If you tried to connect an app to Google Fit and couldn't, or followed a tutorial showing buttons that no longer exist, there's an explanation, and it comes with dates.
- Since May 1, 2024, no new app can sign up to use the Google Fit APIs. Apps that weren't in before that date are out.
- Support for the APIs runs through the end of 2026. In other words: apps that were already using them still work today, but on a deadline.
- On Android, the replacement Google points to is Health Connect.
That's why the answers you find online vary so much. A lot of the content predates May 2024 and teaches a path that no longer exists for new apps; some of it says everything is already gone, which isn't accurate either.
What Health Connect is
It's Android's health hub. It doesn't collect anything on its own: it works as a meeting point where apps write and read each other's data, with you controlling who can see what. Your watch writes steps, your running app writes the workout, your nutrition app reads calories burned.
On phones running Android 14 or later, it's built into the system, in Settings, under Security and privacy. On earlier versions, it's an app you install from the Play Store.
What to do on Android
- 1Open Health Connect (in Settings, under Security and privacy; or install it from the Play Store if you can't find it).
- 2Under App permissions, see which apps are already connected.
- 3Open your watch's app - Samsung Health, Garmin Connect, Fitbit, Zepp - and turn on syncing with Health Connect in its settings.
- 4Go back to Health Connect and confirm that data has started showing up under Data and access.
- 5Only then connect the app that will READ that data.
The order matters. If you connect the app that reads first and only later turn on the one that writes, the first sync comes back empty and it looks like it didn't work.
And on iPhone
Health Connect doesn't exist on iPhone and never has - there, that role belongs to Apple's Health app, which comes preinstalled and has always worked this way. iPhone users never depended on Google Fit for this, and nothing changes.
What you could lose
The history stored in Google Fit doesn't move to Health Connect on its own. If you have years of steps there and they matter to you, export them before the deadline - Google Takeout lets you download your account's data.
Be wary of any app advertising a NEW Google Fit connection. Sign-ups have been closed since 2024, so either that screen is from an old version nobody removed, or the integration is a holdover with an expiration date.
And in Biomapa
Biomapa removed its Google Fit connection instead of leaving a button with an expiration date. On Android, it reads Health Connect and, for Galaxy users, also reads Samsung Health directly. On iPhone, it reads Apple Health. If you use Strava, there's a separate connection that works the same on either system.