Is Google Fit Being Discontinued in 2026? Move Your Weight to Health Connect

Google Fit's APIs shut down at the end of 2026. Here's how to move your weight history to Health Connect and keep your smart scale syncing on Android.

Is Google Fit being discontinued in 2026? In short, yes — but your weight history does not have to disappear with it. Google has confirmed that the Google Fit developer APIs — the behind-the-scenes connections that let a smart scale or app push readings into Fit — will only be supported until the end of 2026, and it closed the door to new developers back in May 2024. The Fit app itself is being folded into Google’s new Health app, with a migration tool promised for existing users. For anyone tracking their weight, the fix is painless: switch your sync over to Health Connect, Google’s on-device replacement hub, and your numbers keep flowing without missing a beat.

What is actually being discontinued?

It helps to separate two things that often get lumped together. The first is the set of Google Fit APIs — the plumbing that third-party apps and scales use to read and write data. Google’s own developer documentation is blunt about it: the Fit APIs, including the REST API, are supported only “until the end of 2026”, after which they stop working. New developers have not been able to sign up since 1 May 2024. That is the concrete Google Fit API shutdown in 2026 everyone keeps referring to.

The second is the Google Fit app you might still have on your phone. Google is consolidating its health products, and in May 2026 the Fitbit app was rebranded as the Google Health app. Google has said it will invite Google Fit users to migrate their data into Google Health later in the year, via a dedicated migration tool. An exact switch-off date for the Fit app itself has not been confirmed, so for now it still opens — but it is plainly on the way out, and building a routine around it is no longer wise.

Will your Arboleaf scale stop working?

No. This is the reassuring part, so let us be clear: your scale is not affected by any of this. A body-composition scale weighs you and estimates your metrics over Bluetooth into its own app — none of that depends on Google Fit. What changes is only the destination your weight is copied to afterwards. The Arboleaf scale (£119.34) stores every reading in the free Arboleaf app first, and from there it can pass your weight on to a health platform. When the old Fit connection retires, you simply point that hand-off at Health Connect instead. You keep the scale, the app and all 45+ metrics; only the sync bridge changes.

Meet Health Connect, the replacement hub

Health Connect is Google’s answer to the fragmented world of fitness apps. Rather than somewhere you log in and browse, it is a quiet on-device data layer: a single, private store on your phone that different apps can read from and write to, with you controlling the permissions. Your data stays on the device, not in a Google cloud dashboard.

Crucially, it is already on most phones. On Android 14 and newer, Health Connect is built into the system — you will find it under Settings › Security & privacy › Privacy › Health Connect, and it cannot be uninstalled. On Android 13 and older, it is a free download from the Play Store. Either way, once your scale writes weight into it, any other app you approve — a nutrition tracker, a running app, a coaching platform — can read that same figure. If you want the bigger picture of how these platforms fit together, our guide to using a single weight-sync hub for your apps walks through the trade-offs.

How to move your Google Fit weight to Health Connect

To move your Google Fit weight to Health Connect, you link the two so your existing Fit data becomes visible to the new hub:

1. On Android 13 or lower, install Health Connect from the Play Store. On Android 14+, it is already there.
2. Open the Google Fit app and tap Profile › Settings.
3. Under Health Connect, turn on Sync Fit with Health Connect and grant the permissions it asks for.

Once linked, your Fit records feed into Health Connect and become available to other apps you authorise. Two honest caveats: when you connect a new app to Health Connect, it can usually only read the last 30 days of history plus anything added afterwards, so older data may not travel onward automatically. And Google’s promised migration tool into the Google Health app is the more complete route for a full, decade-long archive — keep an eye out for it rolling out during 2026.

Keep your scale syncing: Health Connect weight sync

Setting up Health Connect weight sync from your scale takes about a minute:

1. Open the Arboleaf app and go to its sync or connected-services settings.
2. Choose Health Connect and enable the connection.
3. In Health Connect (via Settings on Android 14+), open the permission manager, select the Arboleaf app, and allow read/write access for weight (and body composition where offered).

From then on, each weigh-in lands in the app and is copied into Health Connect, ready for whichever other apps you have connected. If a reading does not appear elsewhere, the cause is almost always a missing permission in that list — check it first.

Back up your history so you own it

One weakness worth planning around: Health Connect has no simple CSV or spreadsheet export for everyday users. It can run a scheduled, encrypted backup to your cloud storage as a zip file, which is fine for moving between phones, but it is not a tidy record you can open in a spreadsheet. This is exactly why owning a portable copy matters. The Arboleaf app includes a built-in CSV export, so you can save your full weigh-in history in a format nothing can lock away — handy to grab before any migration. You can see the export and other tools on the Arboleaf data features page.

FAQ

Is Google Fit being discontinued in 2026? Effectively, yes. The Google Fit APIs are supported only until the end of 2026, and the Fit app is being absorbed into the Google Health app. You can still open Fit for now, but any new data connections should target Health Connect.

Will I lose my weight data? Not if you act. Linking Google Fit to Health Connect keeps your data accessible, Google plans a migration tool into Google Health, and exporting a CSV from your scale app gives you a copy you fully own.

Do I need to download Health Connect? Only on Android 13 and older. On Android 14 and newer it is built into the phone and found in your privacy settings, so there is nothing to install.

Bottom line: Google Fit is bowing out and its APIs end with 2026, but your scale and your history do not have to. Switch the sync to Health Connect, grab a CSV backup, and your weight trend carries on exactly as before — on the Arboleaf smart scale or any device you choose.