My new Pixel 9 foldable arrived yesterday, and I've transferred most of the data from my Pixel 6 Pro. My Fitbit data didn't make it across, and from what I gathered, the reason was that I didn't have it connected to Google's Health Connect cloud service. So I set that up on both my old and new phones, and new the last few weeks of data have indeed made it across. New data from my Pixel watch is getting added to my new phone, so yay.
But… Nearly 10 years' worth of data is still missing! Fitbit on my old phone includes data going all the way back to when I was using my Pebble watch, which I imported into Google Fit somewhere along the line, and then transferred to Fitbit when Google killed the Fit webapp and I got my Pixel watch.
How do I save this data? Can somebody please point me to detailed steps for uploading the complete set to Health Connect, or for exporting it to some file that I can then import to FitBit on my new phone? To be clear, this is not a connectivity issue: Fitbit has full access to Health Connect on both devices, and when I go to Health Connect on my new phone, I can see the updates appear. It's the historic data that's missing, anything from before the beginning of last month.
And yes, that historic data is important to me. I travel fulltime and my lifestyle and exercise patterns depend a lot on where I am in the world (Hilly or flat? Good transport or car dependence? Safe places to swim and cycle or not? Healthy food or suburbia?), and I want to compare current and historical fitness in different places, where I might not have been for a while. And Google is expecting me to send them my old phone as a trade-in, so I need to be able to do this soon.
Thanks!
