Google is set to enhance the Fitbit experience for Android users with the rollout of a major app redesign, commencing October 28. This update invites users with a Fitbit Premium subscription and a compatible device—ranging from modern Fitbit trackers to smartwatches, including the Pixel Watch—to participate in the preview program. Central to this redesign is the integration of an AI-powered Fitbit Coach, promising a more personalized fitness journey.
However, it is essential to note that this launch represents merely a preview of what is to come. The app is still a work in progress, and users will quickly notice the absence of several key features that have yet to be incorporated into this initial release.
Google has acknowledged that numerous functionalities will not be available during this preview phase. While the company assures users that these features will be gradually introduced leading up to a full launch next year, the current list of omissions is substantial. The following features are notably missing:
- Menstrual health logging and tracking
- Nutrition and hydration logging and tracking
- Blood glucose logging and tracking
- Body temperature logging and tracking
- Stress Management Score, Body Responses, mindfulness days, and mood logging
- Manual editing of sleep sessions and data
- Heart rate zone analysis (including time in zones) in exercise summaries
- Sedentary time and hours
- Advanced running metrics for Pixel Watch 3 and 4 users
- Cardio Fitness Score
- Friends, groups, leaderboard, and messages
- Viewing your badges – both new ones and previous ones
- Sharing workouts to social media or with friends
- Exporting TCX files from workout summaries
- Switch to children’s view to see the data from one of your children’s accounts that you have added to your Fitbit account
- Syncing data from Aria Air to the Fitbit app. Users can enter their weight manually in the preview or revert to the standard experience for syncing.
Additionally, the redesigned app is currently unable to import exercise sessions, routes, and various health metrics—such as SpO2 and resting heart rate—from third-party applications via Health Connect.
Despite these limitations, users eager to explore the new interface can still participate in the preview. Google has made it clear that reverting to the previous app version is straightforward; simply select “Switch app version” in the settings menu.
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