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Apple Watch Series 11 Announced With Hypertension Detection, Sleep Score, and More
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The Samsung watch has been able to do this for years.
It will be interesting to see what the parameters of the BP monitor are. How will body shape influence it, and age?
Also, I would think combined, this would be an advance towards general health monitoring, maybe with AI? Will you be able to adjust it?
Also, I would think combined, this would be an advance towards general health monitoring, maybe with AI? Will you be able to adjust it?
My hunch is this is machine learning detection rather than a new sensor added. It likely uses a combination of oximetry, temperature, and other data to detect possible hypertension. I could be wrong though!
Edit: Yes, definitely some form of machine learning: "As of September 9, 2025, hypertension notifications are currently under FDA review and expected to be cleared this month, with availability on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later. The feature is not intended for use by people under 22 years old, those who have been previously diagnosed with hypertension, or pregnant persons."
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Hypertension notifications are currently under FDA review and expected to be cleared this month, with availability on Apple Watch Series 9 and later, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later. The feature is not intended for use by people under 22 years old, those who have been previously diagnosed with hypertension, or during pregnancy.
Yes, they support itHmm, I can see hypertension being Watch 11 only, but sleep score? Seriously, older apple watches can't do that?
Sleep score is available with watchOS 26 for Apple Watch Series 6 or later, Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) or later, and all Apple Watch Ultra models, paired with iPhone 11 or later, running iOS 26.
The hypertension alert seems super useful. They claim to alert 1 billion people in the first year although some may already be aware they have this condition. I think it's a great motivator to get active and clean up your diet. Could save a lot of misery.
So there's no sensor with the 11? People should be well aware of this, as I could see it causing some confusion. But it was just announce, so.....
- Hypertension notifications are currently under FDA review and expected to be cleared this month, with availability on Apple Watch Series 9 and later, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later. The feature is not intended for use by people under 22 years old, those who have been previously diagnosed with hypertension, or during pregnancy.
Wow! Good on Apple for enabling hypertension and sleep score on older models! I had a feeling they would after that moving video at the beginning.
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It wasn’t clear. I would expect the hypertension feature might be the new models only. But as others have said, the sleep score feature feels like it should be possible on older models. But maybe not 🤷♂️
Thanks for finding this. Looks like I can get away with my Apple Watch Series 9 for another year!
Sweet, my AW 9 will get all the new goodies. I definitely use it for sleep, here's hoping I don't see the hypertension warning.
It’s quite an amazing world we live in where people *expect* their hardware to be more capable year/s after purchase due to free upgrades. And not just expect, but get angry when that expectation isn’t realized.
