{"id":897017,"date":"2026-10-28T02:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897017\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T02:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:06:12","slug":"apple-releases-two-new-real-life-apple-watch-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897017\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases two new real-life Apple Watch stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/apple-watch-series-12-heart-health-sensing.webp\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple\u2019s YouTube channel shared two new videos today from its \u201cTrue Apple Watch Story\u201d series, highlighting how the device helped save one woman\u2019s life and transform another person\u2019s fitness journey. Watch them below.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan\u2019s close call and Josh\u2019s fitness journey<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Apple has long promoted the Apple Watch as a health and fitness device, the company has been increasingly turning to real-life stories to illustrate how its features can make a difference in people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What started as rather light-hearted \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/09\/09\/apple-publishes-dear-apple-segment-from-todays-event\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dear Apple<\/a>\u201d event segments featuring people thanking Tim Cook and the company for the Apple Watch has evolved into dedicated campaigns highlighting real-life experiences, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/04\/29\/apple-china-highlights-apple-watch-health-and-rescue-stories-in-campaign-with-podcast-tie-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent campaign in China<\/a> focused on the device\u2019s health and safety features.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Apple published two new videos. The first features Josh, a user who weighed about 340 pounds before turning to the Apple Watch\u2019s Activity Rings to help improve his fitness.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second features Morgan, who credits the device\u2019s high heart rate notifications with helping save her life after doctors diagnosed her with a kidney infection that had progressed to septic shock.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s videos join other True Apple Watch Story videos, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mHTFRasvCR8&amp;pp=ygUYIlRydWUgQXBwbGUgV2F0Y2ggU3Rvcnki\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor\u2019s Heart Health Emergency<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TVpTonS1QVw&amp;pp=ygUYIlRydWUgQXBwbGUgV2F0Y2ggU3Rvcnki\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda\u2019s Rare Cancer Diagnosis<\/a>, and you can watch them all on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Apple\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also read about my own run-in with the Apple Watch\u2019s atrial fibrillation alert <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/05\/12\/apple-watch-atrial-fibrilation-alert\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Worth checking out on Amazon<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5mac.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793153171_218_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793153172_897_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s YouTube channel shared two new videos today from its \u201cTrue Apple Watch Story\u201d series, highlighting how the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[166,74],"class_list":["post-897017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-gadgets","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}