How To Link Google Fit
What Syncs Between Google Fit and MyFitnessPal?
How often do Google Fit and MyFitnessPal sync with each other?
What happens when Google Fit logs an exercise?
How does Step Tracking work with Google Fit?
Other Info
Troubleshooting
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How To Link Google Fit
- Tap on the Menu bar in the upper left of the MyFitnessPal Android App screen
- Scroll down to Apps & Devices
- Scroll down or search for Google Fit. Once selected click Connect
- Follow the prompts to accept information to sync with Google Fit
- Select the Google account you have linked with your Google Fit app (If you select a different account at this point information will not sync)
- You'll then get a permission pop-up for information to sync with MyFitnessPal
What Syncs Between Google Fit and MyFitnessPal?
MyFitnessPal syncs weight to Google Fit and pulls exercises and step count from Google Fit.
How often do Google Fit and MyFitnessPal sync with each other?
MyFitnessPal will sync with Google Fit any time the following actions are completed within the MyFitnessPal app:
- when the app is opened after a force close
- when you navigate to a screen selected from the App Menu
- when you hit “Complete Entry” from your diary
What happens when Google Fit logs an exercise?
When you log an exercise in Google Fit, MyFitnessPal reads the exercise name, start time, and duration of the exercise from Google Fit, and then matches it with an exercise in our database, to calculate the estimated calorie burn for the duration of that entry. You will see this entry logged as an exercise in your MyFitnessPal Diary.
Please Note: The calories burned for the exercise listed in MyFitnessPal will not match the calorie burn listed in Google Fit. This is because Google Fit does not take into account your age and sex when doing their calculation. MyFitnessPal takes this information into account and produces a different estimation of the calorie burn for the logged exercise on our end.
How does Step Tracking work with Google Fit?
Google Fit is one of our Step Source Partners. This means that you can select Google Fit from the Steps menu within the Android MyFitnessPal app, to track your step count throughout the day, and have your daily activity accounted for within the programs. If you have this selected, MyFitnessPal will pull your step count from Google Fit, and give you an Exercise Adjustment in your MyFitnessPal Diary (go here to learn more about adjustments). This will show differently than exercises logged by Google Fit.
Please Note: The step count displayed in the Google Fit app and the MyFitnessPal app will not show the exact same number of steps, but will be within a similar range of the other. This has to do with the way Google Fit syncs the data between their app and their platform. Google Fit tracks steps directly from their platform, which is built into the Android operating system. MyFitnessPal, at intervals described above, then pulls the step count from their platform and displays it within the MyFitnessPal app (and then MyFitnessPal does the calorie burn calculation for that step count and displays it within our app). The Google Fit app also syncs with the Google Fit platform, but may sync at different intervals, and is why the step count may not be the same.
I see “running” exercises logged by Google Fit, and I didn’t enter those. Why is this happening?
Google Fit is tracking your step activity with its app. When it detects your step count over a certain time period has increased, it knows you have started running. For example, you may have left to catch the train home and realized that if you don’t hurry, you won’t catch your normal train. So you run from your office to the station. Even though you didn’t log that 3-minute run, Google Fit knows you were running, and posts that exercise. MyFitnessPal will see that exercise posted in Google Fit, and pull it into your MyFitnessPal Diary so that we are accounting for those calories burned.
What information can I compare between Google Fit and MyFitnessPal to know that the two programs are syncing correctly?
You can compare the Exercise Name, Start Time, and Duration of the Exercise.
What else do I need to know about what syncs between Google Fit and MyFitnessPal?
MyFitnessPal will not pull strength exercises from Google Fit because we do not give calories for strength exercises. You can read more about this here.
Exercises logged as “walking” will not be pulled from Google Fit. It is assumed that if you want to track your walking, you will have Google Fit selected as your primary Step Source within the MyFitnessPal app, and all walking will be taken into account with the Google Fit exercise adjustment in your MyFitnessPal Diary.
If Google Fit doesn’t seem to be syncing properly with MyFitnessPal, what troubleshooting steps should I take?
If you are having trouble with the Google Fit / MyFitnessPal integration, and the above information does not help sort out what you are experiencing, you can try these troubleshooting steps, in order, to try and get you up and running. If the first doesn’t resolve, then please try the next.
- Please make sure you are running the most up to date version of the app available in the Google Play Store. We release updates with fixes for bugs/issues, and the update may resolve the issue you’re having.
- Force stop the MyFitnessPal app from your device settings and relaunch MyFitnessPal. This will force a sync between MyFitnessPal and Google Fit.
- Clear the cache via your phone’s setting for the MyFitnessPal app. This will reset particular points within the app and will attempt a resync of data.
- Unlink and relinks Google Fit and MyFitnessPal. This will reestablish a fresh connection between the two programs. Please note: When unlinking and relinking, only the current days info will sync. Previous day’s data will not.
- Unlink Google Fit and MyFitnessPal, then uninstall both the MyFitnessPal and Google Fit apps. Then reinstall the apps and relink the programs.
This troubleshooting didn't help. Where can I check to see if this is an issue with the Google Fit Integration?
You can check our integration known issues page here. Any known issues with Google Fit (as well as any other integration partner) will be listed in that area.
I don't see my issue listed on the Integration Known Issues page and I'm still having trouble. What now?
If none of these troubleshooting steps help, please write into our support team and we will see what we can do to assist further. When you write in, please include what kind of device you have, the device OS, any screen shots documenting the issue, and please be as specific as possible to the issue you are experiencing. You can reach us here.
