Your Samsung devices could soon monitor brain health and check for cognitive decline
Samsung is preparing to unveil a potentially transformative brain health initiative that would use your phone and wearable to check for early signs of dementia
Samsung may debut a new brain health tracking initiative during CES 2026, which gets underway next week.
A new report from Chosun Biz spied by Android Authority says the new service could help users identify changes in their cognitive function and check for early signs of dementia. The tech could use data from the user’s phone and/or wearable device useage like your speech, walking gait and sleep patterns, the report says.
The (translated) report says: “Based on this, it is a method of early detection of cognitive decline or early dementia signals and guidance of preventive measures. Samsung Electronics has virtually completed its own development of the service, and it is known that it is conducting clinical verification in cooperation with medical professional institutions.”
Samsung could also offer personalised brain training exercises as a pre-emptive strike against such deterioration, according to today’s report.
Samsung also announced in September it had identified how typing speeds and messaging patterns could be digital biomarkers to track potential cognitive decline. While Samsung has been open in its research in this regard, the update suggests this could be a commercially viable initiative that Samsung is prepared to demonstrate and offer to the world.
Naturally any information pertaining to potential cognitive decline would be incredibly sensitive, so the report says Samsung is planning to deploy its Knox security platform to ensure the information is under lock and key. It’ll all be encrypted and stored on-device without being sent to the cloud or external networks, according to the report.
Samsung has gone big into health and wellness in recent years, with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Ring being the most obvious physical example recently. It has long been working on non-invasive blood glucose tracking and blood pressure monitoring, but brain health would be some next level stuff and we’re excited to see what the company has in store.
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