Earlier today, reports surfaced that Apple plans to include blood sugar measurements as a flagship feature of the Apple Watch Series 7. This year, Apple Watch could gain the ability to measure an incredibly important health measure for millions of people. With the measurement of blood sugar, diabetics can use their watch to stay healthy without fingertips. This of course depends on the clock measurements being accurate. Apple would not ship a feature like this if it were not accurate.
So far, Apple has regularly introduced new health programs. With the Apple Watch Series 4, we built the ECG sensor into the Digital Crown. With Apple Watch Series 6, we got the blood oxygen sensor. It would not be at all surprising if Apple Watch Series 7 includes the ability to measure blood sugar. It is possible that previous and existing Apple Watch models were able to measure blood sugar, as previous Apple Watches were technically able to measure blood oxygen, although Apple reserved this as a Series 6 feature.
Design
Each Apple Watch health app has received a consistent, high-quality visualization. The ECG app displays a beautiful particle heart that transforms into a waveform. The Blood Oxygen app contains a flurry of blue and red lines to indicate oxygen in the blood.
A blood sugar app can display floating red and white spheres representing your blood cells. They can flow slowly horizontally along the screen. The general layout of the app would follow the same conventions as the ECG and Blood Oxygen programs with a simple custom button below the visualization.
Measurements
Like the Blood Oxygen app, a modal will appear at the end of your measurement session. It will display your current estimated blood sugar level and offer you options to see a detailed graph and share your reading with a family member or doctor.
You can change the bar graph to a dotted view or even a list to simplify things. The key is to offer different viewing options so that people of all ages with diabetes can read their chart on their watch.
Notice
Apple will surely use it as an opportunity to introduce blood sugar notifications. Since the sensors of the watch are active during the day, the watch can alert you if your blood sugar is too high or too low. It can also offer recommendations to lower or increase your blood sugar level.
We’ll just have to wait and see if Apple chooses to launch this feature later this year with the Apple Watch Series 7. But one thing is clear, it makes a lot of sense. This is a natural extension of Apple Watch’s current range of health statistics.
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