Galaxy watch not syncing with samsung health

Start healthy habits for yourself with Samsung Health.

Samsung Health has various features to help you manage your health. As the app allows you to automatically record many activities, creating a healthy lifestyle is easier and simpler than ever.

Check various health records on the Samsung Health home screen. Easily add and edit the items that you want to manage such as daily steps, activity time, and body weight.

Samsung Health helps you record and manage your fitness activities, such as running, cycling, swimming, etc. Also, Galaxy Watch wearables user can now exercise more effectively through Life Fitness, Technogym and Corehealth.

Develop healthy eating habits with Samsung Health, with which you can record your meals and snacks every day.

Work hard and always maintain your best condition with Samsung Health. Set goals that work for your own level, and keep track of your daily condition including your activity amount, workout intensity, state of sleep, heart rate, stress, oxygen level in the blood, etc.

Monitor your sleep patterns in more detail with Galaxy Watch. Make your mornings more refreshing by improving the quality of your sleep through sleep levels and sleep scores.

Challenge yourself against your friends and family to become healthier in a more fun and interactive way with Samsung Health Together.

Samsung Health has prepared videos of expert coaches who will teach you new fitness programs including stretching, weight loss, endurance training, and more.

Discover powerful meditation tools on Mindfulness that will help you relieve stress throughout your day.

(Some contents are only available through an optional paid subscription. Content is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Korean.)

Women's health offers helpful support in menstrual cycle tracking, related symptom management and personalized insights and contents through your partner, Glow. The Galaxy and other wearables are now ready to support the women we love every step of their way.

Samsung Health protects your private health data securely. All Samsung Galaxy models released after August 2016, Knox enabled Samsung Health service will be available. Please note that Knox enabled Samsung Health service will not be available from rooted mobile.

Tablets and some mobile devices are not supported, and detailed features may vary depending on the user’s country of residence, region, network carrier, model of the device, etc.

Requires Android 8.0 (Oreo)or later. Supports over 70 languages, including English, French, and Chinese. An English language version is available for the rest of the world.

Please note that Samsung Health is intended for fitness and wellness 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.

The following permissions are required for the app service. For optional permissions, the default functionality of the service is turned on, but not allowed.

Required permissions
- Phone : Used to confirm your phone number for Together.

Optional permissions
- Location : Used to collect your location data using the trackers(exercises & steps), Used to display a route map for exercise, and to display the weather during exercise.
- Body Sensors : Used to measure heart rate, oxygen saturation, and stress. (HR&Stress : Galaxy S5~Galaxy S10 / SpO2 : Galaxy Note4~Galaxy S10)
- Storage : You can import/export your exercise data, save exercise photos, save/load food photos.
- Contacts : Used to check if you are logged into your Samsung account, and to create a friend list for Together.
- Camera : Used to scan QR codes when you add friends using the Together, and to take photos of foods, and to recognize numbers on a blood glucose meter&blood pressure monitor. (Available in some countries only)
- Physical activity : Used to count your steps and to detect workouts.
- Microphone : Used to record audio for snore detection.

Hopefully this helps someone else. After charging my watch every day, Samsung health would not sync data from the watch. If I pulled down the me screen it would say “No wearable device connected.” Something like that. I used to go through a whole routine of restarting the watch, the phone, then removing the watch from Bluetooth accessories on phone and re-pairing. That usually fixed it up until the next time I charged the watch.

Today I finally figured out the quickest fix. Put the watch in airplane mode. Then turn airplane mode back off. Then go to the galaxy watch app on the phone and touch the 3 vertical dots in the upper right. On the pop up menu at the bottom select “connect new device”. This will re-pair and sync. Then when I open Samsung health it immediately syncs the heart rate and sleep data from the watch.

Still not ideal, but at least that only takes a minute vs my old way.

Why is my Samsung watch not syncing with Samsung Health?

If your Samsung Health data isn't syncing automatically between your watch and phone, you should check your network connection and make sure the app is updated. If your watch was set up without a phone, then your most recent activity is stored only on the watch and you will not be able to view it on your phone.

How do I sync my Samsung Health with my Samsung watch?

Navigate to and open the Samsung Health app. Tap Menu (the three horizontal lines), and then tap Settings. Tap Sync with Samsung account, and then tap the switch at the top of the screen. Additionally, you can tap the switch next to Sync only on Wi-Fi if you're worried about using data.

Why are my Samsung Watch and phone not syncing?

If your watch will not pair to a phone, or if it randomly disconnects, restart your watch. You should also make sure the Galaxy wearable app is up to date, but it may be necessary to reset the app and unpair your watch.

Why aren't my steps updating on my Samsung watch?

If the step and heart rate tracking features are not working properly on your watch, the watch band or strap may be too loose or the watch's software might need updating. However, a simple reboot may solve the problem.