Samsung Health is a go-to app to keep tabs on your health using a Galaxy device, smartwatch, or smart rings. The company offers a range of features, continually introducing new ones at regular intervals. The app recently gained a new virtual doctor appointment feature in partnership with HealthTap. Now, with this latest Samsung Health feature, the company wants to protect your hearing, as prolonged exposure to loud noises can cause hearing loss.
Samsung Health may get a new ‘Noise’ card to protect your hearing
The Samsung Health app for Android version 6.31.2.003 reportedly brings a new card called Noise, possibly for Galaxy smartwatches. Apple offers a similar built-in Noise app for its wearables. This Samsung Health feature, currently hidden, will help users monitor their noise exposure. It can use the phone’s microphone to check noise levels around you and provide you with the readings.
The screenshots show that the Noise option will surface a “Today’s average” card with a decibel meter. The noise levels are denoted in four colors — blue, green, yellow, and orange based on severity. The three-dot menu at the top has “Noise alert history” and “Advanced Measurement” options.
Advanced Measurement and Noise alert history
The Noise alert history offers a record of alerts received, including a specific count. The Advanced Measurement option will use your smartwatch’s microphone to measure noise levels around you throughout the day. If the noise level goes beyond a certain limit, it will notify you about the same. There’s also an option to set noise levels for warning notification. You can choose from 80 dB to 100 dB.
The feature can also keep tabs on the sound produced by the phone, and if it goes beyond a certain limit, it will notify you about it. Then there’s the “Noise level” graph that shows the alerts received over a period of time. It has the option to display alerts received over a week, a month, and a year.
As said, these features are not accessible at the moment, with no clarity on when Samsung will roll them out to the public. But since they appear to be nearly ready, we expect it shouldn’t be too long.
