Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology firm specializing in Software, online services, and consumer electronics. Apple is the world’s most valuable brand following company, with a net worth of $2.850 trillion in 2022. Apple has become the world’s first company that has touched the $3 trillion mark.
Samsung’s Galaxy Watch4 series already features a blood pressure monitor, but Apple is slow to add something similar to its wearable devices. According to a Bloomberg report, the Apple Company plans to add body temperature monitoring to the Apple Watch and other health features this year. In addition, the company may have one Apple Watch with a blood pressure monitoring feature available on the market by 2024. It’s because it has “hit some snags”, meaning that “the technology is not expected to be ready until at least 2024”, according to the sources with knowledge of this matter.
Teams are already working on an update to its Apple Watch sensor to detect high blood pressure. However, accuracy was a problem when the technology was tested on employees. This feature will reportedly be able to see hypertension and provide diastolic or systolic readings. This sounds less exciting than Samsung’s solution, but that requires monthly calibration with an old monitor, whereas Apple Company wants its solution to be completely independent.
Apple claims to have worked on the feature for at most four years. However, it is unlikely that the feature will be available until 2024. It may slip to 2025.
Apple has also established teams to add noninvasive blood sugar monitoring to its wearables. However, the feature is believed to be many years away and is not expected to be released next year. Meanwhile, Apple wants to improve the third-party glucose meters support on the iPhone’s Health App and Apple Watch to aid diabetic users.
Apple will soon bring various features to the iPhone’s Health App, including medication management, improved sleep tracking, and women’s health. The medical management section will allow you to scan pill bottles into the Health app, and it reminds you to take your medications. The initial version may not have all of these functions. However, only a subset of these functions may be available in the first edition.
Moreover, Apple plans to add a body-temperature sensor to its Apple Watch this year. The feature was initially intended to assist fertility planning. The future Apple Watch models will be able to detect if the user has a higher than average body temperature. However, it is unlikely to provide an accurate measurement similar to blood pressure. It works the same way Fitbit does on the Sense: you receive a range and are informed by the temperature delta that you have deviated from the normal range.
Apple will improve its atrial fibrillation detection function with watchOS 9. It calculates “burden”, which is how often someone is in atrial fibrillation over a period of time. WatchOS 9 will also include a low-power mode, allowing the smartwatch to run a few apps and features less battery.
The user can expect new workout types and extra running metrics to be introduced to the Workout application and “several” of the built-in watch faces to be upgraded.
According to Bloomberg Tech reporter Mark Gurman, Apple’s efforts to improve its health features and several departures from its Health Team. The employees were unhappy with Apple’s progress. Also, Mark claimed that improvements are taking too much time, there are not enough risks, and the health team has not grown in at most two years.
Satellite connectivity could be a feature of the latest smartphone lineup, which would allow users to send emergency messages and report incidents via satellite networks. Apple is rumoured to be working on similar features in future Apple Watch models.
This year, Apple plans to release “as many as” three Apple Watches, including a low-end SE, a basic Series 8, and “an expensive model with a tough case geared at extreme athletes.”
If Apple adheres to its typical schedule, we should see the Apple Watch Series 8 for the first time in September 2022. In June, we will most likely see watchOS 9 for the first time at WWDC. These events are still months away but Watch updates rumors are growing.
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