México??? Maybe never
I hope soon. I’m also waiting for Apple Pay
México??? Maybe never
Maybe you should ask Australian regulators about that 🤷🏻♂️
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And you have proofs about your claims, right?
Unfortunately, not strictly correct based on my experience - international roaming in the UK Jan 2020 - ECG functionality did not work.
Maybe you should ask Australian regulators about that 🤷🏻♂️
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And you have proofs about your claims, right?
So basically all of Europe and US approved it (and called it accurate) but you are saying Australia is saying otherwise...
Pretty credible...
The activation for ECG is verified by checking whether the iPhone is currently connected to a cellular network in one of the activated countries (using the cell phone tower's country code identifier), and that the Watch hardware region code is from an activated region. No GPS is used, and the hardware region code of the Watch doesn't need to match the country code identifier of the cell tower.
Australia and NZ happen to share a single hardware region code ("X") for Apple Watch, so any Watch bought in Australia can already be activated by taking it to any other country that has ECG approved and connecting the paired iPhone to the local phone network (even by just using international roaming).
e.g. buy a Watch in Australia and activate ECG in Hong Kong. Buy a Watch in Canada and activate it in the USA. Buy a Watch from NZ and activate it in Hong Kong.
I really don't get why countries are being so damn slow regarding the approval of Apple's ECG. It's been almost two years since they introduced it and yet there are only so many countries who actually support that feature among other health related ones. If it took US to get that feature so quickly (I believe it was ready at launch?), then the rest of the world can do it too. Or maybe Apple prioritises which countries should get it before others?
Read previous comments in this thread. Apple hasn't applied for approval to the relevant Government body in Australia, so it appears (at face value) to be Apple's fault.Does anyone know the answer for Australia?