Your Fitbit Air can now store blood pressure readings, with one catch

Blood pressure logging is arriving for Fitbit Air owners Published Nov 11, 2026, 7:25 AM EST I've been covering Android and other mobile technology for close to ten years now, with a specific interest in phone accessories, e-readers, and what makes each individual phone different from another. I delight in looking at the phone market from as many angles as possible, and while my opinions may be odd, at times, they're always from the heart as much as the head. I have a background in the mobile accessories world, which explains my odd enthusiasm for cases and things that clip onto smartphones. I worked for Digital Trends from 2017 to 2025. Sign in to your Android Police account Fitbit Air owners have noticed that blood pressure tracking has appeared on their Google Health accounts, giving another health metric to track. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean the Fitbit Air is capable of measuring blood pressure yet. Instead, it's simply opened up the ability to manually track blood pressure trends. Fitbit Air owners can now monitor blood pressure trends You'll need a way to measure it, though The Fitbit Edge debuted a new feature for Google's Fitbit devices — the ability to track blood pressure trends across a set period of time. Using a combination of the device's motion and health sensors, it can, in theory, monitor if your blood pressure has meaningfully changed across the week, month, or any other period. It's important to note that this feature does not measure your blood pressure. Instead, it looks out for signs that your blood pressure may have changed. So, if it's important for you to keep an eye on your blood pressure, you'll need a separate device to do it for you. At the moment, the Fitbit Air does not have the ability to track these trends, but a recent addition to the Google Health app has people hoping that will soon change. According to a number of Air owners on Reddit, the option to log blood pressure in Google Health has finally appeared for them, allowing them to input the raw numbers from a blood pressure monitor and keep track of it in the app. While this may not seem like much — the app is shared by other devices which can track blood pressure, after all — this tracking feature has been missing for those with an Air, despite supposedly rolling out in update 5.12 last week. As ever with these sorts of updates, it hasn't arrived on every single app out there, with a staged rollout seemingly being in effect. Some people aren't able to upgrade to version 5.12 yet, and even some of those who are don't have the ability to log their blood pressure. We already knew the Fitbit Air would be getting access to the blood pressure monitoring and insulin resistance trend monitoring, but there's been a question mark over how long it would take for the feature to go active. With blood pressure logging opening up to Air owners, it's hoped it won't be too much longer before the Fitbit Air is able to keep a close eye on how your blood pressure might be doing. On the whole, this is good news, and while it does require you to have a blood pressure measuring device to take advantage of it at the moment, the fact it's being opened up to Air owners hopefully means a final update to deliver the two new features is coming to the Air soon. Fitbit Air 8.5/10 Battery Life 7 days Health sensors Optical heart rate, 3-axis accelerometer, temperature sensor Dimensions 35 x 17 x 8.3mm (Module) Water Resistance 50 meters