Rumor mill: Apple remains to be a couple of months away from launching its next-generation smartphones and smartwatches, however a collection of leaks have already revealed key particulars about them. A brand new report now claims that this 12 months’s Apple Watch (rumored to be referred to as the Apple Watch X) is more likely to embrace a blood strain monitoring instrument.
The information comes from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who has a historical past of precisely predicting upcoming options in Apple units. In keeping with his newest newsletter, the much-rumored function can be a part of the next-gen Apple Watch, however the firm is unlikely to roll it out to older fashions. It is not instantly clear if that is as a result of the function would require specialised {hardware} that may solely be accessible within the new mannequin.
The Apple Watch has lengthy been rumored to incorporate blood strain monitoring, with a number of studies from final 12 months claiming that the function can be accessible within the 2024 Apple Watch. Whereas followers can be completely satisfied to know that it is lastly changing into a actuality this 12 months, Gurman didn’t present any extra particulars about it, so we do not know precisely the way it will work.
Rumors, nevertheless, counsel that the system is not going to present precise blood strain readings however will as an alternative assist customers monitor adjustments of their blood strain ranges over time. That being mentioned, Apple may enhance the function over the following few generations to make it much more helpful as a part of its plans to show its smartwatch right into a complete well being monitoring instrument.
Gurman had earlier urged that the 2024 Apple Watch may bear a serious redesign, together with adjustments to the band-attachment mechanism. In keeping with the report, this 12 months’s Apple Watch will function a magnetic system to connect the straps, as the present slot mechanism takes up a number of area at both finish of the physique. The brand new system is predicted to make the watch thinner and unlock inner area, probably permitting for a much bigger battery.
Not way more is understood concerning the next-gen Apple Watch but, however we’ll seemingly obtain a couple of extra leaks about it within the lead-up to its launch this fall.
