Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead

Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead

Google Health 来了,但许多用户却更想要回原来的 Fitbit 应用

Fitbit users have some complaints about the new app built around Google’s AI coaching experience. Fitbit 用户对这款围绕 Google AI 教练体验构建的新应用颇有微词。

The Fitbit app is no more. Along with the launch of the new Fitbit Air (which you can expect a full review of once we’ve spent more time with it), Google has officially replaced it with Google Health, as previously announced, and many of the responses we’ve seen so far are full of confusion, frustration, and requests to get the old app back. Fitbit 应用已成过去式。随着新款 Fitbit Air 的发布(在我们深入体验后,您将看到完整的评测),正如之前宣布的那样,Google 已正式将其替换为 Google Health。然而,我们目前看到的许多反馈都充满了困惑、沮丧,以及要求换回旧版应用的呼声。

One post on Reddit calls out a common issue, saying, “I can’t even completely fill up my home screen. They only have 2 large tiles available and I can’t just scroll down to see everything.” The landing page has a small section up top showing steps and some other basic stats, but part of the app’s main page is now reserved for recent activity updates and chatty notes from Google’s AI health coach. Reddit 上的一篇帖子指出了一个普遍问题:“我甚至无法填满我的主屏幕。他们只提供了两个大磁贴,我无法通过向下滚动来查看所有内容。”应用首页顶部有一个小区域显示步数和其他基本统计数据,但应用主页的一部分现在被用于展示近期活动更新以及来自 Google AI 健康教练的闲聊笔记。

The AI didn’t have much to say to me, but for my senior editor, Richard Lawler, it started a conversation about today’s plans that he wasn’t quite ready to have with a chatbot. 这个 AI 对我没说什么特别的,但对于我的高级编辑 Richard Lawler 来说,它开启了一段关于今日计划的对话,而他还没准备好与聊天机器人进行这种交流。

Not everyone is annoyed by the AI bot however, with one person commenting, “When I ask it to design a moderate workout using my office gym equipment, circuit style, I usually end up feeling great afterwards.” Another person called it “quite a helpful feature,” showing how they were able to update their sleep log with a missed session by chatting with the AI bot. 不过,并非所有人都对这个 AI 机器人感到厌烦。有人评论道:“当我要求它利用办公室健身器材设计一套中等强度的循环训练时,我通常会在结束后感觉很棒。”另一个人称其为“非常有用的功能”,并展示了他们如何通过与 AI 机器人聊天来补录遗漏的睡眠记录。

Another user said, “This graphic UI looks like something an 8 year old would make,” while someone else complained, “Why must I now scroll through paragraphs of AI slop on every tab before I can actually see my activities and data? I don’t want or need to read platitudes about my 15 minute walk to the grocery store. I want to see my stats from my morning run.” 另一位用户表示:“这个图形界面看起来像是 8 岁小孩做的。”还有人抱怨道:“为什么我现在必须在每个标签页中滚动阅读大段的 AI 废话,才能看到我的活动和数据?我既不需要也不想读关于我步行 15 分钟去杂货店的陈词滥调。我只想看我晨跑的统计数据。”

One post on Google’s help center sums things up, saying, “This app is a huge disappointment and a total time drain to get minimal results. How can I get back to using what worked?!” Many others were in agreement, with one reply saying, “it’s no longer a genuine fitness app.” Google 帮助中心的一篇帖子总结道:“这款应用非常令人失望,完全是在浪费时间却收效甚微。我怎样才能换回那个好用的版本?!”许多人表示赞同,其中一条回复写道:“它不再是一款纯粹的健身应用了。”

On Google’s blog post, its sample image shows a version of the Today screen with all of the information and an AI chat that we couldn’t get to show up, but did appear for some users. There doesn’t seem to be any way to remove the Ask Coach / activity window that takes up so much of the screen, but the bot can be disabled from within the new app’s Feature Privacy Controls. 在 Google 的博客文章中,示例图片展示了一个包含所有信息和 AI 聊天的“今日”页面版本,虽然我们无法复现该界面,但它确实出现在了一些用户的设备上。目前似乎没有办法移除占据屏幕大部分空间的“询问教练/活动”窗口,但可以在新应用的“功能隐私控制”中禁用该机器人。

Even though I knew the switch to Google Health was coming, I was still disoriented for the first several minutes after opening the app this morning. 尽管我知道 Google Health 即将上线,但今天早上打开应用后的最初几分钟,我仍然感到不知所措。

If you want to see more of your stats and health tracking data, you have to either swipe left in the small top box on the “Today” page or tab over to the “Health” page. To find logs for my rowing workouts that I had stored in the old Fitbit app, I had to go into “Health,” then down to the “Fitness” section in “Focus areas”, where my logs were viewable under “Exercise days.” In the old Fitbit app, I could see the “Exercise days” block by just scrolling down on the app’s main “Today” page. 如果你想查看更多统计数据和健康追踪信息,必须在“今日”页面顶部的小方框中向左滑动,或者切换到“健康”页面。为了找到我存储在旧版 Fitbit 应用中的划船训练记录,我必须进入“健康”,然后向下找到“重点领域”中的“健身”部分,在那里我才能在“运动天数”下看到记录。而在旧版 Fitbit 应用中,我只需在主页“今日”向下滚动即可看到“运动天数”模块。

According to a support page, if you have a supported wearable connected, Google Health shows two additional tabs for Fitness and Sleep that would make things easier, but before the redesign I didn’t need those. While Google’s Rishi Chandra told The Verge earlier this month that Google Health will eventually support third-party wearables, my Nothing Watch Pro 3 currently isn’t enough to unlock those two extra tabs. 根据支持页面显示,如果你连接了受支持的可穿戴设备,Google Health 会显示“健身”和“睡眠”两个额外的标签页,这会让操作更简单,但在改版前我并不需要这些。虽然 Google 的 Rishi Chandra 本月初告诉 The Verge,Google Health 最终将支持第三方可穿戴设备,但我的 Nothing Watch Pro 3 目前还无法解锁这两个额外标签。