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Apple Reportedly Planning Multiple New Apple Watch Health Features, Including Temperature and Blood-Pressure Monitoring

“diabetes detection”? The FDA might take issue with a claim like that and I doubt anyone at Apple would dare to be so foolish and list that as a feature.
 
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Sounds like Apple has lots of cool plans for the Apple Watch in the future. The more sensors the better. I am disappointed that it seems like we won't be getting any new health features this year. I'd love to see better battery life and automatic sleep detection with sleep stages - if Fitbit can do it there is no reason Apple can't.
 
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I always thought all those fitness apps were a joke. A time keeper is all I need. I jog and have been for years. And also some other routines.

These sensors are another matter.
 
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This is why I'm holding out for Series 8, even though Series 7 will be a redesign with slightly larger display. Although I wish they would just go up to 46mm instead of 45mm, but that might have been harder to do and keep backwards compatibility with watch bands. It also helps that my Series 4 is doing MUCH better at this point in its lifespan than my Series 0 was.
Amazing Iceman said:
Will it alert you when your wife is hot?
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Now that would be a killer feature. Women are typically in a higher state of arousal during their ovulation window. Unfortunately this is also the time where they are most likely to conceive, so take appropriate evasive maneuvers and/or defensive measures, men.
 
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Macalway said:
I always thought all those fitness apps were a joke. A time keeper is all I need. I jog, btw. A lot, and have been for years. And also other routines.

These sensors are another matter.
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Personally, I found the fitness features on the AW to be quite a game changer for me. And I workout, a lot.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
Personally, I found the fitness features on the AW to be quite a game changer for me. And I workout, a lot.
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How so? I couldn't expand my routines, as they are fixed and have been for decades. How would an app change that?

I must be missing something. I just don't know.
 
So blood pressure... but not really. Temperature.. but not really.

lol. great features.
 
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I always thought all those fitness apps were a joke. A time keeper is all I need. I jog and have been for years. And also some other routines.

These sensors are another matter.
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first of all — it's a great motivator. secondly, it gives you a breakdown of your activity and calories burned based on the type of exercise. a stopwatch falls short. but hey, if you're motivated enough on your own — that's really great. wish i was too :)
 
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Macalway said:
How so? I couldn't expand my routines, as they are fixed and have been for decades. How would an app change that?

I must be missing something.
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Well, if you noticed I talked about myself. It is very possible that what works for me doesn't work for you, and viceversa.

However, to answer your question, it makes tracking easy, and it allows me to be more precise in my efforts.
  • The obvious example is that I can track very easily my workout routines. One click, and it's monitored with calorie count, duration, BPM etc. Yesterday night I went to my Martial Arts class, and I easily recorded 502 active calories (650 total), and an average of 109BPM with max 169BPM (during sparring). The calorie count truly allows me to fix my daily food intake on the fly, for example. Today I also recorded 50 minutes of weight lifting (200 cal), that in about an hour will be followed by an hour of high intensity cardio, and possibly a jog or some yoga tonight. I will adjust my food intake accordingly.
  • With everything recorded, it is easy to make adjustments to plans. For example, I noticed that Tuesday mornings for some reasons are very hard for me, which means that although I will try to do my lifts on Tuesday, I will not rely on it. I also noticed that Saturday mornings I am extremely effective, which caused me to make sure to not make any appointment on Saturday mornings unless I truly have to.
  • Obviously cardio is quite easy to monitor (time per mile).
  • The fact that I can see my goals at the bottom left corner of the watch each time I check for the time or a message truly works wonders.
  • The monthly challenges are quite amazing if you ask me.
  • The standing feature convinced me to get a standing desk (life changer).
Now, the objection is that other tools can help with the above, even pen and paper. True. There are good fitness measuring tools outside, however none of them is so perfectly integrated with all the other features (for me, music, messages and phone calls without a phone around), on top of the perfect integration with the iPhone (myfitnesspal, health app to record stuff like blood pressure, Vo2Max etc.)

The AW allowed me to be incredibly minimalistic and at the same time very effective. Considering that my goal is to reach 12% body fat before Christmas without losing much weight (aka: gain muscle), precision, consistency, and simplicity are key. I think that the AW has been a blessing in my journey; I was 199lbs in November 2020 and I am now at 170lbs, and I have way more muscle than before. I got the AW in late December and I could see its impact on my life almost immediately.
 
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A blood ketone monitor would be great: wonderful to see when in ketosis. Burning ketone bodies generates less ROS (i.e., free radicals) than burning glucose -- a key factor in overall health. Quantifying this with a continuously-monitoring tool would be a breakthrough in monitoring our vitality.
 
Sir_Macs_A_Lot said:
Wondering if the price of the AW6 will drop when 7 comes out?
At any rate. Someone wake me when Diabetes detection finally arrives!
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I think the line-up will just be the 7 and the SE, with the latter getting a small price drop.
 
I still don't know or trust this blood pressure monitoring idea, no one has bettered the cuff pumped up with air idea. But Apple is apparently going to do so on a watch? Hmm I'll await to see if it gets medical approval.
 
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