Apple executives on 10 years of the Apple Watch – and where it goes from here

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The other letters began with one which said, ‘Apple Watch helped save my life.’ It said ‘I noticed my heart rate was really high while I was sitting down,’ and it led them to checking their heart rate again and then seeing their doctor. That’s when we started pulling on threads and adding additional sensors and features like irregular rhythm, atrial fibrillation alerts and all the way through to something like sleep apnoea.” Sleep apnoea alerts are the latest addition to the arsenal of health and fitness features on the Watch and are exclusive to this year’s Apple Watch Series 9, last year’s Series 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra 2. And then I got a CPAP machine, and it was like a new lease of life.” Apple says that 80 per cent of people with sleep apnoea don’t know they have it and the hope is that by wearing the Apple Watch at night, many undiagnosed cases will be spotted. So, the device that you wear all the time for all the other things like you’re running a marathon or measuring your steps, if that can also give you a sign of something happening early in your health, that’s really powerful.” open image in gallery Apple takes measurements from your wrist when you’re sleeping, saved in the new Vitals app.