Public Preview gives you early access to the latest Fitbit app features before they're made broadly available. Participants can try new or updated features and give feedback so that Google can continue to make improvements before the features are released to everyone.
- In the Public Preview version, some existing features may work differently or be unavailable, at least temporarily. If you encounter a missing feature or experience difficulties, refer to the Current Features Status list or send feedback in the app.
- Preview features can also change over time and may not appear in the final release.
- You can switch between the publicly available Fitbit app and the preview version anytime, without leaving the Public Preview.
Join and leave Public Preview
If spots are available and you meet the below eligibility requirements, you can join Public Preview. After you’ve joined Public Preview, you can switch back and forth between the preview version of the app and the publicly available Fitbit app. You can leave Public Preview anytime. Eligibility criteria may change over time without prior notice. Eligibility criteria may differ for features in the Public and Preview versions of the app.
To be eligible to join Public Preview, you must:
- Have an active paid or trial Fitbit Premium subscription.
- Use the Fitbit app with version 4.55 or higher.
- Use an Android phone with Android 11 or higher.
- Be located in the United States.
- Use English for both the Fitbit app and your phone.
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Use your Google Account to sign in to the Fitbit app.
- Use one of the following devices:
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Important: Fitbit’s Public Preview features use AI to deliver personalized experiences. To join Public Preview and use these new features, you’ll be required to opt-in to advanced AI personalized insights. Your participation in Public Preview is optional.
- Open the Fitbit App and tap your profile in the top right corner.
- Tap Public Preview
Join Public Preview.
- Review the consents for advanced AI features to use your health and wellness data for personalized insights.
- Tap Agree & continue.
- Tap Save and continue.
- Tap Start exploring to access new features in Public Preview.
Important: Some features are only available in Public Preview, while others are only available in the publicly available Fitbit app. Your data won’t be deleted when you switch between these versions of the app.
To switch back and forth between Public Preview and the publicly available Fitbit app:
- Open the Fitbit app and tap your profile at the top right.
- Tap Public Preview
What happens when you switch between the Public Preview and Public versions of the app
- If you stop using the Public Preview version of the Fitbit app and switch back to the publicly available version, your information from Public Preview will only be processed for 30 days. After that, it will no longer be processed, but it won’t be automatically deleted.
- You can edit, delete, and export your data from the Fitbit app settings at any time.
- Your data will start being processed again if you go back to the Public Preview, and you won't need to give permission again.
- Some of your data may only be viewable in one version of the app and not the other.
Important: If you leave the Public Preview version, your data will stop being processed immediately. Any new information collected while you’re in the Public Preview won’t be deleted automatically and will continue to be stored. You can manage or delete your data using the app's privacy settings.
If you leave Public Preview, you lose access to all Public Preview features in the Fitbit app. Space in Public Preview is limited, but you may be able to rejoin later if there is space and you meet the eligibility requirements. If you don’t want to leave, you can switch back to the publicly available Fitbit app instead.
- Open the Fitbit app and tap your profile at the top right.
- Tap Public Preview
Features currently in Public Preview
Important: AI is an evolving technology and may sometimes provide inaccurate or inappropriate information that doesn’t represent Google’s views. These features aren’t intended to diagnose or treat any medical condition and should not be relied on for any medical purpose. If you have concerns about your health, please talk to a healthcare provider.
Public Preview features roll out gradually as they're ready, so they might not appear as soon as you join. To help improve the AI features in Public Preview, you can rate the performance of any feature with a thumbs up or down and share feedback.
For updates on new and updated features, visit the Current Features Status list on the Fitbit Community.
Tip: To check what’s new, tap Public Preview
What’s new.
Your personal health coach built with Gemini
Important: Your coach isn’t intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition and should not be relied on for any medical purpose.
The personal health coach uses your health data, including information from your paired Fitbit devices, profile, and third-party apps, to provide personalized, proactive guidance and insights. You can talk with your coach, ask questions, and get advice to help you reach your customized wellness goals. Your coach automatically saves information you share as Coach Notes, then uses those notes to give you more tailored guidance and insights over time.
Your coach starts with a conversation about your goals, your challenges and where you are with your health journey.
- Once you've joined Public Preview, open the Fitbit app and tap Continue.
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Answer the coach’s questions about your goals, challenges, and more.
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You can choose to provide information about health conditions or other lifestyle factors that may impact your health and wellness. This will help the coach provide personalized guidance that supports your overall wellness goals. The information you provide is stored in the conversation transcripts found under Ask Health
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Review the summary.
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Tap Continue to Setup a Workout plan to continue a chat with the coach to set up a personalized workout plan.
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Optional: You can also tap Explore the app to go to the home screen of the app.
Start a conversation with your coach from anywhere in the app by tapping Ask Coach . After you tap Ask Coach
, you can:
- Ask about your data
- Share changes in your routine
- Update your fitness plan
- Ask a question
Tap the log button to:
- Log activity
- Log weight
- Log body fat
- Log sleep
Important: Your coach is for informational purposes only. This feature is intended to support a healthy lifestyle and doesn’t provide a diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevention for any disease or condition. The information provided is not medical advice and should not be used as a substitute for consultation with a healthcare provider. Do not make changes to your medication, diet, fitness plan, or sleep schedule without first consulting your doctor.
Your coach can handle a wide range of general wellness questions. To help you get started or keep the conversation going, it also provides suggestions. You can ask about:
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Analysis of and insights into your personal health data
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Fitness stats
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“Tell me about my weekly steps.”
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“Is my fitness improving?”
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Health stats
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“What’s my resting heart rate trend in the past year?”
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Sleep patterns
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“How has my sleep been in the last month?”
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Coaching toward specific health or fitness goals
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“What can I do to increase my Cardio Load when working out?”
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“Replace today's upper-body workout with a 4-mile run.”
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In Conversation History you can easily access, review and resume your past conversations with your coach
To find your conversation history:
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In the Fitbit app, tap coach
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Under “History”, find your conversations.
Tip: To show more conversations, tap Show more .
To delete a specific conversation and interaction:
Important: If you delete a conversation, it won’t delete the Coach Notes you created during the conversation.
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Find the conversation in your history.
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Tap More
To delete all of your conversation history data and interactions:
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In the Fitbit app, tap your profile picture
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Tap Manage data and privacy
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Navigate to Coach activity.
- Tap Conversations
Your coach automatically saves information during conversations as Coach Notes. For example, your exercise preferences (bodyweight vs. weights), past injuries, or your favorite exercises. This conversation memory is used to create personalized insights, summaries and also workout plans.
Review your Coach Notes:
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In the Fitbit app, tap the Health tab
To erase all of your Coach Note history data and interactions:
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In the Fitbit app, tap the Health tab
- Tap More
Important: Coach Notes helps personalize your coaching experience by capturing useful information from conversations, which may include sensitive and personal details. At any point you can delete any coach notes and conversations that you no longer want your coach to use for personalization.
If you use your coach, Fitbit will use your historical and future health and wellness data to generate personalized insights. This includes:
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Data the Fitbit app collects, like data from devices you have paired.
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Activity and exercise (like steps, distance, energy burned, weekly cardio load, heart rate, and exercise history details)
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Sleep (like sleep duration, sleep schedule, and sleep stages)
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Body and health metrics (like weight, body fat, heart rate variability, breathing rate, skin temperature, and SpO2)
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Your Fitbit profile info, like your name, age, height, weight, and sex.
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Your interactions with Fitbit, including data entered or uploaded, conversations with the Coach, and Coach Notes.
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Activity, sleep, body, and health metrics from third-party apps you’ve linked.
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Inputs that you manually log in the app or share with the coach, and goals you set.
Your personal health coach in the Fitbit app is built with Gemini models, but is not the same as the Gemini app. The key difference lies in access to your personal data.
Your coach can access your health metrics, goals, workout history, sleep, daily activity, and Coach Notes to create and adapt a personalized fitness plan. Gemini can't access this information directly, so any plan it creates will be generic, based only on information you provide.
Your conversations with Fitbit’s AI features are private. Human review of conversation data is limited to two specific circumstances, and used only to help improve and troubleshoot these experimental features:
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If you submit feedback on a specific conversation, human reviewers may review the conversation to understand the issue and improve the feature’s quality.
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If you provide separate, explicit consent for your data to be used for research and development, with steps taken to remove personally identifiable information (PII). This is optional.
If you submit feedback, trained reviewers may read, annotate, and process the specific conversation. They may also review associated Fitbit health and wellness data, activity logs related to that interaction, and basic app information. Please don’t enter sensitive or confidential information you wouldn't want a reviewer to see.
AI interactions in the Fitbit app are not used for training generative models unless you provide separate, explicit consent for your data to be used for research and development.
Tip: Some notifications from your coach may include health and wellness data. You can turn these notifications off at any time.
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Tap your profile picture
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Tap Push notifications.
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Navigate to Coaching.
- Turn on or off push notifications from your coach.
Explore the redesigned Fitbit app
When you use Public Preview, you'll get to try a redesigned Fitbit app. We’ve made it easier to find what you’re looking for, so you can quickly find and track your progress towards your sleep, fitness, and health objectives. You can review your data and take action by using the four tabs at the bottom of your screen: Today, Fitness, Sleep, and Health.
The Today tab in the Fitbit app is where your coach reaches out to you with helpful insights and guidance.
- Focus Metrics: Quick access to the metrics you care about most such as steps, weekly cardio load, readiness, and sleep.
- Personalized insights: Get personalized insights that adapt to you and the time of day. In the morning, you’ll get an analysis of how well you slept or how ready you are for physical activity. After a workout, you’ll get a breakdown of your performance and tips for how to improve. In the evening, you’ll find info about how your body responded to the day’s activities.
To customize your metrics:
- On the Today tab
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- Select one of the displayed metrics you want to replace.
- Find the metric you want to add and tap Add.
- Tap Save.
The Fitness tab is home to the personalized weekly fitness plan that you create with your coach. It’s also where you can monitor your daily steps, track a variety of activities, and delve into comprehensive fitness metrics like weekly cardio load.
Important: This feature offers general guidance supporting your fitness journey. If you have cardiovascular, metabolic, or renal disease, or are unaccustomed to strenuous activity, consult a doctor before starting any Fitbit exercise program. You should consider seeking medical clearance before participating in any exercise program offered by the Fitbit Service.
Your coach assesses your past workouts, preferences, and conversations to create your personalized fitness coaching plan. Your plan is automatically updated each week, and includes targets for your key metrics. The customized workout suggestions and targets are generated by AI and are based on the information you provide. Workout plans may not fully integrate your past workouts, preferences, conversations, personal health information, history, or real-time data.
- Set up a fitness plan when you join Public Preview and start using personal health coach, or anytime later by going to the Fitness tab
- Each day that you have a scheduled workout, you’ll find the recommended workout in the Today tab
and then “Upcoming Workouts” to find your planned workouts.
- As you’re completing a workout, check off your exercises one by one and log your reps, weights, and more on the mobile app. On some workouts you can also tap Track Live metrics to track and record your workout on your device.
- After completing your workout, tap Mark as done to link to a session recorded on your device, or log a session manually.
Your fitness coaching plan offers flexibility, which allows you to customize any workout to meet your specific requirements. To do this, go to the Fitness tab and tap Adjust Plan. Alternatively, you can select Adjust workout from an upcoming workout.
Once you do, a conversation window will appear. Type the adjustment you want to make, for example, "change today’s walk to a run." Your workout routine will be updated accordingly.
To manually reschedule your workouts:
- From the Fitness tab
- Touch and hold a workout you want to move.
- Drag the workout to a different day to reschedule it.
- You can also remove a workout from your plan, which will turn that day into a rest day.
You can also:
- Adjust exercise details: Tap on a workout, then tap on a specific exercise to change the number of sets, reps, weight, or duration for strength exercises, or goals and targets for cardio exercises.
- Adjust your exercise list:
- Reorder: Touch and hold an exercise, then drag it to a new position.
- Remove: Swipe left on an exercise.
- Add: Tap Add an exercise.
You can choose to adjust your overall fitness goal.
- In the Fitness tab
- A conversation will open, and you'll need to complete it to fully adjust and save your new goal in the app.
To leave fitness coaching plans, and stop receiving a weekly plan, you can delete your fitness coaching setup conversation.
- Open a conversation with the coach.
- Tap History
- Select any conversations referred to as “Plan set up with Coach” or “Adjust goal” and delete them.
- Tip: If you had set up a fitness plan in a different conversation, you will need to delete that conversation as well.
You may need to wait up to 30 minutes after this to see your plan for this week removed from your Fitness tab.
The Sleep tab offers detailed information about your sleep summary, sleep stages, and sleep score. You’ll also find insights from your coach about your recent sleep data.
Coaching gives you personalized tips to get your sleep on track and hit your sleep goals. It uses your sleep data to recommend ways to improve your sleep quality and consistency. These suggestions aren't meant to treat sleep disorders.
To get started, go to the Sleep tab to access your coaching spotlight, last night's sleep summary, and your main sleep metrics.
- You can tap Say more about my sleep to start a conversation with your personal health coach built with Gemini in the Sleep tab.
- Your coach will analyze your data based on your sleep metrics and provide detailed sleep insights and suggestions.
The Health tab is a central place for all your personal health and wellness information. This includes:
- Vitals: Previously called Health Metrics. Tracks vital health measurements like SpO2, heart rate variability, breathing rate, skin temperature, and resting heart rate from your Fitbit device or Pixel watch and notifies you if any metrics are outside of your personal range.
- Health: Includes heart metrics (heart rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability), weight, and body fat. Learn more about your health data.
- Detection & self screening: Get notifications when your heart rate goes above or below your threshold, get notified for signs of Afib with irregular rhythm notifications, or take an ECG to assess your heart rhythm and share the report with your healthcare provider. Learn more about heart rate notifications and the Fitbit ECG app.
- Personal Info: Age, gender, height, weight, and goals. Learn how to manage your Fitbit profile and how to track health and fitness goals with Fitbit.
- Labs & Research: Explore new, experimental capabilities and provide valuable feedback through Fitbit Labs. Learn more about available Fitbit Labs and eligibility.
Get notifications that alert you about:
Set up irregular rhythm notifications:
- From the Health tab
in the Fitbit app, under “Detection and self screening,” tap Irregular rhythm notifications.
- Tap Get Started.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to complete setting up.
- After the set up is complete, if a notification is triggered, it will appear at the top of the Today tab
- Tap View result or Dismiss.
Manage high and low heart rate notifications
High and low heart rate notifications are turned on when you pair a device. To customize your high and low heart rate thresholds:
- From the Health tab
- Tap More
Check your heart rhythm by taking an Electrocardiogram assessment on your compatible device.
To set up:
- From the Health tab
- Tip: The ECG option will only be available if you have a compatible device set up in the app.
- Tap Get Started.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to complete setting up.
- After the set up is complete, you can take an ECG assessment through the Fitbit ECG app on your compatible device. If the app is not downloaded, refer to Fitbit User Manuals for the next steps.
- Return to the Health tab
- Tap ECG
Tip: You can download, save, and share your ECG report:
- From the Health tab
- Tap a past result
- Tap Download PDF to save your result or tap Share to share it with your doctor.
Connect third-party apps and devices to Public Preview with Health Connect.
Important: Fitbit cannot guarantee the accuracy of data or algorithms from third-party
To connect third-party apps to Public Preview:
- Set up Health Connect in both the Fitbit Public Preview app as well as the third-party app.
- If you encounter issues with missing data, consult your third-party app to ensure that it is connected and sending data.
Certain data types that are available in the publicly available Fitbit app may not be available in the Public Preview version. You can find a full list on the Fitbit Community.
For more information, refer to: How do I use Health Connect in the Fitbit app?
Tip: Your permissions for the Fitbit app apply to the Health Connect public and preview experience, and can be edited or removed at any time.
To transition from the Health Connect preview to the public experience, disable the preview in ”Privacy Center” and then enable the public experience within the Fitbit app.
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In the Fitbit app, tap your profile picture
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Select a category (Activity, Sleep, Nutrition & Weight, Heart rate).
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Tap the data you want to edit and adjust as needed.
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In the Fitbit app, tap your profile picture
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Tap Manage data
Optional: From your profile picture in the Fitbit app, tap Your Data Delete.
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In the Fitbit app, tap your profile picture
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Tap Manage data and privacy
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Follow the instructions to export your selected data.
Share feedback
To help improve Public Preview features, submit your feedback anywhere you see a thumbs up or down. Google is committed to actively reviewing feedback, which will inform future feature and application functionality.
- Use the Thumbs Up
or Thumbs Down
from any tab to submit feedback.
- Follow the prompts to submit your feedback.
You may occasionally be asked to complete a short feedback survey in the app. To provide more feedback, you can opt in to receive research invitation emails. These may include longer surveys about Public Preview.
To turn on research invitations:
- Go to Account Settings.
- Tap Fitbit settings
- Turn on Research invitations.
Device safety questions
For guidance on safety-related questions about your device, refer to Safety & Regulatory Documentation and How do I use my watch or tracker safely?