How the Apple Watch can save your life

If you watched Apple’s live WWDC 2019 or if you watched their Keynote, you’d of seen the inspirational Apple Watch video.

If not, I’ll explain, Apple had been talking about the amount of emails and comments they receive from their customers, each sharing their own story on how the Apple Watch had changed their lives.

Following on from this, Apple had then broadcasted a video which showed several people telling their story and how the Watch had saved them.

For example, one of the cases involved was an elderly man. He had fallen down quite hard and hit his head, because his Apple Watch had fall detection on, it had registered that he had fallen hard. The watch called the ambulance and telling them his exact location and then called his wife. The man was taken safely to hospital.

Here’s how the Apple Watch can help save your life

ECG, when it comes to smart watches, heart-rate trackers are a must. But the new Apple Watch adds an electrocardiogram sensor that can let you take a 30 second ECG when you press the watch’s digital crown. The watch measures your heart rhythm, and determines whether it’s beating in a normal pattern. All of your readings are stored in the Health app, where you can directly share them with your doctor.

New notifications, using measurements from the new ECG, the watch notifies you if it detects an irregular heart rate (such as atrial fibrillation, or AFib). The feature is intended to warn individuals who are at risk of complications such as stroke or heart failure.

Fall detection. The Series 4 and 5 can detect when you’ve fallen, using a new hardware including an updated acceler-o-meter and gyroscope, which analyses your wrist trajectory and acceleration. After a fall, you’ll get a disposable alert that you can use to call emergency services. If the watch detects that you haven’t moved for a minute after the call, it automatically alerts the emergency services.