Vitals App on Apple Watch Can Predict Sickness: Here’s How to Use It
Oct. 21, 2024Withthe latest watchOS 11, Apple now offers an all-new Vitals app that lets you check your daily health status. It’s a useful app that collects your health and sleep data and shows you all the key metrics in one convenient location. So, you no longer have to keep tabs on various apps as Apple has streamlined everything with this unified Vitals app. It feels much like the Health app on the iPhone that gives you a snapshot of key wellness metrics in one place. Interestingly, the Vitals app canshow signs of sickness before you actually feel any symptoms.Impressive, right? Keep reading to learn how to use the Vitals app on your Apple Watch.
Prerequisites to Use Vitals App on Apple Watch
Before you start, you should know the prerequisites for using the Vitals app on your Apple Watch. Here’s what you need:
It’s super easy to use the Vitals app in watchOS 11. The app will provide a complete breakdown of your heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, wrist temperature, and sleep duration. Here are the step-by-step instructions to navigate the Vitals app:
That’s how you can use the new Vitals app. While each metric is available in separate apps, the Vitals app unifies everything so you can view all your key wellness metrics in one place. Also, the app shows these metrics in a handy graph along with actionable advice to bring your vitals back to the normal range.
You can also view these vitals on your iPhone. For this, open theHealth app, tap onBrowse -> Vitals>Vitals,to see your vitals over a period of time.
Vitals is a unifiedwatchOS appthat helps you understand your health and sleep quality. While you’re asleep, the app measures your key health metrics like heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, wrist temperature, and sleep duration. When you wear your smartwatch at night with Sleep Tracking enabled, the app records these health metrics and establishes a baseline for your vitals (called Typical).
Once your averages are locked down, the app will show you a morning report on your vitals from the previous night’s sleep. Your key health metrics are classified as “Typical” or an “Outlier.” If two or more metrics fall out of the typical range, the app will send you notifications in the morning. It will also indicate possible factors like illness, medications, or alcohol consumption, which may have caused the outliers. What’s even more incredible is the fact that the Vitals app examines your health metrics so closely that it can detect in advance that you’re about to fall sick. So you can start taking precautions to limit the sickness or even prevent it in some cases.
It’s worth knowing that individual outliers won’t necessarily result in a health alert. However, if multiple vitals flag up for multiple nights, the app will send you an alert with possible factors involved.
That’s all about the new Vitals app on Apple Watch. Have you installed the latest watchOS 11? How’s your experience so far? Tell us in the comments below.
