Sleep apnea is a dysfunction that causes individuals to out of the blue cease respiratory throughout sleep. The brand new characteristic, which is rolling out as a part of the watchOS 11 replace, will use the Apple Watch’s accelerometer to detect small wrist actions linked with respiratory disturbances throughout sleep. Apple will then use this info to alert customers of attainable reasonable to extreme sleep apnea.
Yow will discover and monitor the brand new “respiratory disturbances” metric within the Well being app, the place you can too obtain information to share it with a health care provider. Apple says its sleep apnea notification algorithm was developed with “superior machine studying and an in depth information set of clinical-grade sleep apnea exams.”
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