After years of trying to get past the FDA, Samsung is finally ready to offer Blood Pressure (BP) monitoring as a wearable feature in the US. Although instead of marketing it as a medical feature, the South Korean tech giant calls it a “health” tool.
Regardless, we’re excited that the functionality is finally here!
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Samsung announced the development in a new blog post, indicating that support has started rolling out today, and that the feature will start coming to wearable devices in stages.
Blood pressure monitoring is limited to Galaxy Watch 4 and later released models with Watch OS 4.0 or higher. Additionally, the companion smartphone must run Android OS 12 or higher.
It should be noted that this is not an independent feature. Just having a compatible Galaxy Watch 4 won’t unlock accurate BP tracking for you. To get things moving, you’ll need an old-fashioned upper arm blood pressure cuff. The cuff is required for “initial and periodic calibration (every 28 days).”
Essentially, your Galaxy watch will use cuff data to calibrate its internal sensors. Initial calibration needs to be done via the Samsung Health Monitor application.
Once available, users will be able to initiate BP readings from the widget section of their watch.
Find detailed instructions below:
Credit: Samsung
Credit: Samsung-
From your watch’s Home screen, swipe left to the Blood Pressure widget > Tap Measure.
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Follow the on-screen instructions > Tap OK.
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Sit quietly while the watch measures your blood pressure > Tap Done.
In addition to manual blood pressure readings, Samsung indicated that it will launch a “passive monitoring” tool “to show blood pressure trends over time.” It will be out sometime at the end of this year!
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