After first launching its Personal Health Coach in October, Fitbit is now ready to bring its AI-powered workout planner to iPhone.
Fitbit announced on Tuesday that the feature would be available on iOS over the next few weeks, so it may take a while to appear on your device. It remains a public preview, which means Fitbit is gathering feedback, and you may encounter errors from time to time.
The feature uses Google’s Gemini AI models to offer a conversational assistant that guides you in improving your fitness using your historical health data. For example, you can tell the app to build a training plan for a marathon, including a target completion date, using your current fitness to guide you there.
It’s also designed to adapt to changes, which you can communicate to and from the AI through conversational messages.
PCMag’s Andrew Gebhart used Personal Health Coach to plan over a month of workouts, and he found it the best AI health coach he has tried, helping him improve both his motivation and fitness over five weeks.
Gebhart said, “While not perfect, the Google personal health coach is ahead of the pack. Some of the necessary refinements may emerge as the software approaches its final launch.”
You’ll need a Premium subscription and a modern Fitbit tracker to access the feature. There are 13 compatible devices, including the entire Pixel Watch lineup, the Fitbit Charge 5 and 6, Inspire 2 and 3, Luxe, Sense and Sense 2, and Versa 2 and 3.
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Alongside the expansion to iPhone, Fitbit is also introducing these features to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK. It will be available in each region on both Android and iPhone.
This news comes a week after a report said Apple plans to scale back development of an AI doctor feature in its Health app. According to sources speaking with Bloomberg, Apple is set to reduce its planned scope and instead allow Siri to answer select health questions.
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