Connect a Heart Rate Strap to Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra

The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra has a built-in optical heart-rate sensor, but Samsung Health does not offer a way to use a Bluetooth chest strap as the heart-rate source for a workout.

With Watchletic for Wear OS, you can connect a supported Bluetooth heart-rate monitor directly to your Galaxy Watch and use its readings during your workout. We use a Polar H10 in the screenshots below, but it is only one example of a supported monitor.

How to connect your heart-rate strap

1. Put on and activate your heart-rate strap.
2. Open Watchletic on your Galaxy Watch and tap the Bluetooth icon.

3. Choose the type of workout you want to use the strap with, such as Running.

4. Tap your heart-rate monitor when it appears.

5. Return to the home screen and start your workout. On the pre-workout screen, tap Continue. Your heart-rate monitor appears as a circular sensor button in the precision-start view.

That is it. Press the center start button and Watchletic will use the chest strap for heart-rate data. The same steps work on other Wear OS Galaxy Watches, including the Galaxy Watch 8, Watch 7, Watch 6, Watch 5, and Watch 4 series.

Download Watchletic from Google Play.

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