I just discovered how useless Android’s answer to Apple Health is

Good luck keeping your data in sync if you have more than one Android phone or if you switch phones.

Apr 12, 2025 - 14:04
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I just discovered how useless Android’s answer to Apple Health is
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Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority

When Google introduced Health Connect to the Android platform with Android 14, I thought it was a genius way to bridge the gap between multiple fitness and health platforms. I’ve had a Fitbit since the original Fitbit One in 2012, so most of my data lives on the platform, but Fitbit doesn’t track everything. My hikes are in AllTrails, my blood pressure is in Google Fit, and I wear an Oura Ring 4 that gives me more detailed sleep and wellness tracking than my current Pixel Watch 3 provides. Health Connect promised to bring all of that data together into Fitbit and all of my Fitbit data into those other apps so I can have a holistic view of my health.

And in reality, it does all of that. But little did I realize that it only does it momentarily, on one phone.