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How to use Apple's new wrist flick gesture to dismiss notifications

The concept behind wrist flick is simple. Rather than having to swipe away incoming notifications on your Apple Watch when ...

Apple Watch can now detect high blood pressure: How Hypertension Notifications works, steps to activate and more important information

Apple Watch's Hypertension Notifications feature monitors heart rate data over 30 days to detect potential high blood pressure. It alerts users to possible hypertension, encouraging them to consult ...

Apple Explains How Hypertension Alerts Work on Apple Watch

With watchOS 26, the Apple Watch Series 9 and later and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later support Hypertension Notifications to give Apple ...
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Apple's High Blood Pressure Alerts: When and Where They'll Be Available

This is everything you need to know about Apple's new hypertension notifications and if they'll be available on your Apple ...

Apple Watch Adds Blood Pressure Alerts. Here’s How It Works

Alongside the Watch Series 11, Apple has announced high blood pressure alerts, a potentially life-saving feature coming to new and older Apple Watches.
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Your Older Apple Watch Might Get Some of the Series 11's Best New Features

Apple didn’t specify availability during its launch event, but its new sleep monitoring tech and hypertension notifications ...
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The Apple Watch 11 Finally Gets the High Blood Pressure Alerts I Wanted for Years

Commentary: It's more of a precaution alert, but it's a start. And other current and past Apple Watches are getting the ...

Apple Watch hypertension alerts feature receives FDA clearance

In testing, the feature reached 95.3% specificity in the Normal category, meaning many people flagged without full hypertension still showed elevated readings. Apple says this helps raise awareness ...