Apple Watch Series 6 will present a blood oxygen monitoring sensor

The Apple Watch Series 6 will add blood oxygen monitoring to its feature list when it launches later this year, according to a new report from DigiTimes.

‌Apple Watch‌ 6 will feature biosensors that can monitor sleeping conditions, detect oxygen in the blood and measure pulse rates, heartbeat and atrial fibrillation, and will also incorporate a MEMS-based accelerometer and gyroscope, allowing the new device to continue to lead the measurement accuracy among portable devices, they said. the sources.

Sources at the Taiwan-based website say next-generation nextApple Watch‌ has undergone “smooth development” thanks to close collaboration between Apple and Taiwanese company ASE Technology, which has garnered significant back-end orders for the device. .

The leaked code found in iOS 14 has previously suggested that Apple is working on an “Apple Watch” that can detect oxygen levels in the blood.

Under the discovered code, Apple will provide notifications when blood oxygen levels drop below a healthy threshold, which is around 95 to 100 percent saturation. A drop in the level of oxygen in the blood may suggest a serious heart or respiratory problem.

The code was unclear whether the feature would be limited to new ‌Apple Watch‌ Series 6 devices or whether it would come as a software update on watchOS 7, but today’s report suggests that it may be exclusive to Series 6.

When the original ‌‌‌Apple Watch‌‌‌ was released in 2015, iFixit discovered that Apple’s heart sensors have the ability to monitor blood oxygen levels, but Apple never activated it.

Other smartwatch and fitness tracker manufacturers, including Google-owned Fitbit, already offer blood oxygen monitoring features on some of their wearable devices, so Apple is catching up in the area, but that It could mean that the company has a more advanced implementation of the function on the job.

In development for a fall launch, Apple Watch 6-series models are rumored to offer faster performance, better water resistance, and better wireless transmission for faster Wi-Fi and cellular speeds.

According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, these improvements will be made in part through a rumored exchange of liquid crystal polymer or LCP material for the flexible circuit boards expected to be included in series 6 of “Apple Watch. “