Samsung Health is a comprehensive health tracking app. Developed by Samsung together with the WellDoc therapeutic association. The program receives all information from Samsung wearable devices and the integrated sensors of the smartphone itself. You can install it on phones running Android (OS 5.0 and above) and iOS (OS 7 and above).
Samsung Health – what functions does it perform?
Samsung Health operates as a health center. Workouts, water intake, even connect to your running app to get all the information you need in one place. There's a lot going on in this app, but the goal is to give you control over your health.
When you're out walking the dog or going for a run, your phone will detect motion and track it for you. The app's main page has various activities you'll want to track, including daily steps, heart rate, and stress, but you can customize it to your liking to even track things like water intake, caffeine, sleep, and weight management. There are also dedicated activity trackers for various exercises, including running, cycling and hiking.
Mi Health - what is this application?
Xiaomi Mi Health is a program designed to track health indicators such as activity, sleep, menstrual cycle and weight-to-height ratio. Some data (for example, the number of steps taken) is read automatically, but the user must enter the rest of the information himself. Based on the specified parameters, the application provides health points .
Unfortunately, Mi Health was not publicly available. The program was spotted in the Chinese beta firmware MIUI 9.7.23. But third-party developers have turned it into a separate apk file that can be installed by any owner of a Xiaomi or Redmi phone.
Mi Health works without being tied to a fitness bracelet , unlike Mi Fit. Therefore, this tool will appeal to users who do not have a sports tracker. Without a special gadget, you can track basic physical indicators.
How to set up and complete your Samsung Health user profile
Your user profile in Samsung Health is how you track your activities in the app. You can add your photo, nickname, and email address for aesthetic purposes, but it's other information that will really help you. Add height, weight, gender, age and your activity level to truly make Samsung Health yours.
Your profile includes rewards for staying active, personal bests during workouts, weekly summaries of your activity, and a history of all the programs you choose to participate in. Essentially, your profile gives you an in-depth look at your progress and you get small rewards for taking steps towards a healthier lifestyle.
Benefits of the Samsung Health app
- Healthy Goal
On the path to a harmonious body and pleasure from the rhythm of your life, every step is important. With the application, you can reach your goal in small but confident steps. Set your individual goal and watch your well-being change for the better.
Healthy Goal
- Helpful information
Use the app to learn useful information about sports and a balanced diet. Track your performance, compare your present self with your past self. After 10 minutes of active walking, the application automatically starts counting steps. The smartphone measures your pulse, heart rate, and voltage.
- Voltage control
Motion recognition helps the application understand what type of activity you are currently engaged in and record it in the program's memory. You can monitor your load by reducing it in time and compensating with breathing exercises.
Voltage control
- Heart rate control
Monitor your pulse to know your sports norm and not overdo it with the load.
Heartbeat control
- Meditation
Psychological comfort is no less important than physical condition. You can create an account with Samsung account and Calm to access meditation techniques and body relaxation exercises. Among other things, you can familiarize yourself in the program with video lessons, materials on the correct execution of exercises and methods of meditation.
Meditation
- Motivation
The application supports sharing indicators, receiving awards and bonuses, and competing with other Samsung Health users.
- Synchronization
The service can be connected to other brand devices, for example, fitness bracelets. This allows you to comprehensively track your well-being and sports success.
- Safety
You don't have to worry about someone hacking your account or harming you in any way using the app. To protect Samsung Health, it uses Samsung Knox, an advanced security system.
How to Set Achievable Goals in Samsung Health
Once you have decided which habits you want to change or track, the next thing on your mind should be setting goals. There are weight management goals, fitness goals and more.
Your profile should be set up in advance as these goals are based on changing your current habits.
Once you've set a goal, you'll see an indicator at the top of the Samsung Health app home page that shows how far you've progressed towards that goal. If you click on the indicator, a breakdown of your daily activity, calories burned and additional information directly related to your goal will be highlighted. There's also a page showing long-term trends to track your progress and rewards for achieving your goals.
What kind of program: overview of capabilities
To fully use the application, it is important to know the features of Samsung Health, what kind of program it is, and what functions are available to smartphone owners. Users have at their disposal a full range of options aimed at analyzing a person’s physical activity throughout the day and then displaying the results. Analysis of the information received allows you to adjust your diet, add physical activity and solve other problems.
Samsung Health has many trackers built into it. With which you can add different exercises and control their execution. Main functions of the application:
- Increased motivation. The software provides a reward system that gives virtual rewards to the most active users. In addition, all parameters can be monitored using special graphs that clearly show current changes. The presence of such information encourages improvement of results and achievement of new goals.
- Workout. The Samsung Health app allows you to set different activity options. The following modes are available to users - cycling, running, cycling, walking and hiking. In each of the options, you can set ultimate goals. This could be time, distance, number of calories burned, etc. During the training process, a pedometer and a GPS sensor work, which successfully distinguishes walking from running and other types of exercise. At the same time, the program does not see many nuances, for example, it does not distinguish between the type of track, type of cycling or running, as well as other nuances.
- Heart rate monitor. Some new Samsung models have a sensor that can read a person's pulse. The device is built into the back cover and analyzes the received data. To obtain information, you need to place your finger on the sensor, which calculates your heart rate. Of course, you won’t be able to use this function while running. The information received is recorded in Samsung Health and compiled into statistics.
- Food. To keep your body in great shape and improve your health, you need not only exercise, but also proper nutrition. The Samsung Health app controls this moment, thanks to the built-in Food module. Here you can specify the type of dish you eat and its weight. You can enter data for four meals each day. Based on the weight of the smartphone owner, the software calculates the daily calorie intake, and then displays the data on the screen in graphical form. The entered information can be corrected.
- Weight. The user enters weight information into the Samsung Health database. Subsequently, the information is displayed on the graph.
- Dream. To monitor this parameter, it is necessary to wear a fitness tracker that monitors the user’s movement and transition to the sleep phase. In this case, the system controls the duration of stay in this state and the quality of rest. The obtained data is displayed in the form of graphs.
Listed above are the main features of Samsung Health that are available to users. All of them are aimed at helping to control and promote health.
Function: Workout with friends Samsung Health
Not everyone likes to train alone; Having someone to compete with and cheer on can help you stay focused on your fitness goals. While Samsung Health is primarily concerned with your progress, the Together tab in the app is dedicated to the community.
There are monthly community challenges that you can participate in simply by being active, as well as the ability to find and add friends. There are also challenges for you and your friends to work towards achieving greater and greater goals.
Features and Features
Now let’s look at what the Mi Health app can do. There are few options: the developers have added only those tools that are necessary for everyday use.
Activity (steps)
The application counts steps using the accelerometer built into the smartphone. The data is displayed in the “ Workouts ” . The information is divided into three sections : “ Steps ” , “ Exercise duration ” (duration of exercise/activity) and “ Calories ” (calories burned).
The information is saved in the application, so it can be viewed for any day. Each section provides a detailed graph that clearly shows at what time the user was active. There are charts for the current day, week and month.
Dream
Another important factor that radically affects human health. Fitness bracelets independently track the time of falling asleep and waking up + provide detailed information on the phases of sleep. The Mi Health program is devoid of such functions: you will have to independently indicate the time when you fell asleep and when you woke up. The application tries to automatically record these indicators, focusing on the immobility of the smartphone, but the calculations turn out to be incorrect.
So, to save sleep data, you need to go to the “ Sleep ” , click “Add manually” at the bottom, and use the circular sliders to indicate the rest time. In the center of the circle, the number of hours spent on sleep will be displayed, as well as a rating, for example, enough.
Weight
Body weight and height are indicated during the initial setup of Mi Health, but weight can be changed at any time by going to the “Weight” tab. The application will calculate your body mass index and give you a weight that is ideal for your height, for example, 60 kg at 170 cm.
We also optionally add the percentage of fat, muscle, water, protein and bone mass into the program. “smart” scales will help you find out such details about your body : the Xiaomi Health app and fitness bracelets do not independently determine the above indicators.
Menstruation
Women can use Mi Health to track their menstrual cycle. To do this, click on the tab of the same name in the main menu and indicate the duration of the cycle and the beginning of the last menstruation. At your discretion, you can turn on a reminder about the period when your period should begin.
If you don't want to track any health spectrum, you can hide these sections from the app. To do this, click on the ellipsis in the application in the left corner of the screen and mark unnecessary tabs with minuses.
Connect and synchronize data with other applications
There seem to be dozens of apps dedicated to your health and fitness. From specific apps for tracking blood pressure or weight to calorie counters, you probably have at least one other health app installed. Luckily, Samsung Health partners with dozens of different apps, allowing you to connect them and sync all the information from those apps with Samsung Health.
This way, you can track your meals using My Fitness Pal, for example, and then view the information displayed in the Samsung Health center.
How to disable Samsung Health?
To disable the application you need to:
- Open settings.
- Go to the "Applications" section.
- Find the desired program in the list and click on it.
- Select "Memory".
- Click on the “Clear data” item.
- Click "Back".
- Click on the “Disable” item.
It is impossible to completely remove the application. It is system-wide, and the Android OS does not allow users to get rid of such programs. You can try to remove the application by obtaining Root rights and specialized software, but this procedure is too complicated and dangerous for the phone.
Device Health Services: how to remove from your phone
To remove the application, you do not need to obtain Root rights or install additional bootloaders. All you need is a Windows computer, a USB cable for connection, and the smartphone itself.
After successfully pairing your device, follow these steps:
- Enable USB debugging.
- Install an optimizer for your smartphone (for Xiaomi it is called ADB Fastboot Tools).
- Wait for the scan to complete.
- Select the program you do not need from the list.
- Uninstall or disable the application.
Advice! Device Health Service is built into the system only on Google devices. On smartphones from other manufacturers, the utility can be uninstalled in the usual way.
Comparison of Mi Health and Mi Fit
The main difference between Mi Fit and Mi Health is that the first application uses a special device (fitness tracker or smart watch) to collect data, while the second application uses only a phone. Of course, the counting accuracy is higher in Mi Fit.
The smartphone may not be able to detect steps intermittently. A sports bracelet or watch has a more accurate sensor, because gadgets were developed specifically for such purposes. Below you can see a comparison of activity graphs on the two programs.
Mi Health does not analyze sleep, but only stores information entered by the user. Whereas Mi Fit, using a bracelet, independently determines the time of falling asleep and waking up, and also calculates the fast and slow phases.
The current version of Mi Fit does not have a tab with menstruation, and this is a minus compared to Xiaomi Health. But the new Mi Band 5 fitness bracelet has received the option of tracking the menstrual cycle, so the function will appear in Mi Fit.
Small conclusions: Mi Health is suitable for people who do not have a sports device. If you have a device specializing in health, it is better to install Mi Fit.
How to block an application from accessing the Internet
- Open the list of installed programs.
- Find Device Health Service.
- Click the gray arrow next to the utility name.
- Click the “Storage Cleanup” button, then “Reset Settings”.
- Exit Activity Launcher.
- Launch the Security program.
- Click the Special Permissions button.
- Select “Battery Saver” – “Done”.
- Open "Special access".
- Click on "Unlimited Mobile Internet".
- Slide the switch opposite the utility.
The last step is to disable data transfer. Open "Special Access" again. Click the “Data Transfer” – “Network Connections” button. Scroll down the page until “System Applications” appears. Find the name of the utility and click on it.
Several green switches will appear in front of you. Click on them so they turn red. Then click on the menu button (with three dots) and disable Device Health Service. After these steps, the utility will stop using system resources.
