Google Revamps Health App With 24-Hour Sleep View After Fitbit User Backlash

11 articles · Updated · The Verge · May 27

Starting this week, Google is rolling out Health app changes after complaints over the Fitbit replacement, including easier dashboard customization, hourly step-goal charts and fixes for mislabeled runs.
The update also restores missing utility features: users will be able to create and log custom foods, while a new 24-hour sleep overview will combine main sleep and naps.
Google is reworking its AI coach, promising shorter messages, more charts and glanceable stats, and fewer alerts for minor activities such as brief walks.
In June, family account migration will also loosen a key bottleneck by letting parents delete child accounts without migrating them first.
The changes target the biggest sources of backlash against the new app—cluttered UI, missing Fitbit-era functions and AI summaries that some users said buried core health data.

Is Google's Health app update a genuine fix, or is its $2.1B Fitbit acquisition failing its users?

Is Google building a better fitness tool or just a more powerful personal data collection machine?

Can an AI coach replace the human connection of Fitbit's beloved community features that Google removed?