Google Fit is one of the popular and useful fitness tracking applications that delivers quite accurate results. There is no doubt about tracking the necessity of your fitness activity across both the Android and iOS devices even including Android smartwatches. Google actively works for its improvements too. However, we can’t deny that just like other fitness tracking applications, Google Fit Step Tracking Breaks as well.
Due to the fair share of bugs and some in-app syncing conflicts, most users may not get accurate tracking results. Sometimes the bug may go haywire and unfortunate users could also get no tracking results via the Google Fit application irrespective of mobile and smartwatch. Previously, the same kind of step-tracking issues were reported by Google Fit app users and now it appears again.
As per multiple reports, either the Google Fit app shows incorrect step counts or sometimes it also fails to track any of the steps including the distance tracking. Meanwhile, some of the reports also claim that Google Fit is eventually deleting the step-tracking data unexpectedly. Well, these specific issues have surfaced across multiple online forums and platforms in the last couple of days at the time of covering this article.
Several user reports on Reddit can be found that the Google Fit app somehow doesn’t work as we expect. These reports are recently added on forums and community pages so that other users can give their feedback or the Google Fit developers can investigate the bug deeply.
It’s needless to mention there are already several complaints present on the Play Store page regarding the Google Fit Step Tracking bug. So, we can assume that the developers are aware of this specific bug that may occur due to the app syncing issues with the device or the internal services having technical conflicts.
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As already mentioned above, this particular issue did appear a few years ago. Hence, this isn’t a new bug for the users and even for the developers. Though we’re not sure which mobile devices from which brands are getting affected by this majorly, it looks like several OnePlus handset users are facing it currently.
In that case, we can say that the mobile software-related bug or compatibility issue is troubling the users with Google Fit activity tracking. Affected users have already tried, clearing the app cache data & reinstalling the app itself but there has been no success right now.
While you can wait for an official patch fix, you can also try performing some workarounds at your end to resolve this issue. For instance, enabling location services, disabling battery saving mode, having a better mobile data connection during exercise, etc. In addition, you can also check the official Google Fit Help page for troubleshooting.
