Apple Expands Apple Watch Hypertension Alerts to Australia, Brazil, South Korea and More
The feature analyzes 30 days of sensor data to flag likely hypertension, prompting clinician-guided checks.
Overview
- Apple activated hypertension notifications for Apple Watch in Australia, Malaysia, Colombia, Indonesia, South Korea, Brazil, and Turkey on January 27.
- Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration granted approval, enabling the local rollout via a software update.
- The capability is limited to Apple Watch Series 9 or later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 or later.
- Users in supported countries can enable notifications through the Health app on iPhone.
- The system reviews about 30 days of watch sensor data to infer regularly elevated blood pressure, does not take a blood pressure measurement, and then prompts medical follow-up with optional manual cuff logs in Apple Health.