tracking, nutrition and Mental Wellbeing have all been redesigned for the new Coach experience and rebuilt from the ground-up.
• Customization: While we heard that people like the timely insights the Coach can provide, we know that it’s still important to have your favorite metrics at a glance and be able to find what you want. So, we’ve enabled multiple pages and more metric options to customize your dashboards on the Today tab. You can choose the metrics that are most important to you to be front and center.
• Key metrics on the Health tab: And, on the Health tab, you can now customize your key metrics for quick access to what matters most to you, with a weekly lens, easily elevating access to anything from cycle tracking, nutrition, VO2 max or heart health.
• Improved sleep tracking: We improved accuracy to better detect naps and see sleep data sooner after waking up, and added a new Sleep Score that brings you more actionable insights and metrics like interruptions and restlessness.
• Medical record integration: We’ve added the ability to sync medical records in the U.S., and share them with the Coach to ask questions and learn more.
• Flexible fitness plans: Instead of a rigid or templatized workout schedule, your coach helps you identify weekly “targets” and a plan that is personalized to you and your goals. Each day, the Coach will make suggestions on what to focus on based on your readiness, your progress, and even the weather, to help achieve your weekly goals.
• Step-by-step workout guidance: We’ve added dynamic workouts, including rich visualizations and instructions in a streamlined layout for step-by-step exercise logging, featuring automatic progress tracking that evolves with you.
• More refined and accurate guidance: Chats are now more succinct and conversational, better reflecting real-life conversations with a coach.
• Multiple ways to log: You can now log your data via voice, images or documents – to log complex workouts, upload photos of gym whiteboards,snap photos of meals for nutritional analysis, or understand or summarize files, like PDFs or medical records.

We’re offering a more holistic view of your health

You can experience all of the above in the Google Health app. It’ll roll out as an app update to the existing Fitbit app, beginning May 19 - available to all iOS and Android Fitbit and Pixel Watch users. No need to transition to a new app, just update your existing one and all your data will still be there. Google Health Coach will be available globally to Google Health Premium (formerly Fitbit Premium) users aged at least 18 in certain countries in the coming weeks. You can learn more about the Google Health app and Google Health Coach:

We’re only getting started — we’ll continue to iterate and innovate the Coach experience based on your feedback.

We’re grounded in expertise and privacy

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Hey Fitbit Community,

Imagine having a personal sleep expert who doesn't just give you a grade, but helps you better understand how to wake up feeling more refreshed. To help you reach your rest goals, we’re evolving the Sleep Score to work hand-in-hand with Coach’s insights.

While the Sleep Score has always provided a snapshot of your night, this update goes deeper. By combining advanced science with personalized guidance, we’re helping you with actionable advice that will help improve your sleep health.

What’s new?

Sleep Score has always been designed to reflect the quality of your night – but a single number can only tell part of the story.

This updated experience is designed to make the Sleep Score:

• More transparent and actionable: It shows you exactly which metrics contributed to your score, making it easier to see what you may want to focus on over time.
• More holistic: It assesses the full spectrum of your sleep quality, from falling into sound sleep to restlessness, or interruptions. Our updated algorithms now also unify your night into a single, continuous journey, providing a score intended to reflect how well you slept.

Instead of just seeing that your score changed, you can now get a clearer sense of how different aspects of your sleep contributed – and where you might want to focus your attention.

Note: Your Sleep Score on your device may not match the new Sleep Score you’re seeing in the app. This is a known issue that we’re planning to fix soon. In the meantime, the Sleep Score in your app is the most accurate.

See exactly what makes up your score

The updated Sleep experience is designed to make it easier to quickly understand what stood out about your sleep. You will no longer have to guess why your score changed – you can see exactly which part of your sleep impacted the result.

1. Total sleep duration: This makes up the majority of the score and represents how much time you were estimated to be asleep during your primary sleep window for the day. We consider any time that you were likely asleep to be part of your sleep duration.
2. Time to sound sleep: This is the time it takes from when you first appear to get to bed until the moment your body fully settles into Deep, REM, or a steady phase of Light sleep with a calm heart rate. Usually, the faster you settle in, the better you’ll feel.
3. Sound sleep: This is one of a few descriptions of how your sleep looked, reflecting the total amount of steady, undisturbed sleep you got. We add up all the moments during your sleep period where your body appears to be soundly asleep (Deep/REM/Light with low, steady HR).
4. Restlessness: The time you were likely asleep, but moving, stirring, or in a transitional/wake-like state. We add up all the very brief, minor wakeful moments that happen while you are asleep. We exclude longer, memorable awakenings that are less than five minutes. Reducing these "active" moments leads to a better score.
5. Interruptions: This is the total time you appeared fully awake during the night. We look for longer, likely memorable moments of wakefulness rather than tiny, natural stirs.
6. Full awakenings: This is the number of distinct, memorable times you woke up for at least five minutes. Fewer interruptions lead to a better Sleep Score, with zero being the ideal.

Usually, your awake time and the number of awakenings are grouped together under Interruptions.

We’ll split this into separate metrics – interruptions and full awakenings – if one specifically falls outside of your typical range.

Fitbit Premium users can turn data into a plan(1)

A score is only useful if you know how to move the needle. Your new experience includes Personalized Insights and guidance from the Coach (available with a Premium membership) to help you target specific habits:

• Targeted insights: If your "Time to Sound Sleep" is consistently high, your app won't just show you a graph, you’ll also receive an insight suggesting changes to your wind-down routine – like putting screens away 30 minutes earlier or trying a guided breathing exercise.
• Guidance from the Coach: When you’re looking at your score and wondering "Why is this lower than yesterday?", you can turn to the coach. For example, the coach might point out that a highly active day or a late-afternoon nap shifted your body's sleep requirements for the night.

Note: If you ask your Coach about your new Sleep Score, you may receive inaccurate details regarding your Sleep Score sub-metrics. This is a known issue, and we’re working to resolve it soon.

"We’ve all had those mornings where we wake up and just know we’ve had a great night’s sleep - it’s an ineffable feeling of satisfaction that a rigid formula can’t always capture. To bridge that gap, we’ve evolved the Sleep Score to move away from a one-size-fits-all definition of 'healthy sleep' and toward an estimate of how well you slept. Having thousands of users literally tell us how they felt they slept by completing scientifically validated surveys after waking up, we could task our cutting-edge machine-learning algorithms with sorting out how our metrics related to people’s general sleep perceptions. We wanted to be able to passively capture this important dimension of sleep health, by acknowledging that you know good sleep when you've had it. By taking into account sleep satisfaction we hope to round out how we promote healthy sleep practices, by incorporating the experience of sleep into a broader sleep health framework, one centered on regularly getting adequate amounts of high-quality, uninterrupted sleep at a biologically aligned time to feel and function your best while awake." Logan Schneider, Clinical Lead for Sleep Health, Google Adjunct Clinical Assoc Prof of Sleep Medicine @ Stanford Neurologist @ Stanford/VA Alzheimer's Research Center

What’s next?

Because of these updates to how the Sleep Score captures your unique sleep experience – including how we unify your sleep sessions together and account for perceived sleep quality – you might notice your score shift to a new baseline.

Think of this as a higher-definition view of your rest. By capturing a more detailed and complete picture of your night, your score now offers a more accurate reflection of your personal patterns. This shift allows Fitbit to go beyond simply tracking your sleep and start identifying the real habits that shape how rested you feel.

Because the most useful Sleep Score isn’t just one that tells you how you slept – it’s one that helps you truly understand the quality of your rest.

Disclaimers

Not intended for medical purposes. Sleep tracking features are not intended to diagnose or treat any medical conditions and should not be relied on for medical purposes. It is intended to provide information that can help you manage your well-being. Consult your health care professional before making changes regarding your health.

1. Requires Fitbit Premium subscription (sold separately), Fitbit app, and internet connection. Features subject to change; availability varies. Not intended for medical purposes. Gemini features work independently of Gemini apps. Check responses for accuracy; results may vary.

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Hey Fitbit Community,

With the release of Fitbit’s Public Preview comes a lot of new features that can help you manage your health better. Now, we’ve made it easier for you to understand your own health data by having your medical records in one place (1).

If you’re in the US, you can also integrate the experience with Fitbit’s personal health coach in Public Preview. Your health coach can summarize your medical records and provide new wellness insights. You can check this blog post for more information on what the health coach can do for you.

Integrate your records

You can sync your medical records to Fitbit in three ways. You can set up a direct connection with your healthcare provider, automatically search for your healthcare providers after verifying your identity with CLEAR, or use Health Connect. Learn more about how to sync your health records to the Fitbit app.

Manage your data

Once you sync your records, you can also easily manage them in the Fitbit app. You can export, reconnect, disconnect, and delete records that you’ve already synced. Learn more about how to manage your health records in the Fitbit app.

To see what else Fitbit’s Public Preview brings to the table, go to the Help Center article.

Excited to understand your health with this new feature? Let us know what you think!

Your Fitbit Community Team

Disclaimer

1. The medical records feature is available to US users on Android. Fitbit's Personal Health Coach is for general wellness and for informational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent any medical condition and should not replace professional medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before making changes concerning your health.

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Hey Fitbit Community,

We know how much you value your health, especially when your period comes around. To help you out even more, we’re excited to announce new and improved cycle health features for Fitbit.

• Interactive calendar: Navigating through your calendar is now easier. You can now scroll vertically through the interactive calendar and tap to learn more about each individual cycle day.
• Easily log your symptoms: You can log or edit your period and your symptoms directly from the calendar.
• Third-party app integration: Some data about your cycle can be integrated with other tracking apps via Health Connect and Health Kit. These details include spotting, menstrual flow, and ovulation tests.
• AI-driven personalization: If you are a Premium user, you can ask your health coach anything about your cycle health and receive a personalized response

To see these features, you may need to force close and restart your app to ensure you are on the latest version. After restarting, you will see Cycle Health in the Health tab.

To learn more, go to the Fitbit Help Center.

Are you excited to use these new features? Let us know what you think!

Your Fitbit Community Team

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Hey Fitbit Community,

Public Preview’s personal health coach is now available to eligible users located in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Taiwan.

These regions join Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where the coach was already available.

It’s also available in the following additional languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish.

Make sure your Fitbit app is updated to version 4.67.
For the full list of supported countries and languages please visit the Fitbit Help Center.

Give us some feedback!

Your feedback can help us provide more features and fix any arising issues on the preview. You can provide feedback on the Fitbit Community board or in the Fitbit app. When sharing your experiences, please respect our Community Guidelines and be mindful that this community board is public and we recommend against sharing any personal health information that could identify you or is highly sensitive.

Here are some additional resources:

• Fitbit Help Center
• The Keyword

Your Fitbit Community Team

Access to Public Preview is restricted to eligible users. Eligibility criteria are subject to change without prior notice. Some existing features may work differently or be unavailable in Public Preview. Preview features can also change over time and may not appear in the final release. Features will be added incrementally and on a rolling basis, so your experience may vary as new functionalities are introduced.

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