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Samsung Health challenges work on Galaxy Watches, kind of

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Last updated: November 5th, 2024 at 16:46 UTC+01:00

Over half a million Samsung Health users take on “Together” challenges every month. Many Samsung fans have participated in these global challenges for years, even if they never owned a wearable fitness device. They count their monthly steps using their phones and compete with friends and countless other people they never met.

Nowadays, smartwatches are gaining popularity and offer more accurate step tracking, which can be a boon for fans of Together monthly challenges. And if you bought a Galaxy Watch and are wondering, then the answer is yes, you can access Together challenges from your wrist.

Well, kind of. Unfortunately, there are some limitations. The most annoying is that you can't check global leaderboards for Together challenges from your wrist.

Likewise, you can't check your step count for the current Together month. So, you might be wondering, what can you do? Again, not a lot, but thankfully you can check out your friends' leaderboards directly from your Galaxy Watch.

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If you own a Galaxy Watch, all you need to do to check Together is to open Samsung Health on the smartwatch, scroll down, and tap “View challenges.”

You will be able to see your friends' leaderboards as long as you've already set up Together for the month. If you haven't, you can tap “Set on phone” and sign up for this month's challenges on your phone. Now you're all set to view Together challenges on your wrist. Sort of. Again, there are limitations.

Fear not, though. Even if you can't access as many details about Together straight from your Galaxy Watch, all the steps you record with the smartwatch will be added to your tally.

Editor's Note: We're hoping Samsung will expand this feature to include more details about Together challenges directly on the smartwatch. What users can do now is a start, but the system is quite limited.

It would be great if users could at least check global leaderboards and their step counts for the current month, aside from friend's leaderboards. We will keep you posted if anything changes with future firmware updates.

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