Apple Watch Series 8 Might Have Long-Awaited Body Temperature Tracking Feature

One of essentially the most nerve-wracking components of trying to conceive or determining if you happen to’re sick is monitoring your physique temperature. The subsequent Apple Watch may assist with this annoying, repetitive, and emotionally laborious job.

According to a mixture of rumors and leaky trade analysts, Apple has been working onerous on tuning the algorithms in its subsequent smartwatch particularly for dealing with physique temperature monitoring. The tip comes from trusted trade analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who tweeted out that if the algorithms match the invoice, the characteristic might come normal on the subsequent era of Apple’s wearable, the Apple Watch Series 8. This follows a Bloomberg report from final yr that mentioned Apple was “aimed to put a body temperature sensor” monitor within the Series 7 and that it was extra more likely to present up on this yr’s mannequin.

Body temperature monitoring, specifically, has been a fancy characteristic for wearable makers to determine. “The challenge in implementing precise body temperature measurement is that skin temperature quickly varies depending on outside environments,” tweeted Kuo. It’s why Apple and its main rival on the Android facet of issues, Samsung, nonetheless don’t have the flexibility constructed into their respective smartwatches.

It may sound like a niche characteristic, however body temperature monitoring has lengthy been thought-about one of many conventional methods of monitoring fertility, one thing {couples} making an attempt for a child will surely love to have the ability to do with extra ease. That’s as a result of one method to test for ovulation is to reference incremental temperature adjustments. But manually logging them whereas additionally dealing with all the opposite work concerned with having a baby might add to your emotional load, to not point out throw off constant monitoring. Why not have your smartwatch handle all that passively within the background?

Body temperature monitoring can be useful in diagnosing diseases, one thing most of our readers have in all probability gotten very accustomed to over the previous few years.

Other wearable corporations have tried to launch units to assist with fertility monitoring. But nothing beats a mainstream smartwatch, particularly the (solely, to be truthful) one you should buy as a part of Apple’s (walled backyard) ecosystem. Though different wearables work with the iPhone—the Oura Ring, for example, which additionally presents physique temperature monitoring—it’s a lot simpler springing for the one machine that does all of it.

The Apple Watch SE, which purports to be “heavy on features” and “light on price,” can be a possible refresh. The Apple Watch SE 2 might be part of the Series 8 in a big-time reveal at this fall’s anticipated Apple occasion. Bloomberg kicked off the preliminary hypothesis final yr when it reported that Apple was contemplating launching an Apple Watch tuned towards its rugged customers. The casing on the Apple Watch SE 2 might be stronger and extra proof against the weather, the positioning claims.

We’ll know what Apple has in retailer if and when it makes its bulletins later this yr. The excellent news is it feels like extra physique monitoring is coming to smartwatches quickly, that means extra aggregating of beneficial well being information. If Google lastly launches its Pixel Watch, this would be the yr wearables get attention-grabbing once more.