Fitbit

After the initial Public Preview in October, Google is bringing its Fitbit personal health coach preview to international Premium users.

Under Google, Fitbit has been moving away from its traditional standalone accounts, instead pushing users to sign in with their Google account. That will be mandatory this year, but the deadline has been pushed back.

I’m not really a huge fan of modern AI. For the past couple of years, it’s just been shoved into everything online, and usually not for the better. Google, though, has really hit its stride lately in finding incredible, out-of-the-box ways to use AI to just make things better, and there are a couple of key examples of this.

Besides the AI-powered coach, the Fitbit redesign introduces Material 3 Expressive to the Android app.

A widespread issue is causing the Fitbit app’s food log to simply not function, but a fix seems to be in the pipeline.

As the personal health coach preview gets underway, Fitbit Labs is testing more features: Unusual Trend Detection and Hypertension Study Lab.

Google is opening up access to the major Fitbit app redesign on Android this week, but there’s a long list of features not available in the preview release just yet.

As part of the Fitbit Coach preview, Google shared that it will be releasing “new Fitbit hardware” in 2026.

As previewed alongside the Pixel Watch 4 launch in August, Google will begin rolling out a Public Preview of Fitbit Coach “starting tomorrow and over the next week” in the US. The idea is to leverage AI and Gemini models to give you a personal coach, just like how athletes have a team around them providing support.

Google wants to use the Pixel Watch to identify signs of high blood pressure, and is readying a Fitbit Hypertension Study.

Google’s kid-focused Fitbit Ace LTE is getting a band refresh, with a selection of four new bands including one that brings a Minecraft theme to the smartwatch.

Ahead of the Gemini-powered Coach preview later this year, Fitbit app 4.50 is rolling out with a dark theme on Android and iOS. This is independent of the Material 3 Expressive redesign.

One of the big new announcements coming out of Google’s Pixel 10 launch this week was that the Fitbit app is about to get a massive redesign and, after spending some time playing around with it and getting an overview of all of the new features, I think Google is putting together something that’s going to be incredibly helpful, but bordering on information overload.

Google today announced a major update and redesign for the Fitbit app on your phone that adds a Gemini/AI-powered coach. It’s not exclusive to the Pixel Watch 4 and will be available for all past generations, as well as Fitbit devices, with the preview starting in October.

In addition to a bigger Charge 6 and tracker/smartwatch updates last week, Fitbit detailed some improvements to sleep tracking.

Google is rolling out the latest updates for the Fitbit Versa 4, Sense 2, Inspire 3, and Charge 6, which sees the biggest updates today.

If you’ve woken up to check your Fitbit app this morning only to find data missing and your device unable to sync, you’re not alone as an outage is causing problems.

The modernization of the Fitbit app continues with a redesign of the device settings page for smartwatches and trackers.

Following the Personalized Sleep Schedule, Fitbit today is debuting a new round of Labs that users can preview, with Medical record navigator coming soon.

Google Assistant launched on the Sense and Versa smartwatches in 2020. Now, it’s shutting down.