You can’t find a single major company in tech today that isn’t intensely focused on health and fitness, and Google is no different. Back in March, the company unveiled a new way to track your heart rate and breathing on Android without any additional hardware.
If you’ve recently upgraded to a Pixel 6 and have been dying to give it a shot, the feature is now available — though it might not be as accurate as it once was.
As spotted by 9to5Google, Google’s latest smartphones are gaining support for heart rate and respiratory tracking in “early access” — at least, for some users. Among AP staff, it seems to be a toss-up between not having it at all and it appearing as usual — without any “early access” tag. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason for its various states, other than falling victim to a classic Google server-side rollout.
