Life-saving ECG app, irregular heart rhythm notification feature available for Apple.

A year after Apple launched the ECG app on Apple Watch Series 4, the feature is finally being launched in India. Designed to help Apple Watch users identify early signs of warning, the feature has helped save lives of many.

The ECG app and irregular heart rhythm (IRN) notification feature will help users identify signs of AFib, the most common form of irregular rhythm. The feature is already live for Indian users and the same can be accessed by updating Apple Watch Series 4 to watchOS 6, available starting September 19. The ECG app will be preinstalled on the new Apple Series 5 that will be available in India starting September 27.

To enable these new heart features, users will be taken through an onscreen setup flow that includes details about who can use these features, what the features can and cannot do, what results users may get, how to interpret those results and clear instructions for what to do if users are feeling symptoms that require immediate medical attention.

These health features are specialized ones. And as each market is different, it requires a lot of backend work that needs to be put in place. When such services are launched, the idea is to offer a completely sorted and seamless experience. People familiar to the matter revealed that certain authorities were consulted before rolling out these features in India.

The ECG app that now appears on Apple Watch Series 4 and later running watchOS 6 in India, can be used to measure an...