Fitbit Air and Google Health get updates including blood pressure and insulin resistance trends
Google has updated its Fitbit Air and Google Health platforms to include enhanced activity tracking and new health monitoring features. Users can now track blood pressure and insulin resistance trends while benefiting from more accurate automatic workout detection.
Why it matters
These updates represent a shift toward proactive, data-driven personal health management integrated into wearable technology.
Google has announced updates to Fitbit Air and Google Health, aimed at making activity tracking smarter and health insights more helpful. These updates are added to already available features (more than 55) and fixes, including more customisation to Today tab, expanded focus metrics, improved Coach memory, deepened Apple Health integration.Fitbit Air gets better at spotting your workoutsFitbit Air’s automatic activity detection has been upgraded. It can now track more than 100 activities, up from 10 earlier. Google says the feature uses contextual reasoning, drawing on a user’s workout routines and past data, to work out what they are doing. According to the company, this makes activity detection nearly twice as accurate and cuts missed workouts by more than half.Health Guardian is coming to Fitbit AirLater this month, Health Guardian, Google’s suite of health and safety features, will also arrive on Fitbit Air for Google Health Premium subscribers.
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