[Investigating] (Android) Steps are not counted for child accounts

Description: An issue was reported that the steps may not be counted or added when logged in with a child account on an Android device.

Status: Investigating.

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when will it be solved???

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It’s not only childs account, I’m walking my ass of getting through level 25, now 26. Walk like 8000 steps a day, the next day i have to do it al over again. It only remembers about 2000 steps or so.

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That was this morning, this was yesterday evening

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I tink i found de problem kids kent daunlode google fit but it dasent ekspleen waj mai level dasent chans

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Why is this still open after 2 years? Makes my son sad

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It doesn’t work my kid has took over 10000 steps and is still stuck on 0/500 on level 2 and before you ask he already has 4 pikmin

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the steps not be counted or added when logged in with a child account on an Android device still now.

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Any updates on this 2 year old issue? The general fix appears to be to have to use Google Fit, however a child account on Google can not use this in the UK until after they turn 16 years old.

The annoying thing is that the daily step count is showing steps so the app must be able to count steps…