Overview
- India joins this week’s additions that include the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam, extending availability of Hypertension Notifications.
- Related health features expand as Hearing Test and Hearing Aid reach Bahrain, Costa Rica, and Paraguay, Sleep Apnea notifications arrive in Colombia, and automatic Conversation Boost rolls out across several European markets including the UK and Germany.
- The hypertension feature targets users age 22 or older who are not pregnant and do not have a prior diagnosis, and it requires Apple Watch Series 9 or later or Apple Watch Ultra 2 or later running watchOS 26 with setup in the Health app.
- Apple reports development using data from over 100,000 participants and clinical validation in 2,229 adults, with performance around 41.2% sensitivity and 92.3% specificity.
- If a notification appears, Apple advises seven days of home blood pressure measurements with a cuff and clinician follow-up, and it projects the feature could help uncover more than one million undiagnosed cases in its first year.