Samsung Health will arm you with noise-warning tools to save your hearing

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TL;DR

• Samsung Health is working on some new tools for your hearing health.
• A Noise card on the app’s home screen will let you quickly evaluate your daily exposure.
• Advanced Measurement will let users set specific volume level targets for warning notifications.

Lots of us use our smartphones and wearables to track our health, but what exactly does that encompass? The very concept of “health” is a lot more multi-faceted and nuanced than just “not sick” or “feeling good,” and we’ve developed dozens of metrics we can track in pursuit of all its forms, from calories burned during a workout, to time spent snoring at night. And while the problem with snoring is more about what it means for the person doing it than the person who might have to listen to it, today we’re very much thinking about loud sounds like that as we check out what Samsung Health is working on next.

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Samsung Health already makes it easy to keep on top of plenty of you health stats, like heart rate, or dissolved blood oxygen content. And as we look under the hood of the app’s version 6.31.2.003 update, we’ve spotted work on one new card it appears to be adding to its home screen: noise.




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