Calm down, guys. Health Canada must approve it first. It'll probabye come later.
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Apple Watch's Sleep Apnea Detection Feature Now Available in More Than 150 Countries
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Calm down, guys. Health Canada must approve it first. It'll probabye come later.
I don't buy tech on probabilities anymore. Had my lesson a couple of times. It's not even listed as a feature on Apple's website.
Is it region lock in settings? I wonder if you change region to us will it work? I’m getting watch 10 Friday so can’t test it yet.
fairy dust. no reason it won’t work beside greed
Is the sleep apnoea function purely accelerometer in countries where the blood oxygen sensor is still present? It would be good if it made use of that outside the US
Don't we all? They have to pay for all this R&D somehow right?
hey MacRumors, your 3rd paragraph sentence should tell people how to to enable this feature. I don't see how to enable this anywhere in your article!!
Apple released watchOS 11 today following months of beta testing. A key new health-related feature included in the software update is sleep apnea detection, which is available starting today on the Apple Watch Series 10, Apple Watch Series 9, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in more than 150 countries and regions, according to Apple.
The list of countries includes the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and many others, with a full list available on Apple's website. A few English-speaking countries where the feature is not yet available are Australia and Canada, as Apple is still seeking regulatory clearance for the feature in some regions.
Sleep apnea is a potentially serious disorder in which a person's breathing repeatedly stops and starts while they sleep. The detection feature uses the Apple Watch's accelerometer to "monitor small movements at the wrist that are associated with interruptions in normal respiratory patterns," according to Apple. If these disturbances occur frequently over multiple nights, they may be associated with sleep apnea, according to Apple.
Apple Watch users can view their nightly Breathing Disturbances in the Health app on the iPhone, with disturbances classified as "elevated" or "not elevated."
Apple says the feature was developed using "advanced machine learning" and an "extensive data set of clinical-grade sleep apnea tests," and then validated in a "clinical study." Apple's fine print says the feature is intended to detect signs of moderate to severe sleep apnea for people 18 years old or older who have not already been diagnosed with sleep apnea.
Apple recently received FDA clearance for the feature in the U.S., and the company shared a document describing the development and validation of the feature.
The new Apple Watch Series 10 launches on Friday, while the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 were released last year.
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Sleep Apnea detection is based on accelerometer data, yes yes. But it requires the neural cores to actually do the detection/calculation. The S8 and older SIPs have no neural cores. These were introduced with the S9 last year (Series 9 and Ultra 2).
While I think Apple does from time to time artificially gate features, in this case not having those neural cores is actually a big thing.
(I have programmed some light AI/ML things and not having an accelerator is a big difference or even roadblock in getting things done).
i didnt either.
i just went to the health app, and it was one of the first things offered.
so....humans can also just be...idk...self helping creatures sometimes.
Where can I get the free apple watches with the sleep apnea detection feature disabled?
Snore loud, choke up in the night sleeping, others say you snore loudly,go take a sleep test at the hospital and care centers worries solved.
Not sure what a watch is going to do for ya after the fact.
My doctor on a check up asked if I snored and all things were taken care of.
Sleep test only way to know.
Not sure what a watch is going to do for ya after the fact.
My doctor on a check up asked if I snored and all things were taken care of.
Sleep test only way to know.
The accelerometer doesn't give much data, I think regular processor cores are enough for that calculations. This is just a politics.
Am I understanding correctly that my original ULTRA watch won't have sleep apnea capability?
That’s correct, ultra 2 and series 9 and 10
Thanks for your response. I wonder why? Is there some gadget that is not present in the Ultra 1 causing the Ultra 1 not to have apnea capability? Or is it Apple trying to force me to upgrade to Ultra 2?