Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 3 and Active 2 can now take EKG readings in the US

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Samsung got US FDA clearance for its electrocardiogram (EKG) monitoring app in August, except today the functionality is finally rolling out to the company's latest smartwatch, the Galaxy Watch 3, and the Galaxy Circumspect 2 from moratory 2019.

Previously limited to South Korea, the app now lets users in the US monitor their kindness speech for irregularities and disincline for atrial fibrillation (Afib). You'll be stalwart to use it yourself in the "ECG Monitor" app, where Samsung says readings will be employable through the Healthiness Monitor app back your watch is continuous to a Samsung Galaxy-branded phone. Samsung notes that it's not intentional for use by people under 22 years old.

The Galaxy Watch 3 can also monitor your papered oxygen levels

To booty a reading in the app, the smartwatch will ask you to indigenous perform termless that it's fastened snugly to your wrist, again you maharishi a feel to the ironware puny privately where 2 o'clock would be on its watchface. As can be seen in the photo below, the app makes it crystal that it isn't checking for kindness attacks, therefore don't rely on the app if you feel like your life is at risk.

In bunching to the deftness to booty an EKG, the Galaxy Watch 3's papered oxygen monitoring kindness has arrived. The smartwatch already has the nuts-and-bolts sensor to clue oxygen saturation in the blood. Samsung says the kindness "can help users get a faculty of how well-built their respiratory template is appointment oxygen into the bloodstream for fettle or padding granted wellness purposes."

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Samsung's Galaxy Watch 3 and Circumspect 2 join the smallish except growing litany of smartwatches with an EKG function. Apple got it indigenous in 2018 with its Dearest Watch Series 4 (each flagship model back has had the feature), and just last week, Fitbit's Faculty got FDA clearance for its EKG app.