Google Health 5.02: New Nap Tracking, Key Metrics & Data Controls

It’s barely been a month since Google renamed the Fitbit app to Google Health, and the company is already on its second significant update. This latest Google Health update, version 5.02, lands on both Android and iOS and touches just about everything from sleep and nutrition to data management and the general layout of the app’s dashboard. Google isn’t treating this as a maintenance patch — the company has been explicit that more changes are coming in the weeks ahead.

• Google Health update 5.02 adds a dedicated nap tab in the Sleep Score view, making it easier to track rest over time.
• The Google Health update brings expanded metrics to the Today screen and restores hourly activity charts for step-goal tracking.
• Users can now delete individual exercise, food, and weight logs directly inside the app without visiting Privacy Center.
• Several features in 5.02 are Android-only for now, with iOS support confirmed for the upcoming 5.03 release.

From Fitbit to Google Health: A Rebranding That’s Moving Fast

The pace here is worth pausing on. Google officially retired the Fitbit app branding earlier this year, folding it into a unified Google Health experience designed to support the new Fitbit Air and a personalised coaching layer powered by Google’s AI. That was version 5.0. Then 5.01 arrived at the start of June with the first wave of post-rebrand fixes and additions. Now, just weeks later, the Google Health update 5.02 is here — and Google’s own community post notes that this is “just a taste of what’s coming.”

That’s an unusually candid admission from a company that typically lets the update notes speak for themselves. It signals that the Google Health team is under real pressure to demonstrate that the rebrand wasn’t just cosmetic — that it represents a genuine step-change in the product’s ambition and polish.

Google Health Update Finally Takes Naps Seriously

Let’s start with sleep, because it’s where the most immediately useful changes land. The Google Health update has tracked naps for a while, but they’ve always been awkwardly lumped together with your main sleep data in a way that made them easy to miss. With 5.02, naps get their own dedicated tab within the daily Sleep Score view, meaning you can actually browse and analyse your nap history across days without hunting through the main sleep timeline.

That’s a small change on paper, but it reflects something meaningful: the growing recognition that sleep science isn’t just about your main overnight rest. Daytime napping, when done right, has a documented effect on cognitive performance and alertness. Apps like Whoop and Oura have leaned into multi-phase rest tracking for some time, and Google needed to catch up. Beyond naps, this Google Health update has also fixed a persistent bug that stopped some users from editing their sleep sessions, and you can now fully delete a sleep session — something that sounds basic but wasn’t cleanly supported until now.

The Restlessness bar has also been repositioned to sit closer to the sleep stages graph, which makes it much easier to correlate restless moments with the specific sleep stage you were in at the time. Google says more improvements to awake-moment detection are still on the way.

A More Configurable Today Screen

The Today screen is the first thing most users see when they open the app, and the Google Health update is giving it a real overhaul in terms of flexibility. You can now tap the pencil icon and select ‘Expanded view’ to see a broader set of health metrics without having to swipe through panels or navigate to a separate tab. Reordering your focus metrics has also been simplified — in edit mode, you can tap a metric and swap it with another directly, rather than wrestling with the previous drag-based system.

On Android, the Key Metrics section in the Health tab now supports drag-and-drop reordering, which is a welcome quality-of-life addition. You long-press a chart and drag it to wherever you want it in the layout. iOS users will have to wait for version 5.03 for that particular feature, but it’s confirmed as coming.

Hourly activity is also back. This was apparently removed at some point during the transition, and its absence was clearly noticed — Google’s changelog specifically calls out its return. The hourly activity chart shows your step goal progress on an hour-by-hour basis and can be added to both the Today and Health dashboards through the usual customisation menus.

Nutrition Gets a Cleaner Read

The Nutrition tile on the Today screen has been updated to show calorie intake as the top number and calories remaining as the bottom figure, replacing the previous net-calorie display. It’s a subtle shift, but one that makes the information more immediately actionable — most people think in terms of ‘how much have I eaten’ and ‘how much do I have left,’ not a running net balance.

There’s also a genuinely useful addition in this Google Health update for anyone who logs food manually: macronutrient estimates now appear on the main logging page before you finalise the entry. Previously you’d confirm a log and only then see the macro breakdown. Being able to preview that data up front — especially when choosing between similar food options — is the kind of small UX improvement that has a disproportionate impact on daily use. Food search has also been sped up on both platforms, and Android now shows serving units and calories inline in the search results, with iOS support coming in 5.03.

Data Deletion Gets Long-Overdue Attention

One of the more practically significant changes in this Google Health update is around data management. Until now, if you wanted to delete a workout, food log, or weight entry that had been synced from a third-party app, you had to navigate out to the Privacy Center — a clunky detour that most users probably didn’t even know existed. As of 5.02, you can tap on any individual session or log within the app and delete it directly, using either a three-dot menu or a trash icon.

The handling of data from Health Connect or Apple Health is sensibly tiered: if the record came in via those platforms, you’ll be redirected to complete deletion there (and it will be removed from that platform too). If it came through a direct integration, the deletion is handled entirely within Google Health. Google has also confirmed that a future Google Health update will let you delete Health Connect and Apple Health records from inside the app without having to touch those platforms separately — a further simplification that can’t come soon enough.

There were also some exercise-tracking bugs squashed. Steps and distance were incorrectly reported as zero for certain manually logged activities, and automatically detected bike rides were underreporting distance. Both are fixed in this Google Health update.

What This Update Says About Google’s Health Ambitions

Taken individually, most of these changes are incremental. Taken together, they paint a picture of a platform that’s being actively rebuilt rather than maintained. The Fitbit acquisition cost Google $2.1 billion, and for years it was hard to tell exactly what Google’s plan was. A stronger cadence of Google Health update releases, a clearer product identity, and AI-backed features like the Health Coach suggest the company is finally committing to making that investment count.

The competition isn’t standing still, of course. Apple Health continues to deepen its clinical integrations, Oura Ring is expanding its subscription platform, and Samsung Health is benefiting from the Galaxy Watch ecosystem. Google is playing catch-up in some areas, but the speed of iteration since the rebrand is at least a sign that the product team has a genuine mandate to close those gaps. Whether the feature pace holds once the post-launch enthusiasm fades will be the real test.

Source: Android Authority

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