Health is past, present and future on the Apple Watch. The company has a medical team behind it in charge of studying not only the reliability of its measuring instruments, but also assessing what this watch will have in the future. Apple Watch blood oxygen measurement debuted in the Series 6 generation after years of buzz, and now the next big addition in this area is on the horizon. Here we tell you what the company is investigating now.
Blood pressure measurement for Apple Watch
Despite the fact that every functionality added to your smartwatch requires medical approval, Apple always insists on emphasizing that despite the accuracy of its measurements, the Apple Watch cannot be treated as a medical instrument. It is a useful system to prevent certain diseases or help us control our health in a certain way and there have already been many testimonies that assure the importance that the device has had in their lives. Precisely following this path, the firm led by Tim Cook plans to incorporate constant blood pressure measurement in the future.
Precisely the fact that this measurement can be carried out constantly is what is causing headaches for the company, since it is normally carried out through the well-known sleeves that are swelling. Obviously this would not only be cumbersome for a watch, but also uncomfortable.
For the Apple Watch Series 7?
All this has been learned through the patent registration that the company has made in recent hours. Therefore we should not expect it directly for the Series 7, since it could simply be a possibility that ends up being discarded or that it takes longer to develop.
In any case, we recall that according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple could ” improve the design ” of the Apple Watch in the next generation. Following those literal words we could intuit that it would not directly be a design change as has been rumored on so many occasions, but perhaps it could be an even better use of frames or change of screen size.
Other great features such as temperature measurement are also on the table. Although it is known that it was studied for the Series 6, the truth is that it could not have been ready and is now one of the new star functions of the next generation. Be that as it may, there are still 10 months of waiting in which we will continue to read and hear rumors and leaks of the device before its official presentation.