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  • Updated: February 13, 2023

Samsung's Galaxy Watch5 Now Features Temperature-Based Period Tracking

Samsung's Galaxy Watch5 Now Features Temperature-Based Perio

Samsung's Galaxy Watch5 will now provide improved period tracking functionality with the help of a new collaboration with Natural Cycles that makes better forecasts using the temperature sensors on the wristwatch. 

The debut comes after the introduction of a new temperature sensor for the Apple Watch Series 8 in the fall of 2022, which permits users to check retrospective ovulation estimations while wearing the watch overnight and also enhance their period forecasts.

Owners of smartwatches in 32 nations around the world, including North America, Europe, and Asia, will be able to access the sophisticated period-tracking functions, according to Samsung.

It states that Natural Cycles has created an algorithm that makes forecasts about fertility using body temperature and other reproductive indicators.

This will be used in conjunction with the new infrared sensor on the Watch5 to monitor overnight variations in skin temperature.

According to Samsung, the information is encrypted and kept on the smartphone, where it powers the Cycle Tracking function of the Health app.

It wasn't until 2020 that Samsung finally added a period tracking option to its Health app, years after Apple, Fitbit, Garmin, and other third-party applications had done the same.

The manual period tracking method, however, it is limited in its ability to predict because it relies on prior data. Its precision may be increased by enabling temperature changes to be monitored.

“The Natural Cycles app has helped millions of women around the world take control of their fertility and this partnership will allow Samsung to leverage our fertility technology to offer temperature-based cycle tracking through a smartwatch for the first time,” said Dr Raoul Scherwitzl, co-founder and co-CEO of Natural Cycles, in a statement.

Though it may detect temperature variations that could be your first warning to other health problems, such polycystic ovarian syndrome or fibroids, Apple warns its own consumers that the temperature-tracking tools it offered should not be used as birth control or to diagnose medical conditions.

Additionally, Apple cautions that other elements, such as the sleep environment, might affect nightly temperature tracking, and that body temperature normally changes as you sleep. Instead, according to Apple, temperature monitoring is only utilised to offer better period predictions and retroactive ovulation estimates.

Today's news demonstrates Samsung's efforts to compete in a market that has been dominated by Apple.

But instead of developing an algorithm in-house, it opted to bring in a partner because it is hurrying to compete on this front.

It's also not the first time Samsung has benefited from a cooperation to expand the capabilities of its Health app.

The business previously disclosed a partnership with Calm to, for example, add content to the app's Mindfulness area.

Within the second quarter, Samsung said, the Galaxy Watch5 and Watch5 Pro's Samsung Health app will support the new skin temperature-based cycle tracking features. 32 markets, including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, will support this feature.

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