Use and manage trackers in Samsung Health on your Galaxy phone or Samsung smartwatch

Last Update date : Sep 28. 2021
Use and manage trackers in Samsung Health on your Galaxy phone or Samsung smartwatch

Samsung Health has everything you need to stay fit and active. It not only tracks exercise, it can also track your heart rate, stress levels, sleep, water intake, and more. With activity trackers, taking care of your health just became easier.

Note: Information provided applies to devices sold in Canada. Available screens and settings may vary for smartphones sold in other countries. Samsung Health is intended for fitness and informational purposes only and is not intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.

Note: Samsung Health includes several activity trackers that can be rearranged, added, and deleted on the Home tab. After rearranging your trackers, you can keep track of your activities by setting up target goals.

1 Navigate to and open the Samsung Health app.
2 On the Home tab, swipe to and tap Manage items at the bottom of the screen. You can also touch and hold your desired tracker on the Home tab to bring up the edit menu.
On the Home tab, swipe to and tap Manage items at the bottom of the screen. You can also touch and hold your desired tracker on the Home tab to bring up the edit menu.
3 From here, you can add, remove, and rearrange trackers. To rearrange them, touch and hold the one you want to move, and then drag it where you want.
4 To remove or add a tracker, tap either the red minus sign or the green plus sign in the upper right corner of the tracker. You can always add removed trackers back later.
To remove or add a tracker, tap either the red minus sign or the green plus sign in the upper right corner of the tracker. You can always add removed trackers back later.
5 When you are finished, tap Save.

Here is a list of all available trackers:

  • Active time: View your walking and running times, calories burned, and distance in one easy, convenient location.
  • Exercise: This tracker shows data from the different workouts you have done.
  • Food: See the types of food you have eaten and how many calories you have consumed.
  • Sleep: Make sure you are getting the right amount of sleep.
  • Weight: Keep track of your weight and changes over time.
  • Stress: Monitor your stress level and do breathing exercises. Only available on models with a heart rate sensor.
  • Blood glucose: Track your blood glucose levels and when you took the measurement.
  • Blood pressure: Keep your levels in check so you can be healthy.
  • Blood oxygen: Track your blood's oxygen levels to ensure it is stable.
  • Water: Keep track of how much water you drink and set a goal to increase your intake.
  • Heart rate: Monitor your heart rate by beats per minute. Only available on models with a heart rate sensor or phones that are connected to a smartwatch or fitness band.
  • Women's health: Track your menstrual cycle.

The Galaxy Watch4 series has all your favorite trackers and then some, such as the new Body composition and Together trackers, as well as Google Fit trackers.

To use these trackers on the watch, swipe up to access the Apps screen, and then open Samsung Health. Swipe up or down to see the available activity trackers.

Activity trackers on the Galaxy Watch4 series

You can choose from the following:

  • Daily activity tracker: View your current step count, active time, and calories burned in one easy, convenient location.
  • Steps: View how many steps you have taken so far today.
  • Exercise: This tracker shows data from the different workouts you have done. You can also turn on Auto detect so your watch will detect certain exercise automatically. Swimming is a new exercise that can be detected!

Note: Cycling is not supported in Auto detect on the Galaxy Watch4 series.

  • Sleep: Make sure you are getting the right amount of sleep.
  • Heart rate: Monitor your heart rate by beats per minute.
  • Stress: Monitor your stress level and do breathing exercises. Only available on models with a heart rate sensor.
  • Blood oxygen: Track your blood’s oxygen levels to ensure it is stable.
  • Body composition: Measures the percentage of body fat you have. This feature is new to the Galaxy Watch4 series.
  • Food: See the types of food you have eaten and how many calories you have consumed.
  • Water: Keep track of how much water you drink and set a goal to increase your intake.
  • Women's health: Track your menstrual cycle.

Note: These details also apply to the Galaxy Watch series (excluding the Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic), Gear Sport, and Gear S3. However, some trackers listed below may not be available depending on your software version.

There is no need to have multiple exercise or health apps. The Samsung Health app on Samsung smart watches keeps all the activity trackers in one place.

From the watch's Home screen, navigate to and open Samsung Health. Swipe up or down to see the available activity trackers.

Activity trackers on a Galaxy Watch (previous models)

You can choose from the following:

  • Pedometer: Tracks your steps and measures the distance you have traveled. You can set target goals by tapping the Settings icon.
  • Floors: Tracks the number of floors you climb. Every 10 feet you climb is counted as a floor. You can set target goals by tapping the Settings icon.
  • Exercise: Select the workout you want to track. You can find out information like your heart rate and how many calories you have burned.
  • Calories burned: Track calories burned during activities and rest.
  • Sleep: Automatically records your sleep using motion data.
  • Heart Rate: Records your heart rate throughout the day and displays your average heart rate.
  • Stress: Measure your stress level and relieve it with a breathing exercise.
  • Calories: Record your calorie intake.
  • Weight management: Track your calories burned, calorie intake, and target weight goal.
  • Water: Record your water intake.
  • Caffeine: Record your caffeine intake.
  • Together: Compare your weekly step count with friends.
  • Women's health: Track your menstrual cycle.

Note: If you would like to add a tracker as a widget, just swipe left on the Home screen.

No matter what your health and exercise goals are, you can find all the help you need on your Galaxy Fit or with the Galaxy Wearable app. The best part is all your fitness and health trackers will be in one place, so they are easy to find.

Press the Power key and then swipe left on the screen to access the different trackers. Swipe up to view more options for each tracker. As a shortcut, you can also press and hold the Power key to begin a workout.

Activity trackers on a Galaxy Fit

The following trackers are available for your Galaxy Fit:

  • Pedometer: Tracks your steps and measures the distance you have traveled. You can set target goals by tapping Set target.
  • Calories: Record your calorie intake.
  • Heart rate: Measure your heart rate or have it automatically record throughout the day and display your average heart rate.
  • Exercise: Tap the exercise icon that displays, and then select the workout you want to track. You can find out information like your heart rate and how many calories you have burned.
  • Caffeine: Record your caffeine intake.
  • Water: Record your water intake.
  • Stress: Measure your stress level and relieve it with a breathing exercise.
  • Sleep: Automatically records your sleep using motion data.

Note: If you are unable to find certain trackers on your Galaxy Fit, just add trackers using the widget menu in the Galaxy Wearable app on your phone. Floors tracker, Food logging, and Together are not available on the Galaxy Fit.

No matter what your health and exercise goals are, you can find all the help you need on your Galaxy Fit2 or with the Galaxy Wearable app. The best part is all your fitness and health trackers will be in one place, so they are easy to find.

Press the Home key and then swipe left on the screen to access the different trackers. Swipe up to view more options for each tracker. As a shortcut, you can also press and hold the Power key to begin a workout.

Activity trackers on a Galaxy Fit2

The following trackers are available for your Galaxy Fit2:

  • Health summary: View your activity and health information, such as steps, calories burned, and real-time heart rate. Swipe up or down to view your health information.
  • Exercise: Record your exercise information and check the results, such as burned calories. Tap Select workout and select an exercise to start tracking. Tap Finish to stop tracking your exercise.
  • Stress: Calculate and record your stress level by measuring changes in your heart rate. Tap Measure to record your stress level.
  • Stopwatch and timer: The stopwatch can time events down to a hundredth of a second. Tap Stopwatch and then Start to begin timing. Tap Stop to end timing.
  • Weather: View weather information on your Galaxy Fit2 for the locations you have set up on your phone.
  • Hand wash: Tap Wash now to start a 25 second timer. To enable hand washing reminders in Galaxy Wearable, just tap the switch next to "Hand wash".
  • Heart rate: Measure your heart rate or have it automatically record throughout the day and display your average heart rate.
  • Sleep: Automatically records your sleep using motion data.
  • Pedometer: Tracks your steps and measures the distance you have traveled. You can set target goals by tapping Set target.
  • Water: Record your water intake.
  • Calendar: Keep track of important upcoming events and appointments.
  • Music: Control the music playing on your phone from your wrist. Swipe up for more control options.

Note: If you are unable to find certain trackers on your Galaxy Fit2, just add trackers using the widget menu in the Galaxy Wearable app on your phone. Floors tracker, Food logging, and Together are not available on the Galaxy Fit2.

You go for a jog every morning, but are you pushing yourself hard enough? In the Samsung Health app, you can set targets based on your goals, weight, and other factors. Once you set a target, you can view it on the Home tab to see if you reached your goal for the day. If you are using a Samsung smart watch, your targets and goals will automatically sync in Samsung Health on both the watch and your connected phone.

Navigate to and open the Samsung Health app. Tap your desired tracker, and then tap the More options icon (the three vertical dots). Tap Set target.

Set a target in a tracker

Then, swipe left or right to increase or decrease the target. The tracker will now display your custom target on the Home tab.

And do not forget, you can always customize the Home tab in Samsung Health, so it will show you exactly what you want to see.

Note: On some trackers, you may need to adjust the slider to enable targets. The available options for setting up targets may vary depending on the activity tracker.

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