Samsung Health warns that it may remove your data if you choose to opt out of AI training.

      Samsung Health will erase your synchronized data if you decline to allow it to use your health records for AI training.

      If you utilize Samsung Health to monitor your sleep, exercise, or medications, you might have noticed a new consent option appear in the app this week. Samsung is now requesting users to permit the use of their personal health information for AI training and model development. The stipulation is clear: if you refuse, Samsung will cease syncing your health data and will erase all information stored in your account (via Cybernews).

      Samsung is compelling users to share their data for AI training by compromising essential features of its Health app, which tracks activity, health records, medication, and menstrual cycle information. If you opt out, the app cautions that it will stop syncing with your Samsung account and will delete your data.

      The sensitive health data associated with Samsung's new AI consent option includes more than just basic step counts. Samsung seeks access to body measurements, nutrition records, sleep information, medication details (including prescriptions and dosages), complete health records (encompassing diagnoses and test results), and menstrual cycle tracking data.

      If you connect the app with a Galaxy Watch or Galaxy Ring, the data becomes even more personal, incorporating biological age indicators, body fat percentage, heart rate variability, skin temperature, and blood oxygen levels. Users who refuse or later withdraw their consent are alerted that syncing will be turned off and all synced health data will be permanently deleted.

      Users are expressing dissatisfaction with Samsung's approach to AI data usage.

      The response was swift. Samsung Health boasts over 1 billion downloads on the Play Store and approximately 65 million monthly active users globally, and this policy also affects iPhone users since the app is available on iOS.

      Here we go. Now tech companies are threatening to make apps that you depend on for daily use a means for their AI training, and if you don’t agree, they simply won’t function. Come on @Samsung; tech companies are just as ruthless as big pharma— TurnedAgainst aka “TA” (@turnedagainst) July 12, 2026.

      Critics swiftly highlighted that labeling this as a consent option while threatening data deletion isn’t genuine consent. Samsung hasn’t clarified whether the data is anonymized prior to AI training, who conducts the human reviews, or how frequently these reviews occur. Samsung asserts that users can retract their consent at any time via the app settings. However, with health data at stake, that choice feels far less voluntary than it appears.

      Manisha Priyadarshini is a technology and entertainment writer with more than nine years of editorial experience.

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