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It’s only been a little over a month now since Google announced that the Fitbit app was becoming Google Health, ready to support the new Fitbit Air and deliver personalized advice through the Google Health Coach. Google’s not about to let those gains go to waste, and it’s keeping that momentum going with a new Google Health 5.02 update for both iOS and Android.
This is actually the second big update we’ve already seen land since the rebranding, with Health 5.01 arriving back at the start of June. Now Google shares its latest Health improvements in a fresh community post.
Not only has Google manage to pack quite a bit into this update, but the company also shares that this is just a taste of what’s coming, and that more updates should be on the way in the next few weeks.
A good night’s sleep is vital to operating at your peak — but there’s also a whole lot to be said for a nice nap. With this release, Google’s making it easier to stay on top of you naps by splitting them off from your main Sleep Score view in a new tab. Users are also getting more control over their sleep data in general, with fixes for editing data, and the ability to fully delete sleep sessions.
Google’s also making it easier to keep on top of food stats with changes to the Today screen’s Nutrition tile, tweaking how calories are displayed. You can just view more of your data right from the Today screen by hitting the pencil icon and choosing “Expanded view.”
We’re also seeing the return of finer-grained daily feedback with hourly activity coming to Today and Health views. And in addition to some of these outright new features, there’s also a lot of behind-the-scenes work to deal with some edge cases where users were running into bugs.
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