All posts tagged: Fitbits

Fitbit’s Personal Health Coach Will Soon Understand Your Medical Records

Fitbit’s Personal Health Coach Will Soon Understand Your Medical Records

Monitoring your health has never been easier thanks to wrist- and finger-worn fitness trackers. But analyzing the collected data has largely been left to the user. Until recent years, that is, when some of the tech companies that make these wearables launched their own AI health coaches.  In October 2025, Google debuted its version called Coach, powered by Gemini AI, for US Fitbit Premium subscribers on Android. However, the October launch was just a preview, with the company requesting feedback from early adopters. This February, Google expanded the public Coach preview to include iOS users and Fitbit Premium members in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Google announced Tuesday at its annual The Check Up health event that it’s adding additional features to its all-in-one fitness trainer, sleep coach and health advisor.  Improved sleep insights and scoring For sleep tracking, the company’s most significant update yet delivers a 15% increase in sleep stage accuracy, based on comparisons between its latest and previous algorithms across compatible Pixel and Fitbit devices. The current model will now …

Gear News of the Week: Samsung Sets a Date for Galaxy Unpacked, and Fitbit’s AI Coach Comes to iOS

Gear News of the Week: Samsung Sets a Date for Galaxy Unpacked, and Fitbit’s AI Coach Comes to iOS

Samsung will unveil its next flagship smartphone lineup on February 25 at its Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco. The company sent out invites earlier this week. The event will begin at 10 am Pacific (1 pm Eastern), and it’ll be livestreamed here. Rumors abound that suggest the Galaxy S26 series—which will include the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26 Ultra—won’t have any major changes from their predecessors. They’ll likely be powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, with some minor charging speed improvements and minor upgrades to the camera hardware. Courtesy of Samsung Artificial intelligence features will likely sit at the forefront, likely with a few new Gemini tricks. However, one big new feature is a privacy screen built into the smartphone itself. It’ll let you selectively block parts of the display from people around you. Unfortunately, even with only minor upgrades, there may be a price increase for these phones stemming from the RAM shortage. As usual, Samsung is letting you reserve a Galaxy S26 device right now. You’ll …

Fitbit’s Gemini-Powered Coach Comes to the iPhone and Rolls Out to More Countries

Fitbit’s Gemini-Powered Coach Comes to the iPhone and Rolls Out to More Countries

Google’s AI-fication of the Fitbit app is charging full speed ahead and will soon be reaching more people and more countries. After debuting as an Android-exclusive preview for US Premium subscribers, Google has announced that the public preview of its redesigned Fitbit app and health coach/concierge is opening to iPhone users starting Feb. 10. The Gemini AI-powered “Coach” will also roll out in English to Fitbit Premium subscribers in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore on both iOS and Android. Google debuted the redesigned Fitbit app and built-in Coach as an optional public preview in late October for eligible Fitbit Premium subscribers on Android and has since been collecting feedback from early adopters to refine the experience. This expansion brings the new app to more people, generating additional feedback opportunities and moving closer to a final version release. As the race to build smarter, more personalized health platforms intensifies, Google is leaning on its full ecosystem of hardware, software and AI assistant to set Fitbit apart. With the wrist as the centerpoint of the …

Instead of Fitbit’s AI Health Coach, You Could Just Have Friends

Instead of Fitbit’s AI Health Coach, You Could Just Have Friends

Someone needs to say it. Someone has to speak up in defense of being mid. I am a mid runner. Most of us are, as that is the definition of being mid. I work out every day, but I have a full-time job, two kids, a dog, and a spouse. I volunteer, and I have dinner with my parents. I’m aging. I’m not going to knock anyone’s socks off with a crazy 100-miler anytime soon. So what do you do if you don’t want to collapse into a bag of dust, but you have no time or incentive to work with a personal trainer? One option is to do what Atlantic CEO and incredibly fast runner Nicholas Thompson does, and use a custom GPT. Or, you can use Google’s new AI health Coach in the Fitbit app, which is a part of the $10/month Fitbit Premium service. Per Google’s instructions, I used Coach (which is in public preview—a beta, of sorts) for three weeks. I’m a coach for Girls on the Run at my daughter’s …