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Dan Bracaglia

Your Samsung Galaxy Watch now supports blood pressure tracking — but it’s not the same as Apple’s Hypertension Alerts

Back of the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra showing the health sensor array.

Samsung first announced plans to bring blood pressure monitoring to the brand’s lineup of Galaxy smartwatches all the way back in 2019. Now, the feature is available for U.S. watch users with the Galaxy Watch 4 or newer.

This is a major milestone for Samsung, which is in an epic arms race with the competition, including not just Apple and Google but Oura, Ultrahuman, and Whoop, too, to see which brand can add real-time blood pressure monitoring to a wearable device first.

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