AI-drunk companies love to trumpet their millions or billions of users. What they don’t tell you is that most are forced to use such features. Think of the AI overviews that Google Search forces on you, whether you asked for it or not.<\/p>\n
Samsung seems to have taken this tactic to the next level. According to How-To Geek<\/cite><\/a>, the Samsung Health app will delete users’ health data from the company’s cloud \u2014 making sync between devices impossible \u2014 unless they agree to hand it over for AI training and modeling.<\/p>\n The new consent toggle comes enabled by default and is buried in the app settings. It shows this message<\/a> when someone tries to turn it off:<\/p>\n Withdraw from this agreement?<\/p>\n You will not be able to sync health data with your Samsung account and your health data will be deleted unless retained pursuant to applicable law. If retention is required, we will erase it as soon as the required retention period ends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Samsung collects four types of data in Health:<\/p>\n\n
![this message<\/a> when someone tries to turn it off:<\/p>\nWithdraw from this agreement?<\/p>\nYou will not be able to sync health data with your Samsung account and your health data will be deleted unless retained pursuant to applicable law. If retention is required, we will erase it as soon as the required retention period ends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nSamsung collects four types of data in Health:<\/p>\n\nHealth and wellness: biometric, nutritional, body composition, and sleep data.<\/li>\nMedications: including prescriptions and dosages.<\/li>\nClinical exams and treatments.<\/li>\nMenstrual cycle.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nA message on Samsung’s website<\/a> warns that people may have access to this data to review it.<\/p>\n***<\/p>\nSamsung’s biggest rival, Apple, is also preparing to make Apple Intelligence \u2014 its suite of generative AI tools embedded in its operating systems \u2014 mandatory starting from version 27<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to How-To Geek, the Samsung Health app will delete users’ health data from the company’s cloud \u2014 making sync between devices impossible \u2014 unless they agree to hand it over for AI training and modeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=64564"},"categories":[1575],"tags":[1818,593,16,621],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64574,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572\/revisions\/64574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/samsung-health-treinar-ia-dados-saude.png\"){kind=link}