Bloomberg has published a report (paywall) regarding the Apple Watch and some of the features that the Cupertino-based company is working on for its wearable.

Many of the features are health focused, with Apple looking to add more functionality in terms of monitoring a wearer’s wellbeing.

To that end, the firm is reportedly working on improvements to sleep tracking, a tool that helps keep track of medication, as well as body temperature sensing and an expansion of its fertility tracking.

One element that is also in the works, but might still take some time to arrive on the Apple Watch, is blood pressure monitoring. This is because Apple and its researchers are still not satisfied with the accuracy of the monitoring, which given an important aspect of the body like blood pressure, needs to be near perfect if the company intends to roll it out.

As such, we could only see this feature port to the Apple Watch ecosystem in 2024 or 2025.

Right now, many wearables can let you know if your blood pressure is rising or falling, but an accurate measure of it still remains tricky to pin down precisely.

As The Verge points out, it would be quite the feather in the cap for Apple if it were to get this feature down pat, especially as few have had success with it to date.

It would likely open up the Apple Watch to a larger swathe of customers, much like blood oxygen level monitoring has done for Huawei with its smartwatches and fitness-focused customers.

Whether we will see blood pressure monitoring on a wholly new smartwatch from Apple, along with being rolled out to older models, remains to be seen.

[Source – Bloomberg]