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Samsung Health
Updated Aug 23, 2026
Samsung Health is the tracking app built into Samsung phones and watches, and it quietly accumulates more than people expect. Steps, sleep, heart rate, blood pressure, blood glucose, body composition and exercise logs, from the phone and from every connected device. It exports as JSON or CSV from inside the app, which is one of the more straightforward processes on this site.
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What you'll get
Steps & activity — daily summaries and exercise logsSleep — duration, stages, and sleep scoreHeart rate — continuous readings, HRV, stress scoreBody composition — weight, BMI, body fat % (when paired with a Samsung smart scale)Nutrition — food logs and calorie intakeMedical — blood pressure, blood glucose (when tracked)Workouts — exercise type, duration, GPS, HRAccount metadata — device pairings, Samsung account info
Before you start
- Open the Samsung Health app on your phone
- Tap the menu icon (≡) and choose Settings
- Tap "Privacy settings" (or "Data management", depending on version) — paths have shifted between Samsung Health updates
How to download
- Select "Download personal data" (or "Export data")
- Pick JSON or CSV (CSV is friendlier for spreadsheets; JSON is friendlier for notebooks)
- Pick the date range (or "All Time" for a full archive)
- Select the data categories you want (Activity, Sleep, Heart, Body, Nutrition, Medical, etc.)
- Tap "Request download" — Samsung emails you the link within ~24 hours
- Click the link before it expires and save the ZIP
Pro tip
Samsung's export is the most generous on Android for blood-pressure and blood-glucose logs — clinically-relevant fields that most wearables ignore. If you track those, Samsung Health is the cleanest export.
Recommended backup tools
- ProtonDrive — End-to-end encrypted vault for the medical/ fields (blood pressure, blood glucose)
- Amazon SSD — Local encrypted backup of the full Samsung Health archive
- pCloud — Lifetime cloud option for the longitudinal blood-pressure and glucose trend CSVs
After the download
- Unzip — JSON export produces one file per category; CSV export produces one CSV per category
- Medical/ fields (blood pressure, blood glucose) are usually small and worth preserving even if other data is discarded — most wearables do not export these
- On Android, also enable Health Connect sync so any other health apps you use (Fitbit, Garmin, Oura, Google Fit) can read your Samsung Health data going forward