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Samsung Health is an app that helps users improve their health and lose weight by analyzing exercise and activity. This app is available in the App Store and the Google Play Store. It is rated for users of all ages and does not feature in-app purchases or advertisements. This app can be safe for teens with some parental supervision.
What is Samsung Health?
Samsung Health is a Health & Fitness app that helps users improve their health and lose weight by analyzing exercise and activity.
The Samsung Health app is available in the App Store and the Google Play Store. It is rated for users of all ages and does not feature in-app purchases or advertisements.
If you’re looking to improve your health and meet weight loss goals, the popular Samsung Health app will help by analyzing your exercise and activity history. With the app’s trackers, you can keep track of your walking, running, cycling and other outdoor activities.
The app can also track information regarding your indoor activity. Your location data is collected during exercise and used to help find pharmacies or doctors in your area.
Samsung Health will help you to have a balanced lifestyle by recording your food, caffeine and water intake as well. Your sleep patterns and stress levels can also be monitored along with your heart rate, blood pressure and blood glucose levels.
Free exercise programs for weight loss, endurance training and building muscle are also available. A customized daily health news feed will be shown based on your preferences.
Once downloaded, users can open the app and after agreeing to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, you’re taken to a page where you can record your food and water intake, weight and details about exercise and sleep.
Click on the “Together” link and connect to friends or join global challenges to get fit with others. Click on “Discover” and be taken to articles, programs, products and promotions.
Apps similar to Samsung Health include Huawei Health and Endomondo Health & Fitness. As of 12/3/18, this app received updates which included performance improvements and bug fixes. On average, users give this app a rating of 4.2/5.0. There are few minor complaints about the app.
Is Samsung Health safe for my kids?
This app can be safe for older teens.
That being said, being a health and fitness app, it may require some supervision from parents or doctors when in use by a teen. Teens can easily slip into disordered thinking and habits when it comes to health and this app may act as a tool in that.
Content wise, there is nothing that should alarm parents, but they should know that there are news articles relating to health and fitness.
The “Together” area presents the opportunity to connect with other users. This could allow children to engage with predators and other inappropriate content.
The following themes are relevant to this app: location tracking and mature themes. Location tracking can be disabled, but then the app wouldn’t be able to recommend pharmacies and doctors in the user’s local area.
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