Google Health 5.04 begins rolling out today, bringing a focused set of nutrition improvements along with additional bug fixes across sleep, fitness, cycle health, and social features. Many of the changes address user feedback about the previous redesign, especially requests for more flexible food logging and clearer macronutrient reporting.
Update 7/22: Google Health 5.04.1 is now widely available on Android.
Original 7/16: Version 5.04 is available on iOS and rolling out to Android. This release follows the broad distribution of the prior update earlier in the week.
The release notes for Google Health 5.04 group improvements and fixes into five main areas: nutrition, sleep, fitness and activity, cycle health, and friends and leaderboards. Below is a concise summary of the changes and how they improve daily tracking and long-term insight.
Nutrition Updates
- Introducing custom foods: You can now create, edit, and delete custom food entries to match homemade meals, local dishes, or items not found in the database. Saved custom foods are searchable and can be re-logged easily, which speeds up repeated entries and improves consistency in tracking.
- Quick logging with calories and macronutrient estimates: A new quick-log option allows you to record an entry by entering calories and macronutrient values directly—without needing to find or name a specific food. This is helpful when you know nutritional totals from a label, meal plan, or recipe calculation and want fast logging.
- Macronutrient percentage fixes: An issue that caused incorrect macronutrient percentage calculations (percent of total calories) for some users has been resolved. Users should now see accurate macronutrient distribution on daily summaries and reports.
Sleep Updates
- Naps included on Today: Naps are now included in the total sleep duration displayed on the Today tab. This change builds on recent nap-tracking improvements and ensures short sleep episodes are counted toward daily sleep totals, giving a fuller picture of overall rest.
Fitness and Activity Updates
- Fixed truncated heart rate charts and maps in exercise summaries: Some users experienced incomplete heart rate charts or truncated route maps that did not reflect the full duration of an activity. This update addresses those display issues so exercise summaries more reliably represent the full workout data.
Cycle Health Updates
- Easier trend views: Cycle history can now be viewed grouped chronologically by year. This organization makes it simpler to browse long-term cycle patterns, spot recurring trends, and compare data across years for better menstrual health insights.
Friends and Leaderboards Updates
- Inviting friends: A bug that prevented some iOS users from initiating new friend requests has been fixed. This should restore normal ability to add friends and participate in leaderboards and community challenges.
Overall, Google Health 5.04 focuses on making nutritional logging more flexible and accurate while polishing user experience issues across tracking categories. The custom food feature and quick log for calories and macros are especially useful for users who prepare meals at home, follow personalized meal plans, or frequently log foods that aren’t in standard databases. Accurate macronutrient percentages improve the reliability of dietary reports and make goal tracking clearer.
Sleep improvements that include naps in daily totals will help users who take short daytime rests track their overall recovery more accurately, and the fitness fixes ensure exercise summaries reflect the full session for better post-workout review. Cycle health’s chronological yearly view supports long-term pattern recognition, and the friends and leaderboards fix restores social features that many users rely on for motivation.
If you rely on Google Health for daily tracking, this update refines core functions and addresses common user requests. As with any rolling release, availability may vary by device and region; check your device’s app store for the latest version information and to ensure you have the most recent build installed.