Last week, Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Series 10 at its “It’s Glowtime” event. While the new smartwatch and its predecessor will support a new sleep apnea detection feature, another feature said to be in the works – blood pressure monitoring – was not announced at the event. Some previous smartwatch models from rivals support this feature, and it is still expected to appear in future versions of the Apple Watch.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in the latest edition of his weekly Power On newsletter that Apple plans to introduce support for blood pressure monitoring in the Apple Watch Series 10. The reporter cites a source who says that Apple’s changes to the design of the latest models caused some issues with the feature during testing, “particularly in the updated design of the Series 10.”
As a result, the ability to check blood pressure levels won’t be available on the Apple Watch Series 10, which makes the new sleep apnea detection feature the first major health feature to be introduced in the past few years. The feature is designed to warn users who may have a condition that causes breathing to stop and resume during sleep, which can cause them to wake up repeatedly.
Sleep apnea detection wasn’t the only health feature Apple announced at its hardware event on September 9. While the company didn’t launch a follow-up to the AirPods Pro (2nd generation) model, it updated the True Wireless Stereo (TWS) earphones with a new feature that lets wearers use them as medical-grade hearing aids.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the wireless earphones for use as over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids last week, making the second-generation AirPods the first such product to receive approval from the regulator since it introduced new guidelines for such products in 2022.
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