Samsung has announced a major update to the Samsung Health app, which comes with a UI redesign and introduces new health features supported by the upcoming Galaxy Watch.
Talking about the design, the update introduces a streamlined layout with five categories: Sleep, Activity, Nutrition, Mindfulness, and Vitals. Users can now access their daily wellness tips and AI-powered energy scores on the home screen to easily track various aspects of their health.
As for the new features, Samsung has announced Vitals, Heart Health Score, Daily Cardio Load, and Fitness Index, which will first be available on the upcoming Galaxy Watch.
The Vitals feature analyzes five key nighttime bio-signals against your actual resting baseline when you wake up: heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, skin temperature and blood oxygen. And it sends you notifications only when it detects meaningful deviations, helping you better determine whether you’re fighting an illness or simply need more rest.
The Vascular Load feature introduced by Samsung has now evolved into Heart Health Score. It combines your body composition data with metrics like sleep, stress and activity from vascular load, generating an integrated score that provides clear insight into your cardiovascular health and helps identify habits that impact your long-term well-being.
Next is the Daily Cardio Load feature, which measures accumulated cardiovascular stress and calculates daily load and maximum training capacity to recommend optimal training targets and rest times. It helps users reach their goals without any discomfort or risk of injury.
Finally, we have the Fitness Index feature, which analyzes a user’s heart rate, VO2 Max, and daily steps, and compares them with their peers to make sure their exercise routines are delivering results. The feature also identifies the user’s physical strengths and weaknesses to provide tailored content and personalized goals for continuous improvement.
In addition to these new features, the Samsung Health app update also improves the AGEs Index to automatically capture overnight measurements and provide a long-term overview of how a user’s lifestyle choices are impacting their body.
Additionally, Samsung has improved the antioxidant index, which now provides users with a clear roadmap of their nutritional intake. It uses new trend charts and daily history logs to link users’ dietary choices to physical responses over time.
The Samsung Health app update also introduces a new Hearing Health feature that monitors ambient noise through the Galaxy Watch and provides personalized analytics to help protect users’ ears in noisy environments.
Samsung said in its official press release, “These advancements offer a glimpse of the future of Samsung Health – a future that will be fully realized with the launch of the next generation of Samsung’s Galaxy Watch, engineered to bring this active intelligence to life like never before.“
So Samsung has basically confirmed that its next-generation Galaxy Watch series will include multiple Galaxy Watches, without naming them or saying how many smartwatches it will launch next. Rumors claim there will be three of them – the Galaxy Watch9, the Galaxy Watch9 Classic, and the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2. And we expect to see them officially on July 22, when the Galaxy Z Flip8, Galaxy Z Fold8, and Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra are rumored to be unveiled.
Coming back to the Samsung Health app update, Samsung said it will be rolling out starting June 8, but owners of existing Galaxy Watches will have to wait to try out the new features, as they will be available on the next-generation Galaxy Watches for the first time.