At a hardware event in Brooklyn on Thursday, Google officially unveiled its long-awaited Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro smartphones. Interestingly, while emphasizing safety, voice and camera features, the company also briefly showcased a health feature on the slide — cough and snoring detection. Specifically, on the daily bedtime summary screen, the Pixel will be able to show how long a user snores and how many times they cough during sleep.
With user permission, the digital health app can help you understand the quality of your sleep by analyzing the audio of coughing and snoring at night, and the data can be processed locally on Pixel 7,” Google executives said.
In late September, app researcher Mishaal Rahman also showed the settings screen for this feature in a tweet ahead of the Pixel 7’s official launch.
The screen shows that the cough and snore detection feature only requires the Pixel 7’s microphone, and there’s no need to record or share data with anyone.
If you’re interested, you can enable the feature by going to the “Bedtime” section of the Clock App, as described on the Google support page.
Alternatively, you can go to the “Settings → Digital Health & Parental Controls → Show coughing and snoring activity” page to see the data.
It is not yet known whether this feature will be available “out of the box” or if it will have to wait for an update to be released.
