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Health Canada Gives Green Light to ECG App on Apple Watch
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Nope. This is a user forum. Also, Apple is very secretive about exact release dates for any of their products and services. They haven't said anything at all about ECG in Singapore or anywhere else yet.
The BDay gifts this week just keep on coming
I’ll be purchasing another soon enough from insurance
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Not to worry and if you do the Breathe app on the watch can definitely set you at ease! Great to see you’re still taking charge of your health at 70! Congrats and here’s to long healthy fruitful life ahead!
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You must have not read the post directly above yours before posting. Uncannily, I’d say take a good read and NOT wait until it maybe too late! We all should be aware of our own heart health even if at a minimal glance and insight. I seriously commend Apple for making this more popular than others in the industry have done ... great use of technology and marketing dollars by Apple.
On the real start to communicate these fats with close family and friends and keep in contact. Schedule a proper doctors visit to schedule a proper specialist for heart health testing. Look HEAVILY into your diet NOW: our actions today have important impact for tomorrow and months down the road!!
Tell him to simply buy one from an Apple store in the USA. I did that and ECG functions worked for me in Canada prior to the government approval.
Great, then also tell your friend to set up the watch BEFORE he leaves the US to go back to Singapore. If he takes the watch back to Singapore without setting up, he won't be able to use ECG there because apple introduced a location check based on carrier data in iOS 12.2 and watchOS 5.2 that prevents from finishing the setup process while physically located in an unsupported region.
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Not so simply. I guess you probably bought your Apple Watch series 4 and set up ECG before iOS 12.2 and watchOS 5.2 were released, just like I did, and we both easily got ECG working in our respective countries Canada and Mexico prior to government approval.
However, in iOS 12.2 and watchOS 5.2, released last march, Apple got harsh more than ever before and introduced additional restrictions on ECG. They now verify the user's physical location using carrier data before allowing the user to complete the initial setup process for the ECG app. Therefore, anyone who buys their series 4 Apple Watch in a region where ECG is supported now needs to also perform the initial setup for ECG while physically located in a supported region in order to be able to use ECG.
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That is hard to test and confirm. Seems silly - If some guy buys a watch the airport and then flies to some other country and opens the box over international waters I wonder if his ECG will no activate. haha.
It won’t. It used to activate before iOS 12.2, but it won’t anymore now. Like I said, Apple uses carrier data to check location. They can simply determine if the iphone is roaming and where, and prevent ECG setup based on that. That’s why, as 9to5.com reported back in its day, ECG setup in iOS 12.2 and watchOS 5.2 or later now requires to have an active SIM in the paired iphone and the iphone not to be in airplane mode. It did happen to a few people, when ECG rolled out in Europe, that they couldn’t set up ECG while they were physically located in an unsupported region.
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Seems like this could make some USA citizen customers unhappy if they order from abroad.
People will jump hoops to get the ECG function but if you are a US a citizen you should not have to. People travel all around the earth So it seems like a lot of extra effort to change things for no particular reason And in a way that I actually could affect legitimate USA located customers who happened to be on travel.
I have to believe what you say but it just doesn’t make any logical sense to me that Apple would have done that. But from what you say, I guess they did.
Yup. People who live in a supported country and buy their watch in an unsupported country while traveling wouldn't get ECG (BTW since march 25th the US is no longer the only region where ECG is available, as on that day the feature was rolled out to 19 other regions and then to a couple more a few weeks later). I can assure you, though, that the location check isn't performed constantly but rather just during the initial setup, so customers who live in a supported region and set up ECG don't lose the feature when they travel elsewhere. Neither do customers outside the US, like me, who bought a US Apple Watch and set up ECG before iOS 12.2 and watchOS 5.2 were released. We did not loose any ECG functionality.
Apparently Apple found out that, when ECG came out in the US only, some people were buying US apple watches and activating and using ECG elsewhere, so they set out to try to prevent people from doing that when they rolled out the feature to other regions. Stupid, but when have Apple's restrictions ever made any sense?