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Apple Watch 'Many Years Away' From Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring
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People have no idea how difficult a non-invasive way to monitor blood glucose, in an Apple Watch, will be to achieve. This would be the most incredible engineering of all Apple’s history and expecting it within the next 5 years is nuts.
Also, this is not about diabetes. Blood glucose monitoring is important to people in athletics and who want to monitor the best time to eat.
Also, this is not about diabetes. Blood glucose monitoring is important to people in athletics and who want to monitor the best time to eat.
This will be great but passive blood pressure monitoring is truly the holy grail. It’s estimated 100M people have high BP without even knowing it. It’s why it’s called the “silent killer”. That’s not even to count the people with low BP that don’t know it either. Glucose monitoring will be great for diabetics and pre-diabetics but will be fairly useless for the majority of people.
I do DOT physicals for CDL drivers and I can’t tell you how many people, young and old, tell me they don’t have high BP and immediately test for high BP. When I first started doing this it absolutely blew me away.
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Come on Apple, I need this.
If you can't make it work on a watch I am willing to accept another wearable -- a ring, a necklace, a bracelet, an ankle monitor, hell I'd even consider an earring.
If you can't make it work on a watch I am willing to accept another wearable -- a ring, a necklace, a bracelet, an ankle monitor, hell I'd even consider an earring.
Siri is way beyond diabetes, deep into dementia.
Thanks. If I get worst then I'll definitely be asking for those skin sensors so I don't have to prick my finger all the time.
The cheep Chinese watches have glucose monitoring. Not accurate at all (clinical, ha ha ha) but seem to be to work well enough to do trending at least on me.
-It really would be nice for apple to get Temp, Pulse Ox and BP integrated into the watch.
-It would be nice if Apple Health would be added to the Mac
-It would be nice if Apple would work with the various AIs (openAI, Grok, Gemini, ...) to allow them to interact with your apple health for secure access to your data to get opinions on your health. Let Apple Health be a/the repository of all your health data.
-It really would be nice for apple to get Temp, Pulse Ox and BP integrated into the watch.
-It would be nice if Apple Health would be added to the Mac
-It would be nice if Apple would work with the various AIs (openAI, Grok, Gemini, ...) to allow them to interact with your apple health for secure access to your data to get opinions on your health. Let Apple Health be a/the repository of all your health data.
At least we are starting to get honest and real about where Apple is actually at on some things.
Stop with pie in the sky stuff
Their streak of continually underwhelming is very bad optics.
Stop with pie in the sky stuff
Their streak of continually underwhelming is very bad optics.
I've been type 1 diabetic for over 25 years, and this would be a game changer for diabetics. I've recently gotten a Dexcom G7 and I love it, but it's still a thing I need to change every 10 days, and it requires bluetooth to use on the iPhone/Watch, so having it be built into the watch would help with battery life and simplicity, I'm sure too.
Maybe if Apple spent less time on pushing this A.I. we don't want in our face...they could get to work!
It only took NASA 8 years to land a man on the moon and get him back home safe. That was in a glorified washing machine with rockets strapped to it and computer less powerful then a modern calculator.
Come on Apple, after 15 years, you should have this already.
It only took NASA 8 years to land a man on the moon and get him back home safe. That was in a glorified washing machine with rockets strapped to it and computer less powerful then a modern calculator.
Come on Apple, after 15 years, you should have this already.
It isn’t. It would be a world break through, it would be such a break through that Apple would be awarded with several awards. Of course that’s the reason it is so hard and would be kind blowing for Apple to pull it off instead of a health company. If they mean it they can because they have the money for the research, but I believe their current leadership doesn’t have what it takes to push boundaries anymore.
As as Type 1 I use a FreeStyle Libre which is a game changer over the old finger stick method. If Apple could do this without something sticking into your skin that would be awesome. Another issue is battery life which is why the Libre expires after 14 days and gets replaced by a new one. For this to work with a watch you would need amazing battery life and super fast charging. Part of the problem for us Type 1 is "good enough" isn't - you need near medical grade, dependable, accurate results 24/7. Getting this data from just your skin has proven (so far) to be impossible.
He makes up everything he reports, not sure how people haven't figured that out yet.
If they were at the proof of concept stage then that means that they are very close. Engineers just need to make it small enough to be on a watch ⌚️ and of course they would have to wait for government federal approval and to rigorously trial test for a couple of years.
Apple 🍎 wants to get all the credit and doesn’t want to collab with anyone except in house Apple engineers 👨💻
Tim Cook will have retired by then. I’m thinking our household is many years away from buying Apple devices again after the iPhone 16 mess up and removal of O2 from Apple Watch in the US.
Apple has lost respect from us as consumers
Apple has lost respect from us as consumers
Even if they do get it working, it will not sync with other devices, will fail when used with iCould or delete all your data, or duplicate your data like the calendar app does.
So Cook will get his Keynote announcement, but it will take 1.5 years to get working correctly on device and another iCould rewrite to get it working in the cloud. Why? Because Cook does not understand how software rots when you don't maintain it.
So Cook will get his Keynote announcement, but it will take 1.5 years to get working correctly on device and another iCould rewrite to get it working in the cloud. Why? Because Cook does not understand how software rots when you don't maintain it.
Meanwhile, some Huawei will probably provide a function like the D2 measuring blood pressure in two years. And Apple will continue to talk nonsense that it is not as accurate as they would like it to be and is not a medical measurement. Okay, let it not be a medical measurement, let it be wrong even by 10%, it will still be an incredible progress and convenience.
I thought we were 1-2 years away from this, because we've had rumors about this since like 2018.
I can't wait for the first company that puts a non invasive glucose monitor that works on the market. This will be HUGE, especially if it's in a smart watch.
I can't wait for the first company that puts a non invasive glucose monitor that works on the market. This will be HUGE, especially if it's in a smart watch.
Or is it? 🤔
Isn't this what you'd want competitors to think? It's unlikely Mark Gurman can tell when Apple are seeding disinformation.