How difficult is it to set up the new Samsung Galaxy smart ring?

[Gillystar]

I want ot get the new ring but hate setting up new devices and connecting them to my phone and spending hours setting it all up. How difficult is this ring's new set up? 

[George Low]

Setting up the Galaxy Ring is just like pairing any other Samsung wearable to your phone. As long as you already have the Wear app installed, you just open the Galaxy Ring box and wait for a pop-up to appear on the phone. I already had my health details pre-filled in Samsung Health from reviewing devices like the Galaxy Watch 6, but if you're new to the world of Samsung wearables, you'll want to enter in things like your birthdate, height and weight.

 

It's going to take a few days of wearing the Ring to get any sort of real, actionable insights and tap into the promised Galaxy AI features, like wellness tips. But the energy score after my first night of sleep was 78 out of 100, not too bad considering I'd been running around New York City in sweltering heat and only managed six hours of sleep.

 

Just like the Oura Ring, the Galaxy Ring has separate scores for sleep and energy. (Oura calls the latter the Readiness score). But even though my energy score was 78, my sleep score was a whopping 92. I've written before about the discrepancies between how you feel compared to a device's sleep score and was pretty surprised that my rating was so high given the Ring also identified I moved around a lot during the night.