The recent update to Samsung Health has removed a major feature from the app: the continuous heart rate graph. If you were using the feature on your Galaxy Watch, there's a simple way to get it back.
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As spotted by Reddit user TomaszPNote20U (via PiunikaWeb) and many others, the Samsung Health app no longer displays a continuous heart rate graph after the latest update. This means that if you have the heart rate tracking feature enabled and set it to take a measurement at a specific interval, you won't be able to see data for each reading. Instead, the app now displays time bars for your average, minimum, and maximum heart rates. However, as /u/Tamsin-Amy pointed out, the continuous graph still appears when recording workouts.
It's unclear why Samsung decided to remove the chart. If you're not familiar with it, here's what it looked like:
This change comes as part of version 6.19.1.001 of the Samsung Health app. If you're running a previous version of the app, you'll probably be fine, and we recommend not installing the new update if you don't want to lose the continuous heart rate graph.
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A Samsung customer service executive confirmed that the removal of the chart was intended to happen, although they didn't provide any details on the reasoning behind it.
Fortunately, it's possible to get the continuous heart rate graph back. To do this, you'll need to uninstall the latest version of the Samsung Health app from your phone and sideload a previous version. You can grab the APK from APKMirror.
Information source: xda-developers.com
