Oxygen level and low heart beat Apple Watch

It’s not a medically approved device for either of those two measurements. If you have a condition that medically requires the monitoring of your O2 and heart rate please consult your physician to determine the appropriate equipment for the monitoring.

These become less of a choice issue and more of a legal liability issue. Apple doesn’t want the risk. What you’re asking for is a medically approved device. That’s why hospital pay big dollars for monitoring equipment. Apple Watch is the wrong tool for the job. You are wanting the watch to >warn you of a health risk< and the device is not medically certified to do that. Watches can’t be permitted to do things they aren’t certified to do.

Setting up low (and/or high) heart rate notification: go to the Health app, Browse, Heart, Heart Rate, scroll to the very bottom of the screen and click on Low Heart Rate Notifications (or High Heart Rate Notifications). You can set it to alert you (via vibrations) when you heart rate drops to one of these options: 40, 45, or 50 beats per minute for 10 minutes or more. This vibration alert really works well.

I’m upset that Apple Watch doesn’t have this vibration notification option for low blood oxygen. (They should at least have a badge alert!). I assumed it did, so I was surprised to learn from my physician-ordered Blackstone ring study that my blood oxygen drops to the low 80s at night and that I have moderate sleep apnea. It turns out that these low blood oxygen levels have also been reflected in my Ultra watch for well over a year, but I never thought to manually check because I assumed I would’ve been alerted. (And the third-party Pillow app that I pay for hasn’t been correctly pulling the blood oxygen data from my watch, either.)

Apple will be discussing their new products on Monday, so I assume they’ll be announcing a sleep apnea tracker if they’ve finally gotten that blood oxygen patent dispute solved. But I’m still disappointed that they don’t have an alert option for blood oxygen levels.

The Apple Watch DOES have an option to set up a vibration alert when the heart rate is at 40, 45, and 50 beats per minute for 10 minutes or more. It also has a vibration alert for high heart rate. Please see my post for directions how.

Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t have a low blood oxygen vibration notification. I assume that will change once they solve the blood oxygen patent dispute and/or develop the sleep apnea feature they’ve been working on.

I wonder if it’s based on watch model. I have the original Ultra, and the patterned vibration alert for low heart rate wakes me up. Even if you don’t have an Ultra, try giving Apple customer service a call to see if it’s possible to set up a vibration alert:

Thank you for your well wishes and the same to you with your upcoming appointment.

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Below is what Google AI search says, though I suggest calling Apple Support to verify. All I know is that my watch will vibrate in a distinct pattern which wakes me up. At the same time, my Ultra (the first version) is also displaying the low heart rate alert.

There is no FDA requirement for fall detection devices.

I have an Ultra, and it has Notifications as an option for both high and low BPM, but no reference to vibrations. Will you please post a screenshot of the vibration option?