{
  "id": 12674416,
  "title": "Your friends haven’t disappeared from Samsung Health — Here’s what’s up with the asterisks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/your-friends-havent-disappeared-from-samsung-health-heres-whats-up",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-07T17:02:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Android Authority",
    "slug": "android-authority",
    "url": "https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-health-profile-visibility-setting-3720361/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Samsung Health has introduced profile visibility settings in version 7.1 to enhance user privacy. In this update, user names on the platform will be displayed as asterisks in challenges and other features, depending on their chosen privacy settings. The removal of photos and replacement of names with asterisks has left some users puzzled, leading to reports of a problem with their friend lists. However, this issue is not a bug but rather part of the newly implemented feature. The Samsung Health Service Operations team has provided an explanation for the change.",
  "summary": "Samsung Health explains why you're seeing all of those asterisks.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}