Google Health 5.12 for Android and iOS adds manual blood pressure logging and syncing through Health Connect or Apple Health, a glucose graph that overlays exercise, sleep and meals, and pregnancy tracking. It closes the gap in Google's passive blood pressure trends, which tell users to check with a cuff for seven days.
If you wear a Fitbit or Pixel Watch and own a home blood pressure cuff, update the Google Health app. Version 5.12, rolling out now on Android and iOS, lets you log blood pressure readings by hand or sync them from another app through Health Connect on Android or Apple Health on iPhone. Until now the app only showed Google’s passive estimate, with no place for the cuff numbers that estimate tells you to take.
What changed in 5.12
Google posted the 5.12 release notes on its Google Health community forum on November 6. According to 9to5Google, which reproduced them, the update adds three things:
- Blood pressure logging. Tap +Log on the Today tab and pick Blood pressure, or import readings from a cuff’s own app through Health Connect or Apple Health. Google Health Premium subscribers can also log a reading by telling the Gemini health coach.
- A new glucose graph. In the Metabolic Health section of the Health tab, logged and tracked exercise, sleep and meals now sit on top of your glucose curve, and you can log an event from the graph.
- Pregnancy tracking. Turn it on in Cycle Health settings or through the coach. Cycle predictions and period notifications pause, and the cycle page counts weeks of pregnancy instead.
Android Authority also reported the release, saying it reworks glucose, blood pressure and resilience tracking.
Google Health Premium costs $9.99 a month or $99 a year, as TechCrunch reported when it launched in May. The release notes as quoted mark only the coach route as Premium. Google has not said in plain words whether hand logging is free, so check your app before you pay for anything.
Your cuff readings now sit next to Google’s estimate
Google’s blood pressure trends feature, part of Health Guardian, estimates blood pressure from pulse and motion data on the Pixel Watch 3 and later, the Fitbit Edge and the Fitbit Air. It needs at least five days of wear a month. When it flags a high trend, Google’s own help page says to take seven days of readings with a physical cuff and share them with your doctor. Google also says the feature does not screen for hypertension and gives no real-time readings.
Before 5.12, those seven days of cuff readings lived in a different app or on paper. Now they can sit in the same place as the trend that prompted them, which makes a doctor visit easier to prepare. If your cuff already writes to Health Connect or Apple Health, turn on that sync once and skip the manual entry.
The estimate is still a wellness trend. A “not high” result does not rule out a condition, in Google’s words. If you track blood pressure because a doctor asked you to, the cuff stays the number that counts.
If you are still choosing a tracker, our sleep tracker guide covers the wearables that feed these apps, and our Fitbit Edge launch story explains what Google Health Premium adds on the $179.99 band.