Apple is bringing sleep apnea detection and hearing aid capabilities to its Apple Watch and AirPods Pro 2.
) Apple Intelligence AI platform stole the show at the company’s “Glowtime” iPhone event on Monday. But a pair of health features the company unveiled point to Apple ’s continued push into the healthcare space and may prove just as important to keeping users around as its AI efforts.
So it makes sense that the company would add features to some of its most popular products, the AirPods Pro 2 and Apple Watch Series 9, 10, and Ultra 2, that address well-known health problems. Apple says that an estimated 1 billion people around the world have sleep apnea, a disorder that causes breathing disruptions while sleeping and can increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease, but the majority of those individuals don’t know they have it.
If you’ve experienced enough sleep disturbances, the Health app will alert you that you’re showing signs of sleep apnea. Your breathing can change for any number of reasons from night to night, whether that’s due to a cold or drinking alcohol. Requiring users to wear their watches for 10 nights should help account for those outlier situations.
I didn’t get to test the hearing aid feature itself, but Apple is positioning it as a replacement for over-the-counter hearing aids for people with mild to moderate hearing loss. Users with severe hearing problems will still need purpose-built hearing aids.
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