Google Pixel 7 / Pro Digital Health feature: can detect snoring and coughing to evaluate sleep quality

CTOnews.com October 7 news, at the hardware conference held in Brooklyn on Thursday, Google officially released the long-warmed Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro smart phones, equipped with an upgraded Sensor G2 chip.

Interestingly, alongside the emphasis on safety, voice and camera features, the company also briefly demonstrated a health feature on the slide-cough and snoring detection. It works in the background while you sleep, and in the Daily Bedtime Summary section, it shows how much time you snore and how many times you cough during sleep.

CTOnews.com learned that to turn on snoring and cough detection on the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, users need to grant the device microphone access. However, detection is done locally on the device, so the phone doesn't record any audio or send any data to Google's servers.

In the Digital Wellbeing app, snoring data reflects the total amount of time, in minutes and hours, a user snores during a set bedtime. Similarly, cough detection shows the total number of times a user coughed during a specified sleep period. Both types of data can be viewed on a Timeline to help users accurately indicate when they actually coughed and/or snored during sleep.