Health Connect FAQ to Access Samsung Health Data

Yes. Samsung Health synchronizes data with Health Connect since version 6.22.5 (October 2022) and later. To read Samsung Health data or insert your application data to Samsung Health through Health Connect APIs, data permission must be granted for Health Connect.

Health data from the Galaxy Watch is transferred to the Samsung Health application on the user’s smartphone and synchronized to Health Connect.

For more information, see Accessing Samsung Health Data through Health Connect.

The Health Connect application can be installed on Android mobile devices. It does not support Wear OS devices.

Activity data, such as steps and exercise, heart rate, and sleep, are synchronized between Samsung Health and Health Connect.

For more information, see Accessing Samsung Health Data through Health Connect.

Yes, indirectly. Health data on the Galaxy Watch is sent to the Samsung Health application on the user’s smartphone and can be synchronized to Health Connect. For battery life reasons, the timing and frequency of data synchronization between the Galaxy Watch and Samsung Health follows its own policy.

On the smartphone, if Samsung Health and Health Connect have been linked for data synchronization, Samsung Health inserts or updates its data to Health Connect as soon as data is created or changed.

For more information, see the Accessing Samsung Health Data through Health Connect blog post.

To make sure that data synchronization between Samsung Health and Health Connect is working correctly:

  1. Check that the latest Samsung Health version is installed.
    To get Galaxy Watch data, make sure to also check the Samsung Health application version on the watch.

  2. Enable data permissions in the Samsung Health application. In Samsung Health, go to Settings > Health Connect > App permissions > Samsung Health.

  1. In Samsung Health, go to 'Settings > Sync with Samsung account' and tap 'Sync now' .