Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit back instead

Fitbit doesn’t exist anymore. In conjunction with the launch of the new Fitbit Air (which you can expect a full review of once you spend more time with it), Google has officially done just that It has been replaced by Google Healthlike Previously announcedand many of the responses we’ve seen so far are filled with confusion, frustration, and requests to restore the old app.

one mail On Reddit he addresses a common issue, saying: “I can’t even fill up my entire home screen. They only have two large widgets available and I can’t scroll down to see everything.” The landing page has a small section at the top that displays steps and some other basic stats, but part of the app’s home page is now reserved for recent activity updates and chat notes from Google’s AI-powered health coach.

The AI ​​didn’t have much to say to me, but for senior editor Richard Lawler, it started a conversation about the day’s plans that he wasn’t quite ready to do with a chatbot.

However, not everyone is bothered by the AI ​​bot, but rather by one person Comment“When I ask him to design a moderate workout using the gym equipment in my office, circuit style, I usually end up feeling great afterward.” Someone else She described it as a “very useful feature.” It shows how they were able to update their sleep history with a missed session by chatting with an AI bot.

last user “This GUI looks like something an 8-year-old could make,” he said, while someone else is making it. He complained“Why do I now have to scroll through AI paragraphs in each tab before I can actually see my activities and data? I don’t want or need to read platitudes about my 15-minute walk to the grocery store. I want to see my stats from my morning run.”

one mail In the Google Help Center he sums things up by saying, “This app is a huge disappointment and is a total drain on me to get minimal results. How can I go back to using what worked?!” Many others agreed with one answer Saying“It’s no longer a real fitness app.”

In Google’s blog post, the sample image shows a version of the Today screen with all the information and AI chat that we couldn’t show, but appeared for some users. nothing It seems to be any way To remove the Ask Coach / Activity window that takes up a large part of the screen, but from which the bot can be disabled Under Privacy controls for new app features.

Even though I knew the switch to Google Health was coming, I was still disoriented during the first few minutes after opening the app this morning.

If you want to see more stats and your health tracking data, you should either swipe left on the little top box on the Today page or go to the Health page. To find the rowing workout logs I had stored in the old Fitbit app, I had to go to Health, then go down to the Fitness section of Focus Zones, where my logs were viewable under Workout Days. In the old Fitbit app, I could see the Workout Days block just by scrolling down on the app’s main Today page.

according to Support pageIf you have a supported wearable device that’s connected, Google Health displays two additional tabs for Fitness and Sleep which make things easier, but before the redesign I didn’t need those. While Google Rishi Chandra He said Edge Earlier this month, Google Health will eventually support third-party wearables, my Nothing Watch Pro 3 is currently not enough to unlock those two additional tabs.