Portaltic.-Google Assistant adds support for third-party health and fitness data

MADRID, 24 years old (Portaltic / EP)

Google Assistant has built into its app support for using exercise and health data from third-party services, including sleep and nutrition tracking information from linked devices like Fitbit.

Google’s digital tool has added the new ‘Wellness’ or ‘Wellbeing’ section, as discovered by the Android Police portal, to complete the data integration process of Fitbit, a company that Google acquired in 2019 for almost 1,900 million euros.

The new section contains Fitbit tracking data and allows the user to use the Assistant to access sleep data collected from compatible devices with the Google tool.

With this feature, assistant users can connect to third-party services to track health data, including exercise and nutrition.

This way, users can use their compatible devices so the Assistant can access information and answer questions such as how long the user sleeps at night.

Currently, only sleep data support works in the new section and only on Fitbit products, although Google plans to extend this support to third parties in the future.