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Fitbit has no direct connection here. It arrives through Google, which now owns it.

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On an iPhone

Fitbit reaches the Workbench through Google Health. You connect your Google account, and your Fitbit data comes through it. That is the only route on iOS. Health Connect — the Android alternative — is not available on iPhone.
This matters for sleep, and it is worth knowing before you draw conclusions.

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The sleep difference

Fitbit distinguishes two kinds of not-quite-asleep: awake and restless. The two routes into the Workbench treat them differently: So on an iPhone, your Fitbit nights will look slightly better than they do in the Fitbit app: some genuine disturbance is not carried across. This is a known limitation of the iOS path, not a bug, and it is exactly the kind of thing we need to document.

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What you get

  • Sleep with stages, subject to the caveat above
  • Heart rate and resting heart rate
  • Steps, activity and calories
  • Blood oxygen, where your model measures it

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Connecting

See Google Health. The connection is to Google, not to Fitbit directly, and your Fitbit account needs to be linked to your Google account already.

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Known quirks