Cancelling Google Health Premium, the subscription that used to be Fitbit Premium, does not delete your Fitbit history: it runs to the end of the billing period, and Google says your Google Health Coach data is kept afterwards. The account matters more than the subscription. Since 19 May 2026 Fitbit works only with a Google Account, and Google set 15 July 2026 as the day it would begin deleting data from accounts that were not moved. Export your data with Google Takeout while the account is in use.
Google’s pages checked: 24 October 2026. This page is general information, not legal advice.
Premium is now Google Health Premium
“As of May 19, 2026, Fitbit Premium will be renamed Google Health Premium,” Google says, and the Fitbit app became the Google Health app (Google Health Help, redesigned app). Premium adds the Google Health Coach and workout and mindfulness videos (Google Health Help, Premium).
When you cancel, “Your subscription remains active until the end of your current billing period.” Google adds: “After Google Health Premium expires, the data in the Google Health Coach is still retained,” and you can delete it yourself. Uninstalling the app does not cancel the subscription (Google Health Help, cancel). Google’s export page does not tie the export to Premium.
The Fitbit account has moved to Google
“After May 19, 2026, you can no longer access Fitbit with your Fitbit account.” The one exception Google names is a Fitbit account created with a Gmail address, which can be used “as long as it’s supported” but still has to be moved. For accounts that were not moved, Google wrote: “You can still download or delete your data any time before we begin processing data deletions on July 15, 2026. The deletion process will take some time. Some users may be able to migrate their accounts during this period” (Google Health Help, moving your account). It has not said what has been deleted since, and its export page says: “Data isn’t available for deleted accounts.”
If you moved, “You’ll keep all historical data that you choose to move to your Google Account”, and your data is then handled under the Google Privacy Policy (Google Health Help, moving your account; Fitbit Privacy Policy).
Deletion clocks on a Google Account
Google “reserves the right to delete an inactive Google Account and its activity and data if you are inactive across Google for at least two years.” It also “reserves the right to delete data in a product if you are inactive in that product for at least two years”, according to each product’s own rules (Google Account Help, inactive accounts). Google’s privacy FAQ for Google Health says health and wellness data “are kept until you choose to delete the data or leave Google Health” and states no separate inactivity rule (Google, FAQs on Privacy: Google Health), but the account-wide policy still applies, so treat two years without using the Google Health app as a risk even if you still use Gmail.
Export before you stop
- With a Google Account: use Google Takeout and make sure Google Health is selected (Google Health Help, export). Google e-mails a link; it can take “from a few minutes to a few days”, and “Your archive expires in about 7 days” (Google Account Help, download your data).
- With an old Fitbit login, if it still works: on the Fitbit settings page, select Data Export, then under Export Your Account Archive, Request Data, and confirm by e-mail.
- GPS workouts: in the Google Health app, open the activity on the Fitness tab, tap More, then Export, for a TCX file.
Google’s export page gives “activity, exercise, sleep, and heart rate” as examples and does not mention HRV. If you use another app to copy your Fitbit data, check that it has moved to the Google Health API: the Fitbit developer site says the old Fitbit Web API “will be turned off” on 30 October 2026, and the Google Health API reference gives 2 November 2026 (Fitbit Developer; Google for Developers). How to export your HRV data covers what the files and the API hold.
Ask for a copy
- Where: Google’s privacy policy says you can “contact Google and our data protection office” about your rights. The link leads to its Privacy Help Center, where a data access form goes to Google’s “specialist privacy operations team”; Google says these requests take longer than its self-service tools (Google, Privacy Help Center). For a Fitbit account never moved to Google, the Fitbit Privacy Policy names its Data Protection Officer at data-protection-office@fitbit.com.
- What to ask for: be specific. Google says a request for “All data” will first be answered with its online tools, and its team may ask you to narrow it down. Name the data the export leaves out, such as nightly HRV and the readings behind it, and heart rate at the finest detail Google holds. Fitbit’s own developer documentation offered heart rate at “1sec, 1min, 5min or 15min” detail (Fitbit Developer, intraday). Add the dates and a format such as CSV or JSON. Wearable data rights explains the argument for the full detail and its limits.
- When: Google states no deadline; it says that if a request needs more time, it will tell you the extended period. Under the GDPR and the UK GDPR the answer is due within one month, extendable by two more where necessary because of the complexity or number of requests (GDPR Article 12). Under the GDPR the first copy is free (Article 15(3)); a company may refuse even a first request only exceptionally, if it proves the request was made with an abusive intention (Court of Justice, C-526/24).
The data request letter builder has Google’s route and puts these points into a text you can paste into the form. If there is no answer in time, wearable data rights covers reminders and complaints. Fitbit and Pixel Watch HRV explains what the nightly HRV number measures.