Samsung Health improves Challenge feature to let you compete against a group of nine friends
Personal fitness New Year’s resolutions likely involved everyone (including us!) Vowing to workout indoors or out, and Samsung wants to join in the fun – with a new challenge feature. for groups which allows groups of friends to compete against each other. .
The South Korean electronics giant announced yesterday that it is upgrading its health app with a group challenge feature in the “ Together ” section of the app, which will let you know which friend reaches in first various objectives. Previously, users could participate in individual challenges as well as a huge global challenge, participating in monthly step count contests against all Samsung Health users in the world.
While users can invite up to nine friends to join their group challenge, Samsung also said that even after you’ve created your first challenge, you can create multiple challenges to “compete with family, friends and family simultaneously. colleagues”.
Last year, challenge participants had an average daily step count of 5,488, while general users were less than 4,388 steps per day.
According to the company, the app currently has 201 million active users and 20 million participants using the Challenge feature in its current format. He also revealed that they collectively took 78 trillion steps and burned 3 billion calories, walking 59 billion kilometers. To put this in perspective, it represents 200 round trips from the earth to the sun!
Samsung plans to roll out the Group Challenge feature to all users via an app update on January 12, two days before the 2021 Galaxy Unpacked event. Users can download the app from the Google Play Store and the Galaxy App Store starting Tuesday.
