Samsung's Health App Might Be Getting An Ai Health Coach - What We Know

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Samsung's Health app appears to beryllium getting an AI assistant.
• The adjunct tin reply health- and wellness-related questions.
• The AI wellness coach can't diagnose aliases dainty aesculapian conditions. 

Samsung has made awesome investments successful its wellness technology, and that ngo looks to beryllium continuing pinch a caller Health app. Samsung is rolling retired an AI wellness coach called "Samsung Health Assistant," Android Authority recovered while digging astir Samsung's beta connected nan Health app. 

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The AI-powered assistant, presumably powered by Google's Gemini (which powers its Galaxy Watches), will reportedly reply questions connected wellness and wellness. It offers tips and encourages users to log wellness data. The chatbot can't diagnose aliases dainty aesculapian conditions, but it tin reply personification questions astir health, sleep, and activity-related topics. 

Earlier this summer, Samsung unveiled its AI-powered Running Coach characteristic alongside nan merchandise of its caller lineup of Galaxy Watches. Running Coach takes activity data, measures moving expertise done a short moving test, and past creates a personalized scheme users tin travel to execute their desired gait aliases hole for their adjacent race. Health Assistant could propose much contented akin to Running Coach, but pinch different activities -- perchance swimming aliases cycling -- successful mind. 

In Android Authority's surface signaling of nan Health Assistant beta, nan AI offers a action of activities users could participate successful to summation their regular activity goals aft it notices that nan user's activity level is low. 

Samsung Health Assistant is expected to motorboat later this year, according to Android Authority. 

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AI-powered wellness assistants are a basking commodity successful nan wearables space. Whoop, Oura, and now Samsung each person AI-powered chatbots of their own. Google is redesigning its Fitbit acquisition to see 1 arsenic well. There's speculation that Apple is processing one, which could spot a 2026 rollout.  

Upon rollout, users will beryllium capable to entree nan Health Assistant by clicking connected nan chat icon successful nan apical correct area of nan Health app.