The ouroboros of Apple rumors continues with a report that the company has delayed the addition of blood pressure monitoring to the Apple Watch until at least 2024.
Bloomberg reports that Apple "has teams working on an updated sensor and software for the Apple Watch that would determine if a user has high blood pressure, but accuracy has been a challenge during testing," according to anonymous sources familiar with the company's plans.
The report says Apple has been working on blood pressure monitoring for at least four years but is still two years away from release. And that's assuming it's truly ready in 2024; Bloomberg's sources note that Apple might actually have to wait until 2025 to introduce the feature.
That doesn't necessarily count as a delay in the traditional sense of the word. Apple hasn't publicly announced its ambitions to add blood pressure monitoring to the Apple Watch. It's hard to miss a deadline that was never set—at least not publicly—in the first place.
But people are waiting for Apple to make significant updates to the Apple Watch. The most recent iteration, the Apple Watch Series 7, is quite similar to its predecessor. Apple has mostly been refining the Apple Watch rather than making revolutionary changes to the product.
The company is said to be working on glucose-monitoring capabilities, too, but that feature could be even further out than blood pressure monitoring. Bloomberg reports that Apple is working on "new women’s health, sleep, fitness and medication management features" for a sooner release.