Samsung Health asks for consent to train AI on your health data
Po / Money and Products desk
Samsung Health now asks users to let their health data be used for AI training, and its first notice made saying no sound far costlier than Samsung says it is.
The toggle
A new consent screen called “Consent to the Use of Health Data for AI Training and Modelling” is appearing for Samsung Health users, as Android Authority reported on July 13, 2026. 9to5Google followed on July 15.
The in-app notice initially read as a sharp warning: say no, and you could not sync health data to your Samsung account, and data already stored there would be deleted unless Samsung was legally required to keep it.
Samsung has since clarified that. It told 9to5Google and TechRepublic that when consent is withdrawn, only data collected separately for AI development is deleted. Existing health records are retained, and syncing is not affected. TechRepublic reported that Samsung is revising the notice to make its meaning clearer.
What data is on the table
The scope of the consent covers most of what a health app knows about you: activity and step counts, sleep, body measurements, medications and prescriptions, medical records including diagnoses and test results, and menstrual cycle data.
Samsung also says training may involve human review, which means the consent is not only about algorithms processing your records. Some of this data may be looked at by people as part of the training pipeline.
Withdrawing consent
Technically, you can withdraw consent later, under Settings, Privacy. Per Samsung, withdrawing removes only the data collected for AI training. Your existing health history stays in the app, and sync keeps working.
That makes the toggle a real choice rather than an ultimatum. The scope of the consent is still broad, from prescriptions to cycle tracking, and the confusion over the original notice shows how much the wording of a consent screen matters.
For users, the decision arrives with the next app update. For the industry, it is a test balloon worth watching: health platforms asking to train AI on medical records will be judged on how clearly they explain what saying no actually costs.
Before you update the app, decide which side of the toggle you are on.
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