Apple’s newest health-tracking features are coming to older watches

Apple conscionable announced a clump of caller wellness tracking features alongside its caller smartwatch lineup — but you mightiness not request to upgrade your instrumentality to get entree to them. With the motorboat of watchOS 26 adjacent week, Apple volition bring hypertension notifications, unrecorded translation, and the new wrist flick gesture to the Watch Series 9 and newer, on with the last-gen Watch Ultra 2.

Apple’s caller hypertension notifications usage information from the watches’ existing optical bosom sensor to “analyze however a user’s humor vessels respond to the beats of the heart.” An algorithm volition past reappraisal this information implicit a play of 30 days and volition notify users if it detects signs of precocious humor pressure. Apple says it expects clearance from the FDA and different regulators this month. It volition rotation retired successful much than 150 countries and regions.

Additionally, Apple’s upcoming Sleep Score diagnostic is coming to a wider enactment of watches beyond the caller Watch Series 11. Next week, it volition rotation retired to the Watch Series 6 and later, successful summation to each Watch Ultra models and the 2nd-gen Watch SE and later. This diagnostic uses your bosom rate, wrist temperature, humor oxygen, and respiratory information to complaint the prime of your slumber erstwhile utilized with an iPhone 11 oregon later.

These features volition get with watchOS 26 connected September 15th.