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Track steps when mowing/pushing stroller using GPS

Status: Reviewed By Moderator Submitted by on ‎08-15-2025 09:47
2 Comments (2 New)

If you start a walking exercise and have GPS enabled, if the watch isn't counting steps because you're holding something, the exercise/GPS should be able to estimate steps. Currently, the watch/app is ignoring the GPS and exercise if it's not registering steps.


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LizzyFitbit
Premium User
Fitbit Moderator
Fitbit Moderator
‎08-18-2025 11:42
‎08-18-2025 11:42

Hi @ZP1220, and thanks for taking the time to share this product feedback about allowing your Google Pixel Watch to track steps when mowing or pushing a stroller using GPS with us. We rely on feedback like yours to help us develop products and features that we know our community wants to see. If this product feedback receives votes from other customers and gains popularity, it will be shared internally with various teams at Fitbit. To learn more about how Fitbit decides what product feedback is developed, visit our FAQs.

Watch this space for status updates. In the meantime, try visiting Health & Wellness to talk with other members about all things health and fitness.

BRENTET1955
First Steps
‎02-20-2026 15:01
‎02-20-2026 15:01

I see the same issue with my Pixel 4 watch. I previously owned a Samsung Galaxy watch.  It had no problem tracking my steps when mowing the lawn. I've also noticed that my Pixel 10 phone is tracking the steps in Health Connect but the steps tracked by the phone aren't communicated to the Fitbit app and subsequently don't show up on my watch.  I've cleared cache in Fitbit on both devices and double checked the settings in Health Connect.

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