Galaxy Watch Active, Gets Updates

If the launch of the new Galaxy Watch3, has you worried about the eventual planned obsolesce of your watch, fret not. Samsung has just announced that the Watch Active2 will receive new updates and features soon.

What to expect from the updates:

Better Fitness Support
Those who enjoy an active life, will be happy to know that the improved fitness app will monitor your gate analysis and provide a variety of detailed metrics such as asymmetry, regularity, stiffness, vertical oscillation, ground contact time, to help you improve performance and reduce injury.

In addition to this, the app will be able to measure VO2 max, which is an indicator of the maximum amount of oxygen a person can utilize during intense exercise. This may prove beneficial to athletes who want to get the most out of their fitness workouts, which also includes heart rate data.

Fall Detection
The feature has proven to be very helpful in certain cases. the moment the watch detects that a wearer has fallen down, an option will pop-up to send an SOS notification to four pre-defined contacts. This can help shave vital minutes off, and allow emergency services to respond as quickly as possible.

Better Message Functions
View the emoticons and photos directly from your wrist. You even can reply to messages through the use of Smart Reply. It will also provide word suggestions when typing a text. Your watch can also show your entire chat history, instead of just a single message.

Therefore you can reply directly to a message, instead of having to pick up your phone to type respond. Besides just plain text, you can also add a little funk to your messages with AR Emoji Stickers and Bitmoji Stickers.

Use Your Watch As A Remote
Now, you can access your favorite music playlists from your phone with the Galaxy Watch2. The watch’s music controls will work seamlessly with your phone and wireless earbuds. It offers a better level of convenience to play, pause and skip past tracks.

Besides this, the Galaxy Watch Active2 now supports the scroll capture feature. If you take a screenshot on your smartwatch, it will be automatically sent as an image to your smartphone. this way, you can capture message threads and workout information quickly for future reference.

Starting today, the new update will be rolling out to Galaxy Watch2 smartwatches around the world. It will bring new health, communication, and connectivity features to extend the functionality of your current smartwatch for the foreseeable future.