Apple unveils Apple Watch Series 6, new blood oxygen tracking features By CNBC Television

Apple Watch has made a profound impact on so many of our customers lives, and we continue to be inspired, and this year, watchOS 7 adds several important health features that take advantage of the powerful technology in Apple Watch. The new sleep app uses the motion sensors to track your sleep automatic hand, washing detection, recognizes the motion and sound when washing your hands and encourages you to continue for the recommended 20 seconds and watch OS.7 now uses your motion and heart rate to measure a lower range of vo2 max values. Now the American heart association recommends routinely assessing cardio fitness levels and vo2 max is the most accurate way to capture this. The problem is: it's usually only measured in specialty clinics, but watch OS 7 can now measure a full range of vo2 max, which is a powerful predictor of your overall health and coming later this year you can receive a notification if your vo2 max drops to those lower levels. Each year Apple Watch raises the bar adding new features and technology that improve our lives. This year, Apple Watch takes another big leap forward, and I'm excited to show it to you now.

This is the new Apple Watch Series 6, the perfect combination of powerful features and beautiful design. Series 6 is our most colorful lineup ever there's a new blue aluminum case. This updated classic gold, stainless steel finish a new gray, black stainless steel called graphite and for the first time, a stunning new Apple Watch product red now on the inside series.6 is packed with incredible technology, including a new health sensor that enables an amazing new capability. Let's take a look with Apple Watch Series: 6. You can measure your blood oxygen right from your wrist.

The new health sensor in series 6 shines red and infrared light onto your wrist and measures. The amount of light reflected back advanced algorithms use this data to calculate the color of your blood, which indicates the amount of oxygen present, the new blood oxygen app lets. You take a measurement in just 15 seconds and series 6 also captures periodic background readings and stores them in your health FAFSA. So if you wear your Apple Watch to bed, it can record background measurements, while you sleep I'll hand it over to samba, to talk more about blood oxygen and its importance to your health oxygen saturation, also known as sbo2, is like a vital sign. It's a key measurement that contains critical information about your breathing and circulation.

Apple Watch is already a powerful health tool with apps that measure heart rate and heart rhythm and now adding blood oxygen brings another valuable health measurement to users. Blood oxygen and pulse oximetry are terms that we've heard a lot about during the COVID-19 pandemic. As you breathe your heart and lungs work together to deliver oxygen throughout your body, blood oxygen saturation is an indication of how well this system is functioning and of your overall respiratory and cardiac health and pulse oximetry is how you measure it. Now the blood oxygen app on series 6 lets, you measure your blood oxygen for fitness and wellness purposes from your wrist anywhere and at any time. This is a great new tool for your overall well-being and to enable future medical discoveries.

We're launching three new health research studies to learn how longitudinal blood oxygen measurements, along with other health metrics from Apple Watch, can help manage conditions that affect the heart and lungs first to study how to better, manage and control asthma using physiological signals from Apple Watch. We're collaborating with the pulmonary experts at the University of California, Irvine and anthem. Second, to learn more about how metrics, including blood oxygen, can be used to manage heart failure. We're partnering with one of the largest research organizations in North America, the university health network and the investigators at the university of Toronto and finally, as we all continue to learn more about Ovid and understand the interplay with influenza, we're partnering with the investigators of the Seattle flu study and faculty from the University of Washington school of medicine, we will explore how changes in blood oxygen and heart rate can be early signals of the onset of these respiratory conditions. So that's the new blood oxygen feature we're so excited to bring this important new health capability to our users.

Now, back to Jeff, to tell you more about the new Apple Watch Series 6. , whether you're measuring blood oxygen, making a phone call on your watch or simply checking your activity rings. It's all made possible by Apple Silicon inside series. Six is our sixth generation system in package. It's a purpose-built design, that's absolutely unique! In the industry.

It includes a high-performance dual-core processor based on the a13 bionic and iPhone 11, but optimized for Apple Watch. The s6 is up to 20 faster than the previous generation series.6 also has great new features that are perfect for when you're out and about you.

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