MyFitnessPal's New UI Update: What Changed (and How to Leave Without Losing Your Data)

What Actually Changed in the New MyFitnessPal Update

If you opened MyFitnessPal recently and felt like someone moved your furniture overnight, you're not the only one. The redesign reorganises the home screen around cards and recommendations, shifts where the food diary and quick-add live, and adds more surface area for prompts, insights, and Premium upsells. None of it is catastrophic on its own — but when an app you use every single day changes the muscle memory you built over years, every extra tap feels like sand in the gears.

The most common complaints showing up in reviews and on Reddit cluster around a few themes: logging a meal takes more steps than it used to, the home screen feels busier and slower to parse, familiar buttons moved, and the whole thing nudges harder toward Premium. Credit where it's due — MyFitnessPal still has the largest food database on the market, and for some people the new layout will grow on them. But "get used to it" is a hard sell when the previous version already did the job.

Can You Get the Old MyFitnessPal Layout Back?

Short answer: no. MyFitnessPal doesn't offer a setting to roll back to a previous interface version, and there's no supported way to downgrade the app and keep it that way — the app updates server-side and through the App Store regardless. A few things that genuinely help if you want to stay:

• Rebuild your quick-log shortcuts. Re-pin or re-favourite the foods and meals you log most so they're one tap from the new home screen.
• Turn off what you can. Dial back notifications and prompts in Settings to quiet some of the noise.
• Give it two weeks. Some of the friction is genuinely just relearning where things are.

If you've tried that and the app still fights you every time you log lunch, the honest move is to look at what else is out there — and the only thing that's ever really made switching painful is the data.

The Real Blocker: Your Years of Food History

Most people who are frustrated with an app update don't leave, and the reason is almost always the same: switching trackers has traditionally meant abandoning years of logged meals, trend lines, and habit data. Starting from zero feels worse than tolerating a layout you dislike. That math is exactly why a redesign rarely causes a mass exodus — the lock-in isn't the features, it's the history.

That's the part worth solving before you decide. If your history could come with you, the cost of leaving drops to almost nothing, and the decision becomes purely about which app you'd rather open every day.

How to Leave MyFitnessPal Without Losing Your Data

MyFitnessPal lets you export your full food log as a CSV from myfitnesspal.com (Settings → Export Data — it's a website-only feature, not in the mobile app). That export is the key: any app that can read it can rebuild your history.

Bento Bunny — an AI calorie tracker for iOS — built a first-class MyFitnessPal importer specifically for this. You drop in the CSV, it shows you a preview (date range, entry count, and how many would be duplicates), and on confirm it rebuilds your log with dates, meal types, calories, and macros — protein, carbs, fat, plus sugar, fibre, and sodium where present — intact. The whole thing takes about five minutes, and it deduplicates automatically so an overlapping range never doubles up. After that, logging is a photo instead of a database search: point your camera at the plate, and the AI handles identification, portions, and macros in seconds. The AI runs on-device on iOS 26 and later, so your meal photos never leave your phone, and barcode scanning isn't paywalled.

We wrote the exact click-by-click version of this — export, preview, import, what's preserved and what isn't — in the full switch guide: Switch from MyFitnessPal to Bento Bunny.

Is It Worth Switching, Honestly?

If you mainly eat packaged foods with barcodes, need deep micronutrient tracking, or you're already comfortable in MyFitnessPal despite the redesign, staying is a perfectly reasonable call — the database depth is real. But if the new UI made an everyday task annoying, and the only thing keeping you was your data, that blocker is now removable. You can bring your history to a faster, quieter app in about the time it takes to make coffee — and you can export back out whenever you like, so trying it costs you nothing.