r/fitbit • u/Soggy-Clerk-9955 • 8d ago

Early reaction

My app updated overnight. Two things I’m not happy with early on:

  1. The app UI/design simply does not match the Fitbit UI/design. It feels like 2 separate products forced to play nice as opposed to 2 halves of the same whole.

  2. My app/Fitbit hallucinated 16000 steps for me overnight. Hopefully that’s just a Day 1 integration bug.

I’ll give it some time. But I really wish they had just rebranded the old app as Fitbit by Google instead of forcing Google Health on us. But as the goal was probably to force the millions of Fitbit users to start using their AI services I suppose that was never going to happen.

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u/mistyayn 8d ago

But as the goal was probably to force the millions of Fitbit users to start using their AI services I suppose that was never going to happen.

Gotta be able to justify the cost of all those data centers.

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u/Soggy-Clerk-9955 8d ago

I just realized that 1. the Google Health app was sending me constant push notifications so I 2. went to iOS settings to turn them off but 3. Google Health notification turn-offs aren’t available in iOS settings and 4. are only accessible buried pages deep in the Google Health app and 5. this is why they’re pushing a new screenless band because 6. the whole point of this is to get you to open their app as much as possible where a blank Gemini input field takes up half the effing screen.

This is all awful.

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u/Big-Faced-Child 7d ago

All about maximum engagement.

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u/Zero-nada-zilch-24 7d ago

You said the key word, “pushing,” not “encouraging,” or “helping.”