The Apple Watch Series 8 is expected to arrive later this year, as an update to the company's Apple Watch Series 7 smartwatch. However, Bloomberg's latest news book by Mark Gurman suggests that the body temperature factor will not reach this year's Apple Watch Series 8. Meanwhile, support for blood sugar monitoring and blood pressure monitoring is expected to reach future generations of Apple's smartwatch. .
In his weekly newsletter Power On, Gurman said users should not expect to feel the body temperature, as well as the blood sugar and blood pressure that will follow the Apple Watch Series 7. Blood pressure is at least two to three years away, and I would not be surprised if glucose testing did not go down until later in the second half of the decade, ”Gurman noted in a news release.
Gurman was not the only one to predict that Apple would bring body temperature monitoring to the Apple Watch Series 8 last year. Apple market analyst Ming-Chi Kuo also suggested that Apple was working on a temperature monitoring feature, while the Wall Street Journal, predicting Apple's future features, suggested that Apple could add this feature to the next generation of smartwatch. Temperature monitoring can be used to monitor better sleep, as well as interest tracking, as suggested by the Wall Street Journal.
At that time, Apple Watch owners will no longer be able to book Uber rides from the watchOS app, which was first launched in 2015, according to a MacRumors report. The company appeared to have dropped app support last month, and users were shown a message asking them to switch to the Uber mobile app on their iPhone. However, the app itself was still listed in the App Store at the time of publishing this story. The company's support page has now been updated to indicate that the Apple Watch app is no longer supported.