https://www.self.com/story/apple-watch-series-3
Today, at Apple's annual keynote presentation, the company announced its upcoming fall launches. Among them: a new Apple Watch operating system, watchOS 4, and a brand new Apple Watch Series 3 model with LTE capability. At the event, SELF learned that both have some exciting new fitness- and health-tracking features.
Here's a quick look at the new updates.
The latest operating system comes with useful activity tracking updates and the ability to sync with gym equipment.
The new operating system, Apple watchOS 4,
which will be available for download on September 19, 2017 to all Apple
Watch users, has updated activity tracking features, like a new HIIT
workout option, and auto tracking during swimming workouts. There will
also be a new gym feature that will sync with your gym equipment—like
treadmills or stationary bikes from brands that partner with Apple on
this—so that you can just tap your watch and send your workout metrics
to it.
The Heart Rate app will be able to track your resting heart rate throughout the day. It can also alert you to irregular heartbeats.
The
Heart Rate app is also getting some high-tech updates to help users
better monitor their health. The monitor will now track resting heart
rate by taking background heart rate readings throughout the day, and
recovery heart rate, or how long it takes your heart rate to return to
rest after exercise. There will also be a new feature that notifies you
when the monitor detects an elevated heart rate but you don’t appear to
be exercising.
Apple is also taking
advantage of its heart rate technology (it’s the most-used heart rate
monitor in the world, says Apple COO Jeff Williams) to launch a new
initiative to help detect irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmias. Atrial
fibrillation is the most common type of arrhythmia, and is one of the
leading risk factors for stroke, according to the National Stroke
Association. But often, it's asymptomatic, making it hard for people to
know if they have it. Initial studies show the Apple Watch heart rate
monitor has been effective in finding irregular heart rhythms, Williams
says, so Apple is partnering with Stanford Medicine to launch Apple
Heart Study and explore how the watch can help monitor heart conditions
in users. The study will use data from the watch to analyze heartbeat
and notify users of irregular activity.
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