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Apple is bringing sleep apnea detection to the Watch as it tries to push its wearable as a one stop shop for all things health. At the, highlighting the new feature. If you wear your watch to bed, you’ll get an alert pushed to your phone in the morning if it detects disturbances in your breathing. You will also be urged to visit your clinician, and can show them data on what the watch detected. All of this information will, as custom, be collated in the Health app for the iPhone.
Rather than using oxygen saturation, which would be the logical approach, Apple says it’s using motion tracking. This is likely tied to Apple’s longstandingthat has seen the company hurriedly offer workarounds for its blood oxygenation sensor. To avoid any more fights, your Apple Watch will instead look for “small movements at the wrist” that are indicative of “interruptions to normal respiratory patterns during sleep.
Apnea detection is also coming to both the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2, and Apple says it expects the FDA to give their blessing in the coming days. It says the feature will be available in more than 150 countries and regions later this month. The feature had been rumored for a while but there were hints suggesting Apple had struggled to make its workaround as effective as required.
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