Apple is releasing sleep apnea detection support for Apple Watch users using watchOS 11.1. But that’s not the only health feature the company has been working on over the past year. According to bloombergThe company tested a blood sugar app to help pre-diabetics manage their food intake and make lifestyle changes, according to Mark Garman of .
This top-secret project targeted selected employees who were diagnosed with pre-diabetes earlier this year. Apple has no plans to release the app to the public, but it hopes to integrate the technology into future health products, such as the non-invasive glucose tracker it has been developing for more than a decade.
The journalist said the idea of the app was to “show consumers how certain foods affect blood sugar levels.” Ultimately, the goal of the study was to “explore potential uses for blood glucose data and what tools the company could potentially create for consumers.”
Garman said Apple has paused testing of the program as it focuses on other health features.
In a previous report, journalists said it would still be many years before blood sugar sensors are available. At the time, he explained that Apple may use shortwave infrared absorption spectroscopy in the blood sugar sensor in future Apple Watches.
“The technique involves shining a laser through the skin into the interstitial fluid between blood vessels and the cells in which they function. The researchers used the intensity of the light’s reflection to “We discovered that we could calculate the glucose concentration in the bloodstream. And all that had to penetrate into the body was light,” the publication says. I will explain.
But Apple still struggles to get all the data it needs, as the non-invasive system must see through a wide range of skin tones and analyze different blood types. The company plans to use AI to sift through raw data and predict when a person will develop diabetes.
However, as this new report confirms, Apple may launch a feature that monitors trends in a person’s blood sugar levels and alerts users to prediabetes before a full blood sugar sensor.
BGR We’ll let you know as soon as we learn more about future Apple Watch features.
