10 Unique Ways the Apple Watch Can Improve Your Health
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Apple has slowly turned the Apple Watch from a regular wearable piece of tech to a health companion over the years. Nowadays, the Apple Watch comes with a lot of different health features that could literally save your life. Or at least, they could help you live a healthier life with not that many changes. Of course, that doesn't mean you should just use your Apple Watch instead of running physical tests or visiting your health provider – but it's nice to know you have a quick and easy way to keep your health in check. What, you don't believe us? Keep reading to learn ten ways your Apple Watch can help you live a healthy life!
It Detects Hard Falls, Calls 911 on Your Behalf
Your Apple Watch is the perfect companion for your everyday life, and the Fall Detection feature is one of the reasons why. With Fall Detection, your Apple Watch will automatically detect whenever you fall down. Your Apple Watch will ask you if everything's okay, and if you don't answer in a few seconds, your Apple Watch will immediately call for help!
Fall Detection works so well; there have been a lot of people who claim their Apple Watch saved their lives just by calling for help when they couldn't. Whether you're a very active person or someone who likes being careful when an accident happens, your Apple Watch's Fall Detection feature is amazing to have turned on. Here's how.
Tracks Your Menstrual Cycle
Some of us don't completely understand it, but tracking your menstrual cycle can be life-changing (or so I've heard). An Apple Watch can help you track everything by just using a bit of your data. Not only will this will help you keep a better track of your monthly cycles, but it'll also help you understand how healthy you really are. Plus, it can help you prevent diseases. Here's how.
Keeps You Calm in Stressful Situations
What's cool about the Apple Watch is that it won't just alert you after an emergency; it'll also help you prevent one by helping calm yourself.
Your Apple Watch has an app called Mindfulness—previously known as the Breathe app—that can help you take some time of your day to focus on yourself. You can practice mindful or breathing exercises for as little as one minute per day and keep track of all your weekly sessions. Keep yourself calm with help have a better mental state throughout your day, which might eventually prevent any physical diseases.
Protect Your Aural Health
We don't really think about it in our everyday lives, but our hearing is really affected by all the noises we can hear when we're outside.
Whether you're working in construction or like to go to parties, your ears might be suffering from loud noises without you even knowing about it.
Fortunately, you can always count on your Apple Watch. Your Watch has an app called Noise, which actively measures the environmental sounds and makes sure that you aren't near any sound that might harm your hearing.
If you spend too much time near loud sounds, your Apple Watch will notify you that you should move to a quieter area or you might cause hearing damage.
Track Your Sleep
A lot of us don't understand how important sleep really is. Not only the lack of sleep might cause more serious diseases in the future, like heart disease, but sleeping feels so darn good.
Long gone are the days you couldn't track your sleep by yourself. Now, all you need to do is sleep with your Apple Watch, and it'll help you keep track of how many hours you slept and how good your sleep actually was.
Moreover, thanks to a few software updates, you can use your Apple Watch and your iPhone to help you wind down before you go to bed. That way, you'll fall asleep faster and have a better sleep.
Wash Your Hands the Right Way
If there's something the last couple of years has taught us, it's that we need to wash our hands.
It's recommended that you wash your hands for at least 20 seconds to actually get rid of all of the germs and avoid catching a disease. But in such a busy world, it's hard to keep track of the twenty seconds every time.
And that's when your Apple Watch comes in. Your Apple Watch now has a feature that'll automatically recognize when you're washing your hands and start a timer. You'll feel a haptic response on your wrist when you finish washing your hands for 20 seconds.
Keep Track of Your Heart Rate
Remember when this feature was such a novelty in a smartwatch? Now pretty much every smartwatch can help you track your heart rate, but the Apple Watch is still one of the best.
Your Apple Watch will track your heart rate automatically or when you want it to. What's more, your Apple Watch can also detect if your heart rate starts to go up or down in a very unexpected way, and it'll notify you. A lot of people said that this feature had saved their lives in moments when they didn't even know they had heart problems.
Measure the Oxygen in Your Blood
Granted, not every Apple Watch has this feature available, but the more modern models can measure and track your blood oxygen levels with a simple scan.
Your Apple Watch uses the light on its back to light your blood vessels. Based on the amount of light that bounces back, your Apple Watch can determine the oxygen level in your blood. It's a pretty cool feature and works more accurately than people might think. Unfortunately, this feature is only available in the Apple Watch Series 6 and later models.
An ECG on Your Wrist
Ever since the Apple Watch 4, the Apple Watch has come with an integrated ECG that helps you track any abnormal heart rhythm you might have.
An ECG, or Electrocardiogram, is a fast and easy test doctors use to evaluate the heart. If you place your finger on the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch, your Apple Watch will measure your heart's electrical activity.
Even though not a lot of people like this Apple Watch feature that much, it's still a useful tool that can help you measure abnormal heart rates and detect atrial fibrillation, which is an irregular and often fast heart rate.
Track Your Workouts and Physical Activity
Before Apple Fitness+, your Apple Watch could already track all your workouts with the Workout app.
Workout lets you start different workouts with your Apple Watch and track how well you're doing. You can track how much time you work out and even your heart rate during every workout you do. All your activity will be automatically stored in your Activity Ring, so you can track and gamify your fitness.
And if you want to take it one step further, you can use Apple Fitness+ and try one of the many curated workouts Apple has available on the platform.
