Comment by coldpie
Yeah I'm generally a tech skeptic, but getting FDA approval for a real, common problem is a fantastic use for this kind of device. I did an at-home sleep study a few months ago, and while it wasn't an unpleasant experience, it did involve a long wait for an appointment, two trips to & from a specialty clinic, and awkwardly strapping on this device to sleep with overnight. That's a lot of barriers. Being able to do get a useful result for a very impactful health condition, just with an affordable piece of hardware that many people already have is a game changer.
Great job to the team at Apple for getting this together & getting real approval for it.
This won’t tell you that you have sleep apnea, it will tell you you might. From there you’d probably need a real sleep study.
However how many people will this catch that had no idea they should get checked? Not unlike some of the people who found out they have afib after their watches suggested they get checked? I agree this is great.
It’d be interesting if we find out that a very different percentage of the population have sleep apnea than we thought simply because so many more get checked as a result of this.