Google is opening up access to the major Fitbit app redesign on Android this week, but there’s a long list of features not available in the preview release just yet.
Starting on October 28, the Fitbit app will start allowing users to join the preview program if they are using Android and have a Fitbit Premium subscription while also using a compatible Fitbit device – i.e. any modern Fitbit tracker, smartwatch, or Pixel Watch. The redesigned app focuses heavily on an AI-powered Fitbit Coach.
But this week’s launch is just a preview. In other words, it’s not at all finished, and that’s abundantly clear when you look at how many features are missing.
Google has confirmed that quite a few features will not be available in the redesigned Fitbit app during the preview period. Any missing features will be added with time ahead of next year’s wide launch, but there’s a pretty long list for the time being.
As it stands with the initial October release, the redesigned Fitbit app is missing the following features:
- Menstrual health logging and tracking
- Nutrition and hydration logging and tracking
- Blood glucose logging and tracking
- Body temperature logging and tracking
- Stress Management Score, Body Responses, mindfulness days, and mood logging
- Manual editing of sleep sessions and data
- Heart rate zone analysis (including time in zones) in exercise summaries
- Sedentary time and hours
- Advanced running metrics for Pixel Watch 3 and 4 users
- Cardio Fitness Score
- Friends, groups, leaderboard, and messages
- Viewing your badges – both new ones and previous ones
- Sharing workouts to social media or with friends
- Exporting TCX files from workout summaries
- Switch to children’s view to see the data from one of your children’s accounts that you have added to your Fitbit account
- Syncing data from Aria Air to the Fitbit app. You can enter your weight manually in Preview, or you can switch back to the standard experience to perform the sync.
There are also some missing pieces in Health Connect, with the redesigned Fitbit app unable to import exercise sessions and routes as well as health metrics (such as SpO2, resting heart rate, etc) from third-party apps.
The good news, though, is that you can still try out the preview even if you need these features. As Google mentions on a support page, switching back is as simple as tapping “Switch app version” in the settings.
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