Earlier today, reports emerged that Apple plans to include blood sugar measurements as a flagship feature of this year’s Apple Watch Series 7. Later this year, Apple Watch will be able to measure an incredibly important health metric for millions of people. With blood sugar measurements, diabetics can use their watch to stay healthy without finger bites. This, of course, depends on the accuracy of the watch’s measurements. Apple wouldn’t launch a feature like this if it wasn’t needed.
So far, Apple has introduced new health apps regularly. With the Apple Watch Series 4, we have the ECG sensor integrated into the digital crown. With the Apple Watch Series 6, we have the blood oxygen sensor. It would come as no surprise if the Apple Watch Series 7 included blood sugar measurement capabilities. It is possible that previous and existing Apple Watch models are able to measure blood sugar as previous Apple Watches were technically capable of measuring blood oxygen, although Apple reserved it as a Series 6 feature.
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Each Apple Watch health app got a corresponding high-quality view. The ECG app displays a beautiful particle heart that turns into a waveform. The Blood Oxygen app displays a series of blue and red lines to denote oxygen in the blood.
A blood sugar app can display floating red and white orbs that represent your blood cells. They can slowly flow horizontally across the screen. The general layout of the app would follow the same conventions as the ECG and Oxygen in Blood apps with a simple measurement button below the view.
Measures
Like the Blood Oxygen app, a modal would appear at the end of your measurement session. It would display your current estimated blood sugar level and provide options for viewing a detailed graph and sharing your reading with a family member or doctor.
You can change the bar graph to a plotted display or even a list to simplify things. The secret is to offer different viewing options so that people of all ages with diabetes can read the chart on their watch.
Notifications
Apple would certainly use this as an opportunity to file blood sugar notifications. Because the watch’s sensors are active throughout the day, the watch can alert you if your blood sugar is too high or too low. It can also offer recommendations for lowering or increasing blood sugar.
We’ll just have to wait and see if Apple chooses to introduce this feature with the Apple Watch Series 7 later this year. But one thing is certain, it makes a lot of sense. It is a natural extension of the current Apple Watch health metrics suite.
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