“The new Apple Watch can actually sense back through time, using ultra wideband technology, a temperature sensor and the microphone, it can work out each time “Happy Birthday” while you were the closest to burning candles. After our developers worked that out, it was a simple matter to count the number of these occurrences in order to figure out how old you are.
I think next on the medical accessory agenda is a portable MRI where you spin the watch around you and get a medical grade MRI.
There are too many variables to get a good temperature reading externally at the wrist. Some can be accounted for, but I doubt we’ll see it in the Watch, at least for the foreseeable future.
Unfortunately you won't be able to use any of the advanced health tracking features on an Apple Watch that isn't paired with the user's own iPhone. Presumably apps like ECG, Blood Oxygen, Sleep, and Cycle Tracking are disabled entirely when an Apple Watch is using Family Setup, so you wouldn't even be able to check these features directly on someone's Apple Watch — they simply won't work at all.
That wouldn't really qualify under the heading of "She doesn't want anything bigger"
Same here. I was thinking about getting one from my 80 year old dad who has issues with falling, is diabetic and has had heart issues. The only cell phone he currently uses is a TracPhone that he has to refill with mins. I was going to get this also for the cell plan because only time he uses one is in an emergency to either let me know where he is, if his car is broke down, etc. but now I am less inclined to get it.
Well, you’d still have access to the Fall Detection feature, along with Emergency SOS notifications, which could be enough of a reason by itself.
Say I got my mum her own iPhone, just to set this all up for her. Since she wouldn't use the iPhone itself, would the features of the watch work? I mean, I'd just link it to her iPhone which would probably be sat on a shelf at home somewhere. If she went out and aboout without the iPhone, would the features work?
As long you buy the cellular-capable Apple Watch, then you'd be able to do most of the same things you can do when the iPhone is nearby. The GPS-only model requires the iPhone in order to get connected to the internet (although it can also use known Wi-Fi access points that as long as they're not "captive" Wi-Fi networks — ones that require you to go through a sign-on page).
Thanks a lot for this, it's really useful to know. Yers, it's mainly for the health monitoring features, and I can just check in on the Health app.
That might technically work, althogh I'm not sure if health data will sync back to the iPhone via Wi-Fi or if it needs to have a direct Bluetooth connection — it definitely required a direct connection originally for privacy and security reasons, but now that Apple allows health data to sync with end-to-end encryption via iCloud it may have extended that to the watch, although I wouldn't count on it as Apple doesn't relaly have any incentive to add direct sync, since most Apple Watch users have their iPhone nearby more often than not.
