Intro
Google Fit on iOS primarily focuses on tracking activity and does not directly provide detailed vital statistics like blood pressure, blood sugar, or body temperature within the app itself.
Here's a breakdown of what Google Fit offers on iOS and how it interacts with your health data:
Core Features on iOS:
* Activity Tracking: Google Fit uses your iPhone's sensors and connected devices (like Apple Watch or Wear OS smartwatches) to automatically track activities such as walking, running, and cycling. You can also manually add other activities.
* Heart Points: This is a key feature that encourages activities that get your heart pumping. You earn one Heart Point for each minute of moderately intense activity and double points for more vigorous activities.
* Move Minutes: Tracks the total time you spend being active throughout the day.
* Goal Setting: You can set daily and weekly goals for Heart Points and steps and monitor your progress.
* Workout Insights: For tracked workouts, you can see stats like heart rate (if your device supports it), speed, pace, route (using GPS), and more.
* Integration with Apple Health: Google Fit on iOS can connect to Apple Health. This allows Google Fit to read data from Apple Health and its connected apps. This means that if other apps or devices record health data in Apple Health (like steps, workouts, sleep), Google Fit can display this information.
* Connection with Other Apps: Google Fit can also connect directly with various other fitness and health apps on iOS, such as Lifesum, Runkeeper, Strava, MyFitnessPal, and Headspace, to provide a more holistic view of your activity.
* Journal View: Provides a snapshot of your activity history across Google Fit and your connected apps.
* Browse View: Allows you to see a more detailed view of all your health and wellness data tracked by Google Fit and connected sources.
Vital Statistics:
* Direct Tracking: Google Fit for iOS does not have built-in functionality to directly track vital statistics like blood pressure, blood glucose, body temperature, or SpO2 (blood oxygen saturation) using the iPhone's sensors alone.
* Integration via Apple Health: If you use other iOS apps or devices that record these vital statistics and sync that data with Apple Health, Google Fit can potentially display this information because it can read data from Apple Health. However, this depends on the specific data types the other apps record and whether Apple Health makes them available to connected apps like Google Fit.
* Body Sensor Information: Google Fit's platform has the capability to handle "Body sensor information," which includes heart rate. If a connected device (like a smartwatch) measures heart rate and sends it to Google Fit (either directly or via Apple Health), you will be able to see this data in your workout details and potentially in the Browse section.
In summary, to see vital statistics within the Google Fit iOS app, you would need to:
* Use a separate iOS app or device that specifically tracks those vital statistics (e.g., a blood pressure monitor connected to an iOS app, a continuous glucose monitor that syncs with an iOS app, a smart scale that records weight and body fat percentage into Apple Health).
* Ensure that the app or device syncs its data with Apple Health.
* Connect Google Fit to Apple Health within the Google Fit app's settings.
Once these steps are taken, Google Fit may be able to display some of these vital statistics that are available in your Apple Health data. However, the level of detail and the specific vital statistics shown will depend on what data is available in Apple Health and how Google Fit chooses to display it.
Important Note: Currently, Google Fit on iOS can read data from Apple Health but does not write data back to Apple Health. This means that activities tracked by Google Fit will not appear in your Apple Health app.
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