Samsung’s Galaxy Watch lineup offers a host of health and fitness tracking features. In addition to monitoring basics like step count, heart rate, and blood oxygen levels, the watches can also track your sleep. And sleep tracking isn’t just about how long you slept.
You can also use the Samsung Health app to monitor different sleep stages and even detect snoring. However, the snoring detection feature isn’t always reliable, with many users reporting inaccurate recordings or instances where it doesn’t work at all. Fortunately, Samsung appears to have addressed this with the latest Samsung Health update.
Samsung has reportedly improved the snoring detection algorithm in version 6.31 of the app (via SamMobile), and it should now be able to offer more accurate snoring detection. While the release notes don’t specify how exactly how the new algorithm improves performance, they do highlight one notable limitation.
According to a screenshot shared by tipster @theonecid on X, after updating to the latest Samsung Health release, users will no longer be able to plaback previous snoring recordings. The update resets the data, so only the snoring history recorded by the previous version will remain visible in the app. Snoring recorded after the update, however, will play normally.
Update Samsung Health from the Galaxy Store
Users can install the update by heading to the Galaxy Store on their devices, tapping the hamburger menu icon in the top-left corner, selecting Updates, and then tapping on the update button next to Samsung Health. Snoring detection is available on Galaxy Watch 8 and older models going back to the Galaxy Watch 4, and requires the paired Galaxy phone to be connected to a charger to function.
If you’ve faced issues with snoring detection on your Galaxy Watch, you can try installing the update to see if the updated algorithm improves accuracy.