When Google forced Fitbit users onto the redesigned Google Health app earlier this month, the transition was anything but smooth. Users immediately revolted over a cluttered interface, missing legacy tools, and an overly aggressive AI coach. Now, the company is attempting some serious damage control.

A newly published roadmap on the Google Health Community forum outlines exactly how Google plans to patch the cracks in its new fitness platform. But before diving into what is getting fixed, it is worth looking at what is permanently gone.

If you were holding out hope for the return of Fitbit’s beloved sleep animals or achievement badges, it is time to let them go. Those classic features have been scrapped entirely, and any legacy data tied to them will be wiped from Google’s servers on July 15. The dynamic calorie deficit tool is also severely crippled. Users are now stuck with static daily targets, forcing many to rely on clunky manual workarounds just to track a moving goal.

To stem the bleeding from the botched rollout, Google is pushing a wave of urgent bug fixes as early as this week. The platform has been plagued by data inconsistencies. Google claims it is fixing a highly visible issue that caused runs to be mislabeled as generic workouts, alongside repairing incomplete TCX data exports for exercises tracked with multiple devices.

Nutrition tracking is getting patched up as well. Users relying on third-party apps like MyFitnessPal and Cronometer should stop seeing duplicated food logs. Pixel Watch owners are also getting a fix for a frustrating bug that caused the app to over-report energy burned.

The update tackles vanishing sleep scores, data staleness between dashboard tiles, and app crashes tied to the friends and family settings.

Apart from this, Google is also tweaking its new AI coach. The assistant currently has a habit of over-analyzing minor activities. No one needs an AI-generated pep talk for a five-minute walk to the mailbox. The upcoming update will rein in the commentary and give users more authority over what the coach remembers.

The notoriously messy Google Health UI is getting a slight revamp as well. Google is promising better customization options for the Today and Health dashboards, which should help users hide some of that jarring, wasted white space.

Some stripped features are walking back from the dead, but they will take time. After admitting that its new flexible fitness goals missed the mark, Google says structured weekly schedules will return later this year. The hourly activity tracker is also confirmed to make a comeback, as we reported yesterday, though there is no hard date attached to it yet.

The full list of improvements and fixes that are planned is below. You can click/tap on the labels to expand them for more details:

Exercise Tracking

Bug Fixes

Correctly label runs that were incorrectly labeled as general workouts for some users (rolling out this week).
Add splits to run summaries (rolling out this week).
Improve load time and discoverability for maps on exercise summaries.
Address incomplete data in TCX exports for exercises tracked using Fitbit Air and connected GPS and for exercises tracked using multiple devices or apps connected to Google Health.

Improvements

Improve how the app responds while live tracking a Fitbit Air exercise in the event of lost connectivity.
Address metric inconsistency when tracking an exercise with multiple devices connected to the Google Health app.
Continue to improve the number of exercises that Fitbit Air automatically detects.

Nutrition and Calorie Tracking

Bug Fixes

Prevent log duplication when the same third-party app is connected via Health Connect and Google Health directly.
Ensure logs from MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, and LoseIt have appropriate meal types (not Other).
Address over-reporting of energy burned for Pixel Watch users so energy burned is counted correctly.

Improvements

Add custom food viewing, creation, and logging.
Improve goal-setting and progress tracking.
Add more deletion capabilities so you can curate and manage your logs more granularly and easily.
Include the name of the third-party source to detailed food log views, not just summary views.

Daily Activity

Improvements

Add charts for hourly step goals, both in the Today and Health tabs.

Sleep

Bug Fixes

Address missing Sleep Scores in parts of the app for some users.

Improvements

Add a 24-hour total sleep view so you can see your main sleep and naps together.
Make naps easier to find so you can view them for today or for previous days.
Update the Restlessness bar so you can view it closer to the Awake bar, along with improving minor awake moments detection.
Add deletion options for sleep sessions.

Google Health Coach

Improvements to Coach Messages

Make messages more concise without sacrificing helpful detail.
Include more visuals like charts, maps, and glanceable stats in messages.
Tune which activities warrant a message — expect less commentary on brief walks.

Improvements to Ask Coach

Ask for your intent more frequently before responding when more detail would help.
Reduce references to less timely or important information.
Better recall of guiding instructions such as “Stop mentioning…”, “Forget that I…”, “I am no longer…”.
Reduce error outs or unnecessary non-answers.
Add support for deleting logs via Ask Coach.
Add support for logging core body temperature via Ask Coach.
Include fat type, sodium, and fiber measurements in food items logged via Ask Coach.

Improvements to Fitness Plans

Bringing back weekly structured schedules later this year is on the roadmap.
Continue to improve quality, discoverability, and execution of coach-generated workouts.

Metric Views

Bug Fixes

Address issues with data staleness and inconsistency between tiles on the Today and Health tabs and fuller metric views.

Improvements

Make it easier to customize your Today and Health dashboards — re-arrange, add, or remove metrics.

Sharing Your Data

Bug Fixes

Address app crash when trying to access friends and family via settings in certain cases.

Improvements

Add support for sharing data back to Apple Health.
Enable sharing of medical records with Smart Health Links.
Enable use of tools like CLIs and other AI skills on top of your data.

Account Migration and Support

Improvements

In June, you’ll be able to delete child accounts to unblock your own account migration without needing to migrate or graduate the child account first.

With this, it seems like Google is asking its frustrated user base for a little grace while it irons out the new app that it forced upon everyone. And by the looks of it, the company is for sure taking a lot of the feedback seriously.

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