Samsung’s Wear OS 6-based One UI 8 Watch update started landing on the Galaxy Watch 7 in the first half of October, with the OS making its way out widely around the third week of the month.
Hailed as a super update that brought access to new tools like Bedtime Guidance and Vascular Load features, the watch update seems to have introduced some unwelcomed changes too, changes that are stressing users out.
First pointed out by user oHomemCansado on the r/GalaxyWatch subreddit, via Android Authority, their Galaxy Watch 7 has been pushing several “high stress level” alerts per day, even though the user claims that they’re pretty sure that they’re calm. “I don’t know what happened but before the ONE UI8 I didn’t get these warnings,” wrote the user.
Others chimed in with their experience, adding confluence. “I thought it was just me! I’ll be lounging and watching a funny show before bed and get these alerts every single night. They must have messed something up,” wrote one user, while a different one said “I had that problem too and I noticed it started to happen as soon as I install one ui 8, Still loving it.”
The issue doesn’t appear to be isolated to Galaxy wearables. Android Police writer Andy Boxall shared that his Pixel Watch 4 was acting similarly, pushing stress alerts when he clearly wasn’t. “Each alert came while I was relaxing on the couch, and I was neither stressed nor excited, ill, or drunk. Instead, I was being supremely lazy,” wrote Boxall. He added that on one occasion when he was actually stressed, the watch remained silent, making the feature mostly unreliable.
For reference, the feature monitors heart rate, skin temperature, and micro-sweat levels to detect stress.
Similarly, the folks over at Android Authority reported experiencing similar behavior on their Galaxy Watch 8, so the false readings clearly aren’t isolated to one wearable and could actually be connected to Wear OS 6.
Have you encountered similar frequent and false stress readings on your watch? Let us know in the comments below.
