Samsung issued an in-app notice saying Samsung Health users who withdraw AI-training consent will delete only separately collected AI-development data, not core health records stored for the service.
The clarification followed user confusion over an early-July pop-up that implied turning off the option would erase server-stored health data and disable Samsung Cloud syncing.
Samsung said the AI-training dataset is separate from data used to provide Samsung Health services and is revising the notice text to make that distinction clearer.
Tests after the notice showed Samsung Health kept syncing normally after consent was withdrawn, with the Samsung Cloud sync toggle still enabled.
The update reverses the impression from earlier reports that users had to accept AI training to keep backups and cross-device syncing.