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'High-Accuracy' Apple Watch Temperature Sensor Revealed by Patent Filing Just Weeks Before Series 8 Unveiling
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Maybe it will be smart enough to determine your "normal" temp so it can alert you when it is our of range either way by some threshhold
Even better if it could network with other users. Notification: Stay the *$*$ away from user 1234 7m front and to the right of you.
Yes, but how will that fit in the Apple Watch? It’s kind of long and pointy. 🫣
Mood Ring 2.0.
Apple. You gave us silly, fun Memojis. It’s time to bring back the mood ring.
True. I can can get around 5% difference in readings within the same minute sometimes.
Though… when I was sick, I was getting consistent low around 94% which was very interesting. 😯
*edit: interesting. 22 hours ago was at 94 reading. Just tried twice now and got 99 both times. Guess I’m better? 🤷♂️
My guess is the temperature sensor will be for the regular 8 as well.
Otherwise there would be very little reason to buy an 8 for those with an AW 4, 5,6, or 7.
Otherwise there would be very little reason to buy an 8 for those with an AW 4, 5,6, or 7.
and won't allow you to text your ex?
Yep, they could combine that with your vaccination information to produce a health indicator that could be used for flights and access to restaurants and indoor sporting events.
Considering how Apple aggressively markets the Apple Watch as a health device, making this feature only available (even at launch) on only the (significantly) most expensive model aimed at the (relatively) niche "athletic" market makes little sense to me as the people who are going to buy the Apple Watch Pro are probably not that interested in this feature compared to all the others it is rumored to have.
As such, I expect it to be on all Series 8 models at launch.
if your feeling sick, you put a $15 Pulsax on your finger and keep it there like they do at hospitals. This really helped my family during the virus phase. I learned that it can be dangerous to not know whats accurately going on with heart rate, temperature and oxygen in blood. I wouldn't trust the watch to warn me. its literally an indicator of, "go to hospital now or you'll collapse randomly soon"
When or if they add accurate glucose monitoring... that will be the game changing feature....they are several years from that.... I suspect they thought temperature was important because of Covid....
there is a way to take your temperature that's not so visible...you'd be walking around like Frankenstein but at least you'd get consistent readings.
Patent application filed in 2020 and published Jan 2022. I don't believe this as the device in the Series 8 for a second. Also such a device would not be accurate enough. Much more likely it's the Rockley sensor I think.
Earlier rumors said that the sensor wouldn't reveal your actual temperature, but rather alert you if it's higher or lower than "normal." Initially, this seemed like a cop-out but in hindsight, that's more useful than knowing it down to the 1/10 of a degree.
I could see an alert along the lines of "YOUR BODY TEMP HAS BEEN HIGHER THAN NORMAL FOR THE LAST 24 HOURS. IF YOU FEEL UNWELL, CONSULT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL."
Agreed, it's a nice feature (especially after all this COVID stuff) but I won't be upgrading my 7 just for that.