Manage Google Fit's permissions

When you turn on activity tracking, Fit can sense activities like steps and repetitions. 

If you turn this off, Google Fit can’t automatically track your activity. You’ll only find info about activity that you enter manually or that’s tracked by a connected app.

1. On your Android phone, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Apps & notifications  Google Fit .
3. Tap Permissions  Physical activity   Allow.
4. Open Google Fit .
5. At the bottom, tap Profile.
6. At the top, tap Settings .
7. Under “Tracking preferences,” turn Track your activities on or off.

Google Fit can use your location to better track activities like running and cycling and show you maps of your activity. If you turn this off, Google Fit can’t use your location to track activity.

Important: Fit won't save location data for children under 13 (or the applicable age in your country).

1. On your Android phone, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Apps & notifications Google Fit .
3. Tap Permissions Location.
4. Choose how you want to track your location:
   • Allow or Allow all the time: Google Fit tracks your location even when the app isn't open. This way, Google Fit can automatically track activity like when you go for a walk.
   • Allow only while using the app: Google Fit only uses your location after you open the app. This way, Google Fit will only track location when you choose.
   • (Android 11 only) Ask every time: Google Fit asks you for permission to track your location every time you use the app.
   • Deny: Turns off location tracking completely. If you choose this option, skip the next 4 steps.
5. On your phone, open Google Fit .
6. At the bottom, tap Profile.
7. At the top, tap Settings .
8. Under "Tracking preferences," choose how you want to track your location and turn some of these settings on or off:
   • Track your activities
   • Use your location
   • Include maps for all activities

Tip: On phones that run Android 11, if you don't have physical activity tracking turned on and you don't use the app for 90 days, Google Fit reverts to Deny and Google Fit won't use your location to track activity.

Delete permissions for your data

1. On your Android phone, open the Google Fit app .
2. Tap Profile Settings Delete Fit data permissions.
3. To control your data storage, turn off or on:
   • Store vitals data, like your:
     • Heart rate
     • Resting heart rate
     • Respiratory rate
     • Blood glucose
     • Oxygen saturation
     • Temperature
     • Blood pressure
   • Store cycle tracking data

Tips:

• Changing your data permissions affects further tracking of your data. To delete past data, delete your data from Google Fit.
• When you delete your Activity, Sleep, or Guided breathing data, it also deletes related entries from your journal.

Turn off activity tracking

Turn off location tracking

• Connect other apps with Google Fit
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• How connected app sharing works with your Google Fit data
• How automatic tracking works with your Google Fit data
• How location tracking works with your Google Fit data