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Gurman: Apple continuing development on health features for AirPods - 9to5Mac

By Michael Burkhardt

Gurman: Apple continuing development on health features for AirPods - 9to5Mac

In the latest edition of the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman laid out a couple updates on Apple's developments on health features for AirPods. We've heard reports on this matter in the past, but this provides a little more insight.

According to the newsletter, Apple is working on a wide variety of health features, including a heart-rate monitor, a temperature sensor, and new sensors that'll track "a slew of physiological measures." Apple's primarily focused on developing the heart rate sensor at the moment.

In internal testing, Apple is noticing more accurate heart-rate info off of the Apple Watch, but Gurman reports that AirPods aren't too far off. We don't have details on the other health features, nor a precise timeline, though Gurman says we'll see it roll out "over the coming years."

Apple is also working on cameras for AirPods. This project was previously cancelled, but got revived with Apple's sudden interest in developing products for the era of AI. Gurman notes that this is a priority project for both AI teams and AirPods teams, but it's still a couple years away:

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