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Google Health, the application you need for the Fitbit Air, now syncs data to Apple Health and HealthKit.

So it went the other way, right, where, where the Google Health app would slurp up your Apple Health data.

Mm-hmm.

Now it's bidirectional.

Zach Call at 9to5, uh, reported on this, and it seems to include sleep data, steps, workouts, and vitals.

Um, and it, I mean, in my brief time with it, it seems to basically do what it, what it's supposed to do.

And this is what I want out of really any third-party tracker bec- especially Google Health because that app is, is pretty bad, and I don't wanna interact with it.

[laughs] And so, uh, they've, uh, they finally got this going.

Um, a friend of mine who is, let's just say, um-

um-Well acquainted with Apple's health initiatives.

Um, [laughs] sent me a blog post from like 2018 or something someone had written.

Uh, Google w- uh, F- Fitbit at the time was like, "Yeah, we're not gonna deal with HealthKit." [laughs] Like, well, times change, baby.

Hmm.

So just to, like, check what's happening here, so now your Fitbit Air, that's what it's called, right?

Yes.

Fitbit Air? Yeah.

Well, if you're wearing it, it's gonna sync its information to the Google Health app, which then will sync that to Apple Health.

Correct.

Okay.

Hmm.

Yeah.

Have you seen this happening?

Uh, yeah.

I mean, it seems-

Okay