Overview
- Google began rolling out Google Health version 5.01 this week, delivering a targeted package of 16 confirmed fixes that aim to reverse several high‑priority regressions from the recent redesign.
- Nutrition tracking changes let users view and log previously created custom foods while Google plans a future update to let users create new custom foods, and the release fixes mislabelled imports from apps such as MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, and Lose It.
- Fitness and sleep fixes correct workout mislabels, restore missing run splits, improve GPS map loading, and return sleep scores to the Sleep tab, and an iOS bug that double‑counted steps when Apple Health and Google Mobile Track were both active is resolved.
- The update also remedies migration failures that blocked some Fitbit→Google account transfers, refreshes Today feed timing, speeds Friends & Family screens on iOS, and adds VoiceOver and TalkBack accessibility improvements.
- This patch is the first major remediation since Google rebranded the Fitbit app and launched Fitbit Air, and Google says more staged updates are coming to rebuild reliability and win back users who experienced pairing, migration, and feature gaps.