If you’re wondering what actually happens when you decline the Samsung Health AI training consent prompt, here’s the short answer: your existing Samsung Health data won’t be deleted, and Samsung Cloud sync keeps working.

Samsung clarified that AI training data is collected and stored separately from your regular Samsung Health data and admitted the original in-app warning was worded misleadingly. Below is the full picture, including what’s still unclear.

What is the Samsung Health AI Training consent notice?

Earlier this week, Samsung Health began showing a popup titled “Consent to the Use of Health Data for AI Training and Modelling,” covering health and wellness data, medication data, health records, and cycle tracking data, via HowToGeek.

Disabling the toggle triggered a warning stating that doing so would stop cloud sync and delete data from Samsung’s servers language that sparked widespread backlash and confusion over whether users were being forced to trade their medical history for basic backup functionality.

What gets deleted if you decline?

According to Samsung’s updated clarification, data collected for AI training is stored apart from the health data that powers Samsung Health itself.

Withdraw consent, and only that AI-specific dataset stops being used and gets deleted your sleep logs, medication history, health records, and cycle tracking inside Samsung Health remain untouched.

No. SamMobile tested this directly after Samsung’s clarification: after withdrawing consent, Samsung Health continued syncing normally, and the Cloud sync toggle stayed enabled.

How to backup your Samsung Health data

It’s no longer urgent, but it’s still good practice, especially since Samsung says it’s “currently improving the notice text,” meaning the wording (and potentially the behavior) could shift again.

Go to Samsung Health > Settings > Download personal data and export a copy periodically regardless of your consent choice.

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