Samsung Galaxy Watch customers can now view their coronary heart fee on Peloton tools

Peloton homeowners with a Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 (together with the Watch 5 Professional) or Galaxy Watch 4 can now monitor their coronary heart fee on their train tools. The Peloton Put on OS app replace that allows the function begins rolling out in the present day.

The pairing course of is much like that of the Apple Watch, which launched its Peloton app in 2019 and added direct coronary heart fee help in March 2022. When you’ve put in the Peloton app replace in your Galaxy Watch, select a exercise in your train tools, open the app in your wearable and observe the “Join” immediate. You need to see your coronary heart fee synced in real-time in your train machine. Peloton launched its Put on OS app final October, nevertheless it solely confirmed customers’ coronary heart charges on the watch, not the exercise tools.

The replace arrives as Samsung and Peloton (the latter particularly) might use the strategic partnership. After years of being one of many solely big-name Android smartwatches, Samsung’s flagship wearable has new competitors within the Pixel Watch, which launched final October. In the meantime, Peloton has struggled financially after a lockdown-era increase, resulting in 4 rounds of layoffs final 12 months that minimize over half its workforce.