Apple Watch 6 could warn you about anxiety and panic attacks

Apple Watch 6 could warn you well-nigh feet and panic attacks

Apple Watch 6 could help your mental health as well as fitness

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The Apple Spotter half-dozen could exist capable of detecting heightened stress levels and panic attacks, rounding out the watch's well-being features to include mental health.

According to leaker Max Weinbach and YouTube channel EverythingApplePro, Apple is working on making its future wearables better at spotting the early signs of stress or panic, using congenital-in sensors.

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While being notified that you lot're on the verge of a panic attack might amplify your feet, the information could help some people prevent their stress from swelling in advance. Substantially, becoming a more than proactive version of the Apple Watch's "breathe" notification that looks to center you lot.

In the collaborative video, Weinbach and EverythingApplePro say the stress detectors will simply be bachelor to users with an Apple tree Spotter 4 or newer, meaning the ECG could exist key to the new features.

The Apple tree Spotter was already useful for guiding breathing and insight on heart rate, just the latest Apple Watch half dozen rumor suggests the visitor is serious about its efforts to incorporate more mental health tools for users.

EverythingApplePro also says the Apple Watch 6 will innovate sleep monitoring. It's expected to accept a amend battery life, letting users wear it overnight rather than charge information technology. This was a rumor for the Apple Lookout 5, besides.

In other words, there's no guarantee these features volition materialize when the Apple Watch 6 debuts alongside the iPhone 12 in the fall. But with a watchOS seven progress update expected sometime effectually WWDC 2020 in June (which is now online), we could see what'south on the horizon for Apple Scout health initiatives.

Kate Kozuch is a senior writer at Tom'south Guide roofing wearables, TVs and everything smart-home related. When she's not in cyborg fashion, yous can observe her on an exercise bike or channeling her inner celebrity chef. She and her robot ground forces volition rule the world one 24-hour interval, but until then, reach her at kate.kozuch@futurenet.com.