even though the new Galaxy watch 7 is easily the best smartwatch of 2024 there are some things that you actually need to know especially if you are brand new to the Galaxy watch world and haven't had any galaxy watchs in the past also I'll try to share with you some things that I found after using this watch for roughly a week by the way my plan really isn't to Rose this watch as I literally think this excellent product and it's highly improved over the past Galaxy watch 6 and 5 overall 98% of stuff and features on this watch are absolutely great I will simply try to share with you the remaining two percentage that could be improved actually first the charging experience really on this watch is actually worse than on the Galaxy watch 65 and even four uh due to the new sensors that they had to put in this watch so uh with these sensors that basically didn't had enough space to properly align that wireless charging coils at the back of the watch so so they had basically I think play them a bit further this creates some problems really first you can't really charge this watch anymore uh with reverse wireless charging on your compatible phone basically so if you had a phone that supported that you can't do that on this watch also it I think it doesn't properly works with most wireless chargers as well and also while actually trying to charge this watch during this week while I had it with this charger I also experienced some uh glitches and problems from time to time so really there is something going on with that and sometimes when I actually put it on the charger and it's plugged in it actually sometimes doesn't even literally starts to charge so you have to basically wiggle it around a bit so to get it to start charging also while it's charging and maybe you move it around a bit it will disconnect from time to time so this is what I found overall while this is an issue on this galaxy watch 7 but I'm actually glad that they put in these new sensors as the sensors really on the past Galaxy watches were really no good so I'm willing to trade a better sensors for a bit worse charging and now basically reverse charging as well so personally I'm okay with this tradeoff but maybe you need to know about this then also I do not think this rotating bezel is actually the best well I think the bezel itself is okay and it does its function but there is problem uh maybe they can fix it with some update but basically if I have this touch pel enabled the watch sometimes literally just clicks somewhere itself and it's actually kind of problematic to use things as some simply pop up as if you have this enabled so really uh personally I have disabled this touch puzzel as I was really using it anyway you can go to your general settings and click this and disable this I I wasn't really using the touch bzel on the previous Galaxy watch as well so it's no problem for me anyway but yeah if you have it enabled the touchcreen really acts up sometimes then also this watch does get quite a lot of new gestures and they actually quite amazing so you got the knock knock function Shake dismiss and double pinch however there is a problem these gestures actually do not work for some reason when the screen is off and you are basically not using this watch so if you simply want to launch an app uh you have to turn on the screen first and then do that maybe knock KN feature for example if I want to launch the flashlight uh I literally can't just knock knock and do that while the watch isn't actually active I have to first basically click the button or touch the screen or wake it up and then do the knock knock function I'm fairly sure I know why it's actually like that but I think they needed to actually give us an option uh to enable this so we can actually use these gesture uh when the screen actually isn't active as well also one more thing that lacks on these gestures for the double press function by the way this double press on the button isn't new function really and is available on the all watches but really they haven't included flashlight uh so you can't really launch Flashlight by simply double clicking this button uh on the past Galaxy watches there was a third party app which you could download and program to launch that app with the button but that app on the Galaxy watch 7 is bonky doesn't work properly I know 99% of the people do not care about the flashlight on this but that was something that I actually personally us it all the time and really they need to put on this function so you can actually launch the flashlight also by double clicking this if you already have a previous Galaxy watch then you already know that uh some of the functions actually won't work on non Samsung Android phones for example for blood pressure ACG uh and also for the new sleep apnea you actually need a Samsung phone for these functions to work also the AI functions again will only work on certain Samsung phones so if you don't have a Samsung phone you really missing quite a lot of features that they advertise and really I think this needs to be absolutely changed because really there aren really a hardware limitations as to why they don't allow the rest of people to use these functions then also about the blood pressure if you are purchasing this watch to measure your blood pressure uh I wouldn't purchase this watch for this purpose because I literally think it's a gimmick so again you actually need to calibrate this feature uh like every few days with an actual blood pressure like machine so really what's the point maybe I guess it's okay if you want to measure your blood pressure on the go somewhere so you don't have to take your machine with you but you need to know that you will need to calibrate this device every few days really but yeah I understand why it might be so and when I actually had the Samsung phone I actually tried this feature I do not think that it provided actually the best results and some of them were actually off so again I wouldn't purchase this watch for this function personally also when it comes to the blood oxygen measurement I would suggest you to actually measure this three or four times uh in a row basically and get the average instead of measuring only once and taking that value as I find this value flates quite a lot just from like each measurement basically so again I would take literally like three or four different readings and get the average really another limitation I found with this spo2 basically is I couldn't find a way how to actually enable it so it measures this value constantly while you're wearing this watch I know it consumes quite a lot of battery uh but I think actually when you use this watch in a sleep out it can do that however IR regularly it won't record that I think then another feature which I actually think is missing but maybe most people won't care about this when you actually go to check your step count uh so you can obviously see how many steps you have taken for the day and by the step counter Works excellent on this watch and it's literally one of the best watch for step count tracker it's actually better than Apple and Garmin which are often again more expensive watches this is way better actually however as you can see you can still see see your steps by the time of the day uh for today but you really can't see your step count history for the past days so for example when the day finishes and uh basically I want to check how many steps for example I did yesterday I really can't do that anywhere on the watch and I really have to open up my phone to check the step con basically and yeah I really wish there was somewhere to see your step count history for the past days really otherwise you have to basically pull up your phone and open the app to see the steps for the yesterday and that's pretty much the only thing that I really do on the phone H check the steps for my past days if I could do that on the watch itself that' be so much better then however there is some serious issue with the step count reporting on your phone app actually which Samsung doesn't really want to admit and they say it's working perfectly but it's not working perfectly a lot of people are complaining about this stuff basically uh your phone can actually also uh track your steps so if you obviously have Samsung Galaxy watch you already know your phone also tracks that Samsung Health app on your phone tracks the steps as well but the problem really is it actually double counts some of the steps sometimes really if I'm wearing this watch 24/7 it should track all the steps and there shouldn't be any double counting whatsoever how you can test this yourself simply place your phone in airplane mode so it it can't connect to this watch and data will get delayed basically then check how many steps you have actually taken and take your phone out of airplane mode if you have actually moved around with that uh phone it will also count those steps however once you take all to the airplane mode these steps on the watch will actually increase greatly so how come that's even possible since you are wearing this watch at all time so really it's double counting and when you actually check the Samsung H app it even literally says that it doesn't double count however I have caught pretty much all these Galaxy watch to do this thing and they're still not fixing this so really you are getting some extra steps added from your phone even if it says it doesn't do that it still does that then also about the exercise tracking basically the exercise tracking I think on this watch is spot on it's perfect but however you might know that this watch can actually provide your V2 Max result as well however I would take that with a huge grain of salt I do not think that value is accurate I think in the past Samsung even teamed up with some researchers to develop this feature more here I still don't think you can actually trust that feature and other watches are actually better uh when it comes to that vop 2 max result another thing which you actually need to know about some of these Health features on this watch is that you actually need to wear your watch during sleep for actually quite a lot of things to work uh properly for example this watch can also record your HRV however again you need to actually sleep with this watch at night to get it and obviously there are some other health tracking features that again only work if you actually wear this watch during sleep personally I do not really wear these watches at sleep to track the Sleep uh stuff basically because I find if you actually start to focus on this stuff more and start to think about it my sleep actually gets worse in the real reality so there's really nothing uh to track I guess if you want the best sleep uh sleep really is involuntary action so maybe you can track it sometimes just to see something and overall I wouldn't really suggest you to actually track your sleep in the long term because it will create you this uh sleep anxiety you will think before you actually go to the sleep just how good your sleep will be and also in the morning the first thing you'll actually want to look at is your sleep score and you will start overthink about it and really this can actually potentially even make your sleep worse so really again sleep is involuntary action and you really just have to go and sleep and stop overthinking about this stuff if you actually want the best sleep for example in the past when I actually tried to wear these watch during the Sleep the first thing in the morning really I did was looked at my watch and saw my energy score instead of maybe sleeping in a bit more and getting some more sleep so the first thing that was in my mind just to check my sleep score and how I sleep so overall actually by tracking my sleep I actually made my sleep even worse really so really maybe if you suspect that you might have the same problem I'm actually describing then really maybe forget about this feature and yeah forget about the stuff I think it can actually only ruin your sleep if you start to overthink about it anyway sorry for getting a bit off topic but uh basically this energy score and for example this uh like even AIG index it won't work if you actually don't use this watch to sleep the other functions such as your HRV and that energy score I can obviously understand why it wouldn't work but why this aigs wouldn't work that's a quite surprise for me so I think this should work even if you don't wear your watch to sleep and finally software and updates if you are maybe a past Galaxy watch user I really don't even think I need to tell you about this stuff because you know what happens with these watches basically if they get any bugs or glitches it takes pretty much forever to fix anything if at all basically and you're basically stuck with problem or maybe even like literally a half working watch for example at the start of the year uh I literally couldn't use my Galaxy watch the previous one for literally 2 months because as for all Google pixel phones they simply wasn't working as the app was half bricked so literally for tens of thousands of pixel users really this watch was completely bricked for literally two months and they took their sweet time to actually bring it back and make it work also another epic failure with the Galaxy watch 7 itself when they actually started selling this watch they didn't even provide the software for non Samsung phones basically so basically if you purchased this watch at the lunch well you basically got a brick that couldn't be used because there was no software for it available again completely ridiculous I started selling the watch without even really having a software for it and this really continues with every like Samsung watch and I would say even with every Samsung product the software is unreliable and again it doesn't get fixed when it's actually needed and if anything goes wrong and then simply ignore it so overall can I still suggest this watch well of course I can suggest this watch because it's insanely good watch actually and it's clear upgrade over the past versions and really it's extremely well built watch and really there's again most of these problems I'm really complaining about are really neat picking anyway if you are looking for a crazy good watch as that can do pretty much everything this is probably my number one suggestion really also the build quality on this watch really is insane and when you look at the price of this watch and the good deals that you can usually get on this no other watch in that price range actually gets the build quality that this watch has and pretty much like I don't know any other watch in this price range that gets saire glass display that will basically last you forever all right good luck