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Google Health Updates Add Custom Food Logging and Enhanced Sleep Tracking
Key points
- Version 5.03 added more metrics to the Today tab.
- Naps over 20 minutes now count towards total sleep duration.
- Version 5.04 introduced custom food creation and logging.
- Quick logging of calories and macronutrients is now available.
- Macronutrient percentage calculation issues were fixed.
Recent Google Health Updates
Google Health has rolled out two consecutive updates, versions 5.03 and 5.04, for its health application on Android and iOS. These updates focus on expanding metric visibility, refining sleep tracking, and enhancing nutrition logging capabilities. Version 5.03 became fully available on iOS and began rolling out to Android, with version 5.04 following shortly after, also available on iOS and progressively reaching Android users.
Expanded Metrics and Sleep Tracking
Version 5.03 brought significant changes to the 'Today' tab, allowing users to add metric tiles for various health indicators. These include heart rate variability, breathing rate, oxygen saturation (SpO2), resting heart rate, skin temperature variation, blood glucose, mindful days, mindful minutes, resilience, protein intake, fat intake, carbohydrate intake, and a friend leaderboard. Previously, these metrics were only accessible in the 'Health' tab. Additionally, this update integrated naps longer than 20 minutes into the 24-hour total sleep duration, visible in the daily sleep view.
Building on these improvements, version 5.04 further integrated naps by including them in the total sleep duration displayed on the 'Today' tab's tiles.
Nutrition Logging Enhancements
A key focus of version 5.04 was addressing user feedback regarding nutrition tracking. The update introduces the ability to create, edit, and delete custom foods, allowing for more personalized logging. Users can also search for and re-log these custom foods. Another new feature enables quick logging of calories and macronutrient estimates without requiring a specific food name. The update also fixed an issue where macronutrient calculations as a percentage of total calories were incorrect for some users.
Additional Fixes and Improvements
Beyond the major feature additions, both updates included various fixes. Version 5.03 for iPhone users added simplified re-ordering for Key Metrics in the Health tab and improved food search. Version 5.04 also addressed issues such as truncated heart rate charts and maps in exercise summaries, and improved cycle health tracking by fixing an issue with period predictions.
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How outlets covered it
Google has provided an update on the remaining improvements for its Health app, following a major redesign. The roadmap outlines outstanding fixes and enhancements across exercise tracking, nutrition and calorie tracking, and data sharing functionalities.
Google Health version 5.04 is rolling out with new features focused on nutrition tracking, including custom food logging and quick calorie/macronutrient entry. The update also addresses various bug fixes across sleep, fitness, and cycle health tracking, improving data accuracy and user experience.
Google Health version 5.04 introduces custom food logging and improves several existing features. This update addresses user complaints regarding nutrition logging and enhances tracking for sleep, fitness, and cycle health.
Google has released version 5.03 of the Health app, enhancing user experience with updated metrics and sleep tracking features. The update allows users to track naps as part of total sleep duration and improves customization of Key Metrics on the Health tab.
Google Health is rolling out version 5.03 for the Health app, bringing new features for sleep tracking and metrics visibility. The update allows for naps to contribute to total sleep duration, enhancing user awareness of sleep quality.