For Apple, not easy to add a tensiometer function to its Watch
If we have to wait for new Apple Watch, it will be for the start of the 2025 school year, during the traditional keynote Apple devoted to its new iPhone largely. But in the meantime, the future of these connected watches arouses curiosity, especially since new features dedicated to health are expected.
Like very often, it is the journalist of Bloomberg Mark Gurman who, in his Newletter Power onventilate the little secrets of Cupertino. He who has assured for several months that Apple hopes to launch the function in 2025, specifies in his last edition that the function of monitoring the blood pressure which occupies it “Continue to encounter problems” During the tests led by Apple.
Pressure tension
It must be said that this type of option cannot suffer any error: since it is a health function intended in particular to prevent cases of high blood pressure, the manufacturer has the right to no margin of error. Like the ECG (electrocardiogram) options, for example, such a functionality must also be subject to the approval of the American health authorities (the FDA) if Apple wishes to give it a medical status. And the stakes are high: the latest studies in the USA estimate that almost 50 % of the American population suffers from hypertension. And for the time being, there are few general public watches to offer blood pressure monitoring options, with the exception of the recent Watch D2 created by Huawei, however absent from the North American market.
If it is not sure that the next generation of Apple Watch is able to measure tension, it is possible that it is able to observe the outside world. It is murmur indeed that it would embark cameras to call on the Visual Intelligence function (recognition of the outside world powered by AI) on the wrist. A whole program that we should also know a little more in June, since the WWDC (the Apple conference dedicated to developers) which takes place just before the start of summer is generally an opportunity to reveal a new version of its operating system for connected watches, Watchos.
