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Updated · 9to5Google · Jun 4
Google Fixes Pixel Watch ECG App, Drops Fitbit Branding in Wider Google Health Shift
Updated
Updated · 9to5Google · Jun 4

Google Fixes Pixel Watch ECG App, Drops Fitbit Branding in Wider Google Health Shift

3 articles · Updated · 9to5Google · Jun 4

Summary

  • Google is rolling out a Pixel Watch ECG app update that restores functionality for users who had seen the feature broken for weeks.
  • The refresh also replaces the old Fitbit ECG label with simply ECG and adds a new red icon designed to stand out among the watch’s health apps.
  • That branding change extends Google’s broader software transition on Pixel Watch, where Fitbit naming has already been removed from apps such as Exercise.
  • The update fits Google’s wider icon overhaul and Google Health rebrand, leaving no Fitbit branding on the software side of Pixel Watch.

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