The Cupertino smartwatch may well have a new health monitoring feature in the future.
According to our colleagues from 9to5Mac, having had access to bits of the iOS 14 code, Apple was working on a feature providing measurement of the oxygen level in the blood for owners ofApple Watch. Thus, the watch could prevent an oxygen level of less than 80%, risking hypoxemia, and impairing the proper functioning of the heart and the brain.
Cupertino would thus strengthen the health monitoring capacities of theApple Watch highlighted by the firm, and would join Fitbit which already offers this feature on Ionic, the Versa and Charge 3. This new measure may not be reserved for the next generation ofApple Watch, the plethysmograph fitted to current models would indeed be able to measure the oxygen level in the blood, and a simple software development would be possible.
The engineers would also work to to lift certain limits heart rate monitoringApple Watch, and allow it to detect atrial fibrillation when the wearer’s heart rate is between 100 and 120 beats per minute.
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