Important: Google Play services is different from the Google Play store.
Google Play services enables useful services on your device and helps make your device more secure and reliable. Fitness is one service that is provided as part of Google Play services. Learn more about Google Play services.
You can use Google Play services for fitness to:
- Track, record, store, and delete your fitness information.
- Link and unlink various apps and keep your data in sync across your apps and devices. For example, you may connect Google Fit to your favorite fitness app and keep your fitness data in sync on your Android phone and watch. Learn how to connect apps with Google Fit.
Important: Some fitness functionality works only on Android 8.1 and up. Learn how to check and update your Android version.
Control your preferences
Turn off body sensor data collection on your Wear OS device
- Go to Settings
Apps & notifications.
- Tap App permissions
.
Disable connected app or device access to Google Fit on your Android phone
- Go to Settings
- Tap Settings for Google apps
Manage or delete your Google Fit data on your Android phone
- Go to Settings
- Tap Settings for Google apps
How Google Play services for fitness handles your data
Google Play services for fitness may collect and share certain information and use certain permissions to support fitness related functionality on your device, such as the examples described above.
Permission useGoogle Play services for fitness may use device permissions such as:
Additional data collection
- Your location, which may be accessed to track your workouts like distance runs.
- Your physical activity, which may be accessed to track your step counts.
- Bluetooth and body sensors, which may be accessed to connect your fitness data to other apps and devices such as your Android watch.
To support fitness related functionality and show fitness data on your Google Fit app, Google Play services may collect and store the following personal data:
- Name
- Gender
- Height