When is Australia getting ECG Function on Galaxy watch?

[Yong_kim]

Understand Galaxy watch 4 is coming soon.

But there is no news of ECG for watches.

Anyone has information? 

#ecg

[Dolgogi]

Never 😂

It needs approval from the Australian medical association I believe, which is why we still don't have it.

There are methods to get it, but that requires some messing around with patched files and/or changing the watches CSC, and so I never bothered.

[RAW-file]

Aw you beat me to it!

[JohnnyP]

Is there any update on this yet?
As itt just feels like it was a advertising gimmick to get people to buy their watches.

[SamsungJon]

Hi @JohnnyP and @Yong_kim, in Australia, the Galaxy Watch ECG feature is currently under review with the relevant health authorities as part of standard process. Further updates will be provided as they become available.

When the update becomes available, we will update Community about it.

If you have any further questions or queries, please don't hesitate to contact us. 

[Yong_kim]

Thanks!

[JohnnyP]

Are we to assume that IF this article is ture, and the fact that we still don't ecg enable. That this is only for the watch that is been released later this year?
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/eftm.com/2021/08/exclusive-samsung-gets-tga-certification-for-galaxy...

[SamsungJon]

Hi @JohnnyP, the Watch 4 will have ECG functionality in Australia. We can confirm that the Watch3 and Watch Active 2 will have ECG and Blood Pressure tracking functionality at a later date.

For more information, please see our official article here: https://news.samsung.com/au/samsung-announces-blood-pressure-tracking-and-tga-approved-electrocardio...

[Yong_kim]

Thanks Tina,
Great news! I am using apple watch, I should buy watch4. 😀

[Kombatsd]

Hi Tina. Can you please advice when we can expect an update for the Watch 4? I still don’t have access to these 2 functions.
Thank you.