Apple is reportedly planning to bring new features, including, blood pressure monitoring and sleep apnea detection to an Apple Watch with an updated design in 2024.
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple’s blood pressure sensor technology coming next year that will include hypertension detection. The system is designed to just tell a user if their blood pressure is trending upward and to offer a journal for the user to jot down what was happening when hypertension occurred .
“To avoid potentially giving a misdiagnosis, the feature will then direct a user to talk to their doctor or check their blood pressure with a traditional cuff, which can provide exact systolic and diastolic measurements,” the report said.
As per Gurman, Apple Watch in 2024 will also feature sleep apnea detection feature. It will use sleep and breathing patterns to estimate whether someone has the condition, and then direct users to see a physician.
Reports have also suggested that the Cupertino-based tech giant is also working on non-invasive blood glucose monitoring. Apple’s system is said to use a silicon photonics chip to shine light from a laser under the skin to determine the concentration of glucose in the body.
The glucose monitoring has been designed in a similar way to the blood pressure system, in that it currently monitors how a person’s blood sugar is trending and warns users of pre-diabetes, rather than offer an actual blood sugar reading, MacRumors reported. However, Apple’s blood glucose monitoring efforts remain unlikely to show up in a product for at least a few years, Gurman said.
In related news, a report by Bloomberg also revealed that Apple wanted to make the Apple Watch compatible with Android phones, however, the company had pulled the plug on this support at the last minute. Bringing Apple Watch to Android would have opened up a whole new market for the company where you have billions of smartphones.
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