TL;DR
- The Pixel Watch 3 is finally adding menstrual health features right on your wrist.
- This will let you log periods, view cycle status, and predict your next periods.
- The feature will roll out with the March Pixel Drop for the Pixel Watch 3.
Ever since the original Pixel Watch launched, I’ve been lamenting the complete absence of period tracking on the watch. Sure, I can open the Fitbit app and (buggily) track my menstrual health or log a period, but the option wasn’t there on my wrist on the smartwatch that, you know, I supposedly bought to track my overall health. Clearly, women’s health — and providing half of the population with an essential feature — wasn’t on Google engineers’ minds. Not the first time this has happened, and Google is not the first company to forget it, either. (Yes, I am bitter.)
Now, three years later, period tracking is finally coming to the Pixel Watch 3. Not the Watch 2 nor the original Watch, though, because apparently tapping a couple of buttons requires super advanced hardware and capabilities /s. But I digress. It’s finally a reality, despite being arbitrarily feature-locked to the latest Pixel Watch.
Google hasn’t told us much about how this will work, but we know that you’ll be able to see your cycle status and your predicted period, as well as actively log a new period. The image above is all we have, so it looks like it’ll be part of the Fitbit app. I’d love to see a dedicated tile, too, so I don’t have to scroll through a million stats to get to this option, but we won’t know if that’ll also be available until the feature rolls out. It’s expected to come with the March Pixel Drop, so it should, hopefully, hit our watches in the next few days.
I’m really excited to see this. For the last few years, I’ve tracked my period in the Fitbit app, and it’s been an absolute shit show, especially when I’m one day late to enter it. Dragging the handles across the calendar works in mysterious and very buggy ways. Sometimes, it won’t even let me go back one day until I’ve expanded it further ahead in the future multiple days. That’s why I’ve always wanted the option on my wrist, because it’ll be easier to do it on the first day without having to remember to open the Fitbit app on my phone, and it should also avoid that silly buggy phone experience. At least, I hope it will.
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