{"id":30488,"date":"2025-09-18T23:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30488\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T23:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:50:08","slug":"apple-watch-series-11-receives-fda-clearance-for-hypertension-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30488\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch Series 11 receives FDA clearance for hypertension alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple’s Awe Dropping event<\/a> started with dramatic health testimonials<\/a> from Apple Watch users, then revealed a key new feature for the new Watch Series 11: hypertension alerts. The function had yet to receive FDA clearance at the time, but that has now been granted, as first reported by Bloomberg<\/a>\u00a0and confirmed by Apple. As a result, it will reportedly be available to users in 150 countries when the Watch 11 and Ultra Watch 3 ship starting on September 19.<\/p>\n

Hypertension alerts can help detect hypertension (high blood pressure), a potentially dangerous condition that affects over a billion people. The feature relies on the Watch’s optical heart sensor, but now uses new machine learning algorithm that also draws from a study involving more than 100,000 participants to look for high blood pressure. It works in the background a month-long period to seek patterns associated with hypertension. Unlike devices that measure your specific blood pressure<\/a>, it only tells users that there may be a danger.<\/p>\n

Last year, Apple received FDA clearance for its over-the-counter Hearing Aid function<\/a> that transforms the second-gen AirPods Pro<\/a> into OTC hearing aids for people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss. Another recently approved feature is sleep apnea detection<\/a>. However, the company is currently facing a lawsuit<\/a> over the Apple Watch’s redesigned blood oxygen monitoring feature.<\/p>\n

Correction, September 15, 2025, 10:27AM ET: This article and its headline originally stated that the Apple Watch received FDA approval for the new hypertension alerts feature. It received FDA clearance, which is a lower level of authorization compared to FDA approval. We apologize for this error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple’s Awe Dropping event started with dramatic health testimonials from Apple Watch users, then revealed a key new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[351,352,525,356,1605,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-30488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-apple-watch","10":"tag-fda","11":"tag-gadgets","12":"tag-hypertension","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}