In anticipation of the rumored summer release of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 9, Samsung announced that its Samsung Health app will receive a suite of new feature updates, beginning rollout on June 8.
The refreshed app will incorporate AI‑powered biometric tools designed to simplify complex health data and provide actionable guidance.
«Samsung Health is evolving to connect health data measured by Galaxy Watch with AI‑based insights, enabling users to understand their physical and mental condition more easily and intuitively,» said Hon Pak, senior vice president and head of the digital health team for the mobile experience business at Samsung Electronics.
Key additions to Samsung Health include:
- Vitals: Generates a daily energy score using heart rate, heart‑rate variability, respiratory rate, skin temperature and blood‑oxygen levels, benchmarked against your personal resting baseline. Significant shifts trigger a notification from the Galaxy Watch, suggesting rest or indicating possible illness.
- Heart Health Score: Expands on the watch’s existing vascular load metrics (sleep, stress, activity) by blending them with body‑composition data to produce a score that reflects how your habits influence long‑term heart health.
- Daily Cardio Load: Calculates how much cardiovascular strain you accumulate during cardio sessions, offering recommendations for optimal training intensity, rest periods, and injury prevention.
- Fitness Index: Compares your heart‑rate, VO₂ Max and daily step count with other Samsung Health users, highlighting strengths and weaknesses and delivering personalized improvement plans.
The app’s interface will also be reorganized into five categories—Sleep, Nutrition, Activity, Mindfulness and Vitals—to make data easier to locate and interpret.
Enhanced personalization will appear within each category. Nutrition, for instance, will feature an Antioxidant Index that evaluates how your daily food choices affect you physically, while an Ages Index will use nighttime data to illustrate the long‑term impact of lifestyle decisions.
A new hearing feature will capture ambient sound levels via the Galaxy Watch and suggest protective measures based on the analysis.
Samsung did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.
This update follows a broader trend among wellness wearables—such as the Oura ring and Whoop—leveraging AI to deliver advice and connect users with virtual clinicians based on the personalized data these devices collect.
