Google Health Improves After 2 Months as AI Memory and Accuracy Issues Persist

Q: The new Google Health Coach hallucinates data and nags users, so why is the company locking its best features behind a premium paywall?

Google is paywalling Health Coach because it sees AI coaching, not basic tracking, as the product it can monetize. The free Google Health tier already includes steps, sleep, heart rate, HRV, SpO2, and logging. Premium, priced at $9.99 a month or bundled into the $19.99 Google AI Pro plan, is where Google puts the Gemini-based features, adaptive workout plans, deeper sleep analysis, and proactive insights. That matches a broader strategy across tech: use health data as the base, then charge for interpretation. The problem is that Google is asking users to pay for the least finished part of the service. Reviews and user reports say Health Coach can be genuinely helpful when analyzing patterns in personal data, such as linking exercise days to better sleep, and it can simplify logging meals or workouts. But the same reports say it still hallucinates, sometimes shows wrong data in notifications, and remembers one-off questions as if they were permanent habits. The lack of a clear memory dashboard or easy controls to delete what the AI “knows” makes that worse. Why lock it anyway? Because AI features are expensive to run, help justify Google AI Pro subscriptions, and give Google a way to differentiate itself from Apple, Oura, Whoop, and Samsung in the race to become the main consumer health hub. In short, Google is charging for the feature it believes will define the platform’s future, even though today it still behaves like a beta.

2 articles · Updated · Android Authority · Aug 5

Two months after Google replaced the Fitbit app with Google Health alongside the $99 Fitbit Air, the app has improved with a customizable home screen and more useful AI-generated summaries.
The Health Coach now helps surface patterns in personal data—such as sleep differences on workout versus non-workout days—but the review says that value is undercut by the AI treating one-off questions as permanent habits.
Users still cannot see, edit or delete what Google Health remembers, a gap the reviewer says is especially problematic for sensitive health information and one echoed by Reddit complaints.
Accuracy also remains uneven: some notifications showed incorrect health data until the app refreshed, reinforcing concerns that Google has not yet made the AI reliable enough for health use.
The review concludes Google Health is still caught between a traditional fitness dashboard and an AI health companion, leaving its long-term role unclear despite recent fixes.