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Health Connect on Google Fit

Android only

With Health Connect, you can manage your fitness and health app connections and data with a single app. Health Connect combines data from other fitness and health apps and displays the shared health app information on your Google Fit dashboards. This will allow Fit to manage other health and fitness apps like your smartwatch.

Set up Health Connect

  1. On your Android phone, download Health Connect from the Play Store.
  2. Open Google Fit Google Fit.
  3. Tap Profile and then Settings Settings and then Under 'Health Connect' settings, turn on Sync Fit with Health Connect.

Change Health Connect settings

From your phone settings

On your Android phone, go to Settings and then Apps and then Health Connect and thenOpen.

From the Google Fit app

  1. Open Google Fit Google Fit.
  2. Tap Profile and then Settings Settings and then Under 'Health Connect' settings, tap Manage data and access and then Connected apps.
  3. Manage connected apps in Health Connect.

Disconnect Health Connect

Disconnecting will stop Google Fit from accessing or editing any data from Health Connect.

  1. On your Android phone, open Google Fit Google Fit.
  2. Tap Profile and then Settings Settings and then Under 'Health Connect' settings, turn off Sync Fit with Health Connect.

You can also Delete your data from Google Fit to remove past data written by Fit into Health Connect, and the data can’t be read by other apps. New data may still be created in the future.

Note: Other apps may still have access to historical Fit data if they’ve downloaded it before it’s deleted.

Shared data

When you connect and grant access to Google Fit, Fit has permission to access or edit Health Connect data. Fit will still have a copy of this data that it has access to and ownership over. Control and change who has access to your data on Health Connect and the data that’s shared with the app. Learn more about How connected app sharing works with your Google Fit data.

Google Fit adheres to the Health Connect policy requirements and the Permissions and APIs that access sensitive information policy. This includes adhering to the Limited use requirements which determines how and for what purpose Google Fit can access and use your data through Health Connect.

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