Google Health App Gets Massive Update With 13+ Changes
Key Points:
- Google has released a major update (v5.02) to the Google Health app on iOS and Android, introducing at least 13 notable changes focused on the Today Tab, Health Tab, fitness tracking, sleep, nutrition, and third-party app integrations.
- The update adds an expanded metrics view on the Today tab for easier access to more data without swiping, allows re-ordering of metrics by replacement, and improves the re-ordering of key metrics on Android with drag-and-drop functionality.
- Sleep tracking enhancements include a repositioned Restlessness bar near sleep stages, easier nap viewing on Android, full support for deleting sleep sessions, and fixes for editing sleep sessions.
- Fitness and activity tracking now features the return of hourly activity charts, alongside bug fixes for exercise summaries, while nutrition updates improve food search speed, show estimated macronutrients during logging, and update the Nutrition tile to display calorie intake and remaining calories.
- Users can now delete individual exercise sessions, food logs, and weight logs synced from partner apps directly within Google Health, with future plans to allow deletions from Health Connect or Apple Health without affecting those platforms.