Apple Watch's New Sleep Apnea Detection Feature Approved in Canada

[nfilipek]

If it's an older Apple Watch, it can run slow.

No, it runs the app just fine but the problem is when you start wateher app on watch it displays info in a split of a secound and then it shows nothing like it is not working. When you tap on three lines in left corner then it updates the paces and when you go back it shows the weather normaly. After a couple of minutes it is working but after 10 or more minutes the same anoying thing happens. This bug is introduced with watchos 11 update. It has newer happened before.

 

[harrisondavies]

Aponea.

 

[amartinez1660]

I have problems with weather app on apple watch. It takes a long time to display actual weather info. It may be a bug.

EDIT: hadn’t seen your latest message, sounds definitely like a watchOS 11 bug.

There was a watchOS update (a year ago already?) that completely “overhauled” the weather app to its massive detriment.

If it is what you are referring to: before it was always there and ready as soon as you tapped on it, could see both the conditions and temperature at the same time, quick flick down to see the rest of the day’s incoming forecast.

Now the UX is worse in a major way, need to tap tons of times to see first temperature and then if it is rainy, it’s slow, incredibly slow… the data is never ready when deciding to look at it, etc

 

[CapitalIdea]

I don’t know why you’re offended because people ask questions or expect more from Apple. The article says the watch uses the accelerometer, if the original ultra has an accelerometer it should have this feature too.

This isn’t the regular watch either, this is the Ultra top of line, I expect it to be able to have basic stuff like this for at least 3-4 years before being left out. Same thing for it not being able to play music as if it doesn’t have a speaker.

You didn’t ask a question. You made a statement, and a false one at that. Then when you were corrected you said “nah” and doubled down on the lie. Then, you lied again by trying to pretend you were asking a question.

 

[votdfak]

It uses the accelerometer for the data collection, but sends that data to the NPU to be made sense of. No NPU, no apnea detection.

They could presumably do that math on the GPU or CPU even, but that increases power consumption on a device with less-than-stellar battery life.

Ultra 1 could collect all data and iPhone could do the math with it’s NPUs? Correct?

 

[redbeard331]

You didn’t ask a question. You made a statement, and a false one at that. Then when you were corrected you said “nah” and doubled down on the lie. Then, you lied again by trying to pretend you were asking a question.

Woo wow, cool down there, I can see you are very emotionally attached to this issue so I’ll let you simmer.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Ultra 1 could collect all data and iPhone could do the math with it’s NPUs? Correct?

Could be that it is doing whatever calculations in real time, making bluetooth's latency a potential issue. Though at this point the best we can do is speculate - I doubt Apple is keen to share how exactly it works.

I don't buy that they restricted it to newer watches to try and move units though. If that was the case, they wouldn't have brought it to S9.

 

[niftychimp]

Just updated both Apple Watch and iPhone to latest developer beta, sleep apnea notification shows up in Health Checklist, but listed under Unavailable. Both the phone and watch have region set to United States. Don’t know if this is due to the same geo region detection Apple deployed for services such as Apple News

 

[Drealiz]

Iirc due to the IP lawsuit that Masimo won, they can’t use pulseox. Shame because that would be the gold standard and best way to determine apnea.

Frankly, working in the med device space, I’m surprised it’s taken Apple this long to come up with it.

Imo on of their bigger dysfunctions is medical specialty bias on their project teams that’s caused some not insignificant delays.

Apple acquired some IP from a Seattle startup, that utilizes both motion and auditory cues.

I question the effectiveness of the auditory piece because in my case my wife snores louder than I do. Unsure how it can differentiate between the two especially if I have my hand in between both of us and were facing each other.

The patent issue only affected watches sold in the US. This article is discussing the sleep apnea function in Canada, which has the pulse ox.