09.09.2024 21:00 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Apple brings sleep apnea detection to the Watch Series 10

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 iPhones 16 launch event, the company announced the new Watch Series 10, 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 longstanding patent row with Masimo that 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

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