According to the latest report, Apple
is working on sleep tracking for its new Apple Watch series that is going to be
unveiled in the next week. Apple’s Special Event is going to be held on
September 10 and it will be live from Steve Jobs Theater. This newly revealed
feature may be announced in the event next week in Apple Watch Series 5 which
will be getting revised Titanium and Ceramic body. Apple’s 2019 iPhones – iPhone
11 modes will be the headliners of this event.
The new sleep tracking feature for
the Apple Watch will be called “Time in Bed Tracking”. It is said to track the
quality of sleep, heart rate, noises, and all other movements done while
sleeping. Just like every Apple Watch Series, this feature will be available in
the Health App and a new Sleep App for the watch (watchOS
6 has brought a standalone App Store for Apple Watch).
This sleep tracking feature will
require enough battery and to track the sleep a user need to wear the device
while sleeping. Users might find it little inconvenient as most of them charge
the device during the night. So users will be notified to charge their device a
few hours before going to bed. If users happen to have a secondary Apple Watch
then they can use any one of them to be their sleeping tracker.
It is also being said that Apple is
altering the ways of how the alarm works in the Apple Watch. If the user wakes
up and starts the day before preset alarm triggered then it will be silenced
automatically. Usually, the alarm will play only on the Watch by keeping the
iPhone as a backup. User can also use an alternate option of the alarm where
Apple Watch only vibrates when the alarm goes off. The sleep tracking function
will disable all the notification when the user goes to sleep. It will enable
Do Not Disturb.
It is still not confirmed whether
this new feature will need some hardware support and will run on the new
upgrade of the Apple Watch Series to be announced on September 10 or will be
available with watchOS without requiring hardware support. But from the various
rumors about Apple
watch series 5, we have seen that there aren’t much hardware changes in it
so probably this feature won’t require hardware support.
The Apple’s September event will
introduce new generation iPhone 11 models which are likely to have triple-lens
camera setup at the back. Along with this, we are also expecting iPad Pro, iPad
10.2, MacBook in this event if Apple isn’t planning a second event in the fall.
Apple’s two new major services Apple Arcade and Apple TV+ are slated to release
in the fall, so we may get some more details about them in the event. All the
software updates of Apple Products are scheduled for somewhere in the fall and
with the launch of iPhone 11, we may get the final release date of iOS 13
and iPadOS.