9 Apple Watch Health Features That Fly Under the Radar, According to a Doctor at Apple
The Apple Watch includes several underutilized health features that can provide valuable insights into users' well-being. Dr. Lauren Cheung, a doctor at Apple, highlights tools like the Vitals app, noise monitoring, and ovulation estimates as potentially life-saving. These features use advanced sensors to track metrics such as heart rate, environmental noise, and temperature changes for proactive health management.
- ▪The Vitals app uses overnight metrics like heart rate, wrist temperature, respiratory rate, and sleep duration to monitor health trends and send alerts when readings are out of range.
- ▪The Noise app measures environmental sound levels and can notify users when they are exposed to potentially harmful noise, helping protect hearing health.
- ▪Ovulation estimates are enabled by advanced temperature sensing on Apple Watch Series 8 and later, using tiny temperature shifts to identify ovulation and improve period predictions.
- ▪Users must wear the Apple Watch consistently for at least seven days to establish baseline readings for the Vitals app.
- ▪The Cycle Tracking app requires setup through the Health app with fertility predictions enabled to provide ovulation estimates.
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If you regularly wear an Apple Watch, you've probably discovered the apps most useful to your daily life, like responding to emails and texts, checking the weather and using Apple Pay for contactless payments. But there are host of health apps and features that might not currently be on your radar, and they have the potential to be life-saving. I spoke with Dr. Lauren Cheung, a doctor at Apple, who reviewed the hidden health features on the Apple Watch and why they were created.Apple Watch Series 11 $329 at Amazon 1. The Vitals app for sleep and moreUsing overnight health metrics, the Vitals app can reveal much about your health and how it changes day to day.
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