Adam Kos Apple has been adding built-in health tracking features to the iPhone and Apple Watch over the years, integrating the Health app. This year will be no exception, as the iPhone 14 is rumored to feature an automatic call for help in the event of a car accident. But that's not all we can look forward to.
Apple Watch will actually get more people tracking their health, up to 50% on a daily basis. And this is a rather fundamental factor in trying to constantly deepen and improve the connection between a watch and a person. Even though Apple has not been churning out one new function after another for its smart watches lately, it certainly does not mean that it is not planning anything for us in the future.
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WWDC22 starts in two months (June 6) and that's where we'll find out what news watchOS 9 will bring us. However smart the Apple Watch may be, it is viewed as an activity tracker and health monitor more than a timer with the ability to notify us of events. In the previous update, we saw a redesigned breathing application, which became Mindfulness, Sleep was added with breathing rate tracking, or fall detection during exercise.
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Body temperature measurement
Although it will be like in the case of Face ID with a mask, i.e. Apple will come up with the given function with a cross after the funus, however, it is true that measuring body temperature is important not only during a pandemic. Competitors' smart watches can already do this, and it's only a matter of time before the Apple Watch learns to measure body temperature as well. But it is very likely that this function will only be part of new watch models, as specialized sensors will be needed for this.
Glucose concentration monitoring
Even this feature would be closely tied to the new hardware. It has also been speculated about for quite some time, so it only depends on whether Apple can come up with some reliable non-invasive method of measuring blood sugar. So while this feature would be tied to watchOS 9, it will again not be available to older Apple Watch models.
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Pavel Jelic The Health app itself
If the Apple Watch currently lacks any application, it is, paradoxically, Health. The one on the iPhone serves as an overview of all your health data, from measuring sleep and daily activities to noise alerts and tracking various symptoms. Since the vast majority of this information comes from the Apple Watch, it would make sense for a similar "manager" to be available directly on your wrist. Sleep monitoring, heart rate trends, activities, etc. are currently monitored in separate applications. The application could also be drastically redesigned, because nothing has changed in its appearance for a long time, and when you look at it, it is rather cumbersome and unnecessarily confusing.
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Rest
Activity rings are great for tracking daily goals and motivation, but sometimes the body just needs a break. So this would be one wish for the Apple Watch to finally offer the occasional time off without sacrificing your stats in closed circles. So that the user does not lie to them, they could perhaps combine data based on sleep data or other health indicators, in which case they would simply offer the choice of rest themselves. It's not just when we're sick, but also because rest is an important element of any training regime.
