What you need to know
- Google is introducing a redesign of the sleep tracking view in the Fitbit app for iOS and Android.
- The new page shows a breakdown of last night’s sleep, your sleep score and a sleep timeline all in one place.
- Users can also manually scroll through their sleep timeline and view insights into their sleep habits as part of the revamped experience.
Sleep views in the Fitbit app are changing starting Wednesday, April 10, as Google rolls out the Material You redesign. The company already started aligning the design of the Fitbit app with other Google apps last year, but not every feature or page has seen a visual overhaul. The sleep tracking data was one such example, as the pages linked to it looked identical to the older design of the Fitbit app.
According to a Fitbit community post, the new Sleep views and new features are now finally rolling out.
The older design, which featured bright purple colors and statistics spread across multiple pages, is giving way to a much simpler one. One page aims to provide you with all the information you need about a good night’s sleep. This includes an at-a-glance view that shows sleep duration, sleep score, and a timeline. The sleep timeline is interactive, using different colors to reflect time spent in light, deep, and REM sleep — as well as time spent awake.
While the new look still features Fitbit’s classic purple and teal colors, they are now much more muted. The background is now gray rather than pure white, and the page looks more cohesive than isolated. Overall, it visually matches the rest of the Fitbit app and other Google apps that feature the Material You design language.
Sleep Timeline has a scrubbing tool that can be used to reveal insights about specific moments during sleep. With this tool, data can be narrowed down to minutes, and it could also give you answers to questions like whether you woke up in the middle of the night or were in a deep sleep.
To a greater extent, you can pull sleep tracking data from your Fitbit devices over weekly, monthly, and yearly thresholds to get an overview of your sleep habits over time. This will show how consistently the user meets the sleep goals set in the Fitbit app. It can also let users know how their sleep score and other metrics fluctuate over a longer sample size.
Although the redesign was announced on Wednesday, it is still not widely distributed. Coming soon to all iOS and Android users. “If you don’t have it right away, please be patient as it may take some time to reach all users,” a Fitbit moderator said in a community post.