what you need to know
- Google is redesigning the sleep tracking view in the Fitbit app for iOS and Android.
- The new page shows an at-a-glance breakdown of last night’s sleep, sleep score, and sleep timeline in one place.
- As part of an overhauled experience, users can also manually clean up their sleep timeline and see insights into their sleeping habits.
The sleep view in the Fitbit app will change starting Wednesday, April 10, as Google rolls out redesigned Material You. Over the last year, the company has begun making the design of the Fitbit app more consistent with other Google apps, but not all features or pages have received a visual overhaul. Sleep tracking data is one such example, as the page associated with it looks identical to the old Fitbit app design.
According to a Fitbit community post, the new sleep view and new features are now finally starting to roll out.
The old design, which featured bright purple colors and statistics spread across multiple pages, is giving way to a simpler design. One page designed to give you all the information you need about your last night’s sleep. These include an overview view showing your sleep duration, sleep score, and timeline. The sleep timeline is interactive and uses different colors to reflect time in light, deep, and REM sleep stages, as well as time spent awake.
While the new look still features Fitbit’s classic purple and teal colors, it’s now more subdued. The background is now gray instead of pure white, and the page looks more cohesive than split. In general, it visually matches the rest of the Fitbit app and other Google apps that adopt the Material You design language.
Sleep Timeline has a cleanup tool that can be used to reveal insights about specific moments during sleep. Use this tool to narrow down the data to just a few minutes, and it can give you answers to questions like whether you woke up in the middle of the night or were in a deep sleep.
On a larger scale, you can pull weekly, monthly, and yearly threshold sleep tracking data from your Fitbit devices to understand your sleep habits over time. This will show how consistently users achieve their sleep goals set in the Fitbit app. It can also tell users how their sleep scores and other metrics fluctuate over longer sample sizes.
Although the redesign was announced on Wednesday, it has yet to be rolled out widely. It will soon reach all iOS and Android users. “If you don’t get it immediately, please be patient as it may take some time to reach all users,” Fitbit moderators said in a community post.