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Hi all, this might come across as a stupid question, but how do you dismiss one of those persistent step counter notifications generated by Samsung Health while still having the app count your steps?

It seems that Samsung Health app takes step count from either both phone and watch or phone only. Same goes for hearth rate and stress level measurement - the app asks to place finger on the sensor on back of the phone rather than use sensors from watch which I have on my wrist.

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Doctors often recommend walking as an easy way for inactive people to ease into better health. Taking 4,000 or fewer steps a day is considered a low level of physical activity. A goal of 10,000 steps a day is commonly cited, but recent studies have shown that health benefits accrue even if fewer than 10,000 steps are taken daily.

In their analysis, the researchers compared the risk of death over the follow-up period among people who took fewer than 4,000, up to 8,000, or 12,000 or more steps a day. They also tested whether step intensity, measured by cadence, was associated with better health.

Compared with people who took 4,000 steps a day, those who took 8,000 steps a day at the start of the study had a 50% lower risk of dying from any cause during follow-up. People who took 12,000 steps a day had a 65% lower risk of dying than those who took only 4,000.

Step intensity did not seem to impact the risk of mortality once the total number of steps per day was considered. Only an increased number of steps per day was associated with a reduced risk of death.

The findings are consistent with current recommendations that adults should move more and sit less throughout the day. But because this study was observational, it could not prove that increased physical activity caused a reduced risk of death. Higher step counts also may reflect people who were in better health to begin with, which could potentially influence the results.

Modern pedometers work in a very similar way but are partly electronic. Open one up and you'll find a metal pendulum (a hammer with a weight on one end) wired into an electronic counting circuit by a thin spring. Normally the circuit is open and no electric current flows through it. As you take a step, the hammer swings across and touches a metal contact in the center, completing the circuit and allowing current to flow. The flow of current energizes the circuit and adds one to your step count. As you complete the step, the hammer swings back again (helped by the spring) and the circuit is broken, effectively resetting the pedometer ready for the next step. The pedometer shows a count of your steps on an LCD display; most will convert the step count to an approximate distance in miles or kilometers (or the number of calories you've burned off) at the push of a button. Note that in some pedometers, the hammer-pendulum circuit works the opposite way: it's normally closed and each step makes it open temporarily.

More sophisticated pedometers (including some of the really good ones made by Omron) work entirely electronically and, since they have no moving parts, tend to be longer-lasting, more reliable, and considerably more accurate. They dispense with the swinging pendulum-hammer and measure your steps with two or three accelerometers instead. These are microchips arranged at right angles that detect minute changes in force as you move your legs. Since accelerometers are often built into gadgets like cellphones, it's increasingly common to find these sorts of things offering to count your steps for you too (there are plenty of pedometer apps for the iPhone, for example). GPS satellite navigation devices can also figure out how far you've walked or run, but they do it by calculating from satellite signals rather than counting steps

Hi all, in the past (on older Galaxy S phones) I think I had to read conflicting thoughts on whether the step counter drains the battery, or whether it actually drains more battery if we disable it. My takeaway at the tine was that if anything, the battery drain was negligible, and thus not even worth disabling. But I also personally don't have too much use for the step counter and don't think I'd miss it that much, so I wanted to revisit this question. (It's nice but by no means essential for me.)

Has anyone tested this on the S9 and have info on whether Samsung Health does or doesn't drain the battery? Related, does the step counter widget (which I currently have on my home screen) have any additional impact?

I've been using Samsung Health as my main fitness/step tracker with my W5P, and Strava for most GPS activities. The only issue is that although I use Health Connect to sync activities to Fit, Fit doesn't sync steps onwards to other apps and only transfers the distance from recognised walks, even though it does show steps from SH.

Tap the icon in the top right corner (it looks like four vertical lines) to select 7 days, 31 days, or 12 months to view the average number of daily steps over a certain period of time.

Open the Samsung Health app on your phone and tap Steps. Tap More options (the three vertical dots), and then tap About steps. From here, you can read the available information.

The steps recorded by your watch are an estimate and may vary from the actual step count. This is because certain factors can affect how steps are recorded. For example, on some watches, steps are only counted when there is hand movement. So, if you push a lawnmower or do an exercise with no hand movement, steps may not be recorded. Other factors, such as environmental conditions or skin conditions, may also affect how well steps are recorded.

Using the connected phone, open Samsung Health. Tap the Steps tracker, tap More options (the three vertical dots), and then tap Select step data to show. Choose All steps as your step count source. Now both your watch, phone, and any other connected devices will be synced together, and their total will appear in Samsung Health.

Several attempts have been made to demonstrate the accuracy of the iPhone pedometer function in laboratory test conditions. However, no studies have attempted to evaluate evidence of convergent validity of the iPhone step counts as a surveillance tool in the field. This study takes a pragmatic approach to evaluating Health application derived iPhone step counts by measuring accuracy of a standardized criterion iPhone SE and a heterogeneous sample of participant owned iPhones (6 or newer) in a laboratory condition, as well as comparing personal iPhones to accelerometer derived steps in a free-living test. During lab tests, criterion and personal iPhones differed from manually counted steps by a mean bias of less than 5% when walking at 5km/h, 7.5km/h and 10km/h on a treadmill, which is generally considered acceptable for pedometers. In the free-living condition steps differed by a mean bias of 21.5% or 1340 steps/day when averaged across observation days. Researchers should be cautioned in considering the use of iPhone models as a research grade pedometer for physical activity surveillance or evaluation, likely due to the iPhone not being continually carried by participants; if compliance can be maximized then the iPhone might be suitable.

Hello! My Verizon based Galaxy S21 with Android 13 with latest patch G991USQU5DWA8 update as of 29 January 2023 and Samsung Health app version 6.23.0.063 no longer displays my step count on the lock & home screens of the phone. Instead of display the step count all it displays is "Samsung Health started."

The step count was visible up until a few days ago but I can not determine what has changed. Can anyone help me to get the step count to display on the phone lock & home screens? I have tried the whole "Clear Cache / Clear Data" shuffle as well as uninstalling & reinstalling the app and I still am only able to see the "Samsung Health Started." notification text.

The other comments about re-enabling notifications for steps is accurate but there is a bit more to get the steps to show on the lock screen again. Within the specific "steps" notification category, I changed the type from "Silent" to "Alert", applied a silent sound (of course) and made sure the "Lockscreen" was set to "Show content". Now the steps show on the lock screen.

Since October 9th, I have been having an issue with the health app on my iPhone. The issue is that on most (but not all) days, my health app will randomly record the same number of steps for a long period of time.

For example, my phone recorded 218 steps hourly from 2 PM on the 9th to 9 PM on the 10th; the next day, it recorded 421 steps hourly from 1 PM to 12 noon the next day. This was followed by a period where the step tracker was behaving normally. It returned October 15th recording 206 steps hourly from 12 noon to 6 AM the next morning.

I have inserted an screenshot of my health app from overnight. The issue started at 3 PM and continued at 12 noon. I was certainly using the phone between 3 PM and 1 AM and then from 9 AM through 12 noon.

So for the longest time I have had a Samsung Gear S2 watch. Recently, and by "recently" this was last February, I bought the 42 mm Galaxy Watch and got it all setup and switched to the new watch and completely removed the Gear S2. Since then my step counter has had an issue. I can select "All Steps" and it shows the steps from my phone and Galaxy Watch. Just the Mobile device which shows my steps according to the phone itself and the option for my old watch Gear S2. If I select the 3rd option it shows no steps. I've tried to uninstall and reinstall shealth but the S2 still shows as recent thought it doesn't exist at all in the phone. Any idea how to get this corrected? e24fc04721