Google Fit Wants Your Health Data, Even on iPhone

After undergoing an overhaul last year, Google Fit is ready for its close-up…on iPhones. The search giant revealed Wednesday that its health-tracking software has come to Apple’s App Store. But this isn’t a smartphone play; the subtext is all about wearables. Google Fit may work in limited fashion on Android smartphones, but its fuller potential lies in Wear OS smartwatches — which includes recent releases from Kate Spade, Michael Kors and others — to track workouts, heart-rate and other metrics. The data tracked on the wrist funnels into the connected Android phone. Until recently, users could check out their data on the web, but Google shut down the Google Fit web site in March, urging people to access it on Android mobiles and Wear OS smartwatches. It’s less straightforward for Wear OS users with iPhones. The data tracked in Apple Health isn’t freely available to outside apps, and partial data forms an incomplete picture of a person’s health or historical patterns. Google’s workaround: Forget Apple Health, but hook into the third-party health and fitness apps that tie into it. Now those apps can send information to Google Fit, regardless of which watch the user sports. According to Google’s blog post, “Apps you connect to Apple Health,

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