Google’s next Wear OS update could go all-in on health features
We’re still waiting to see exactly how Google’s acquisition of Fitbit will affect its future wearables, but it seems increasingly likely that the next version of Wear OS is going to be a lot more focused on your health.
Google Fit already does a decent job of activity and stat tracking on Wear OS, but a user survey spotted by Droid Life suggests that lots more is on the way in the next version of the software that Google puts on its smartwatches.
The survey, sent out through the Google User Experience Research program, polls participants about what they’d like to see included in future Wear OS upgrades, whenever they might happen to arrive.
Included in the options are SPO2 (oxygenation) tracking, sleep apnea detection, sleep analysis, heartbeat alerts, recovery time monitoring, stress tracking, pairing for medical devices and gym equipment, rep detection and more.
Ask and you shall receive
The survey also mentions water, food and calorie tracking, as well as logging elevation and flights of stairs climbed. If all of these new features get included when the next version of Wear OS rolls around, we could be talking about some serious upgrades.
Wear OS doesn’t currently track sleep, for example, though you can import this data from other apps. One new feature proposed by the user survey is a smart alarm setting that wakes you up when it best suits your natural circadian rhythms.
Of course just because these options are mentioned in a user survey doesn’t mean that Google is going to include them in the next version of Wear OS – but it does at least give us a few clues about the areas that might be improved upon.
We could well hear more about the future of Wear OS and Google’s wearables in general at Google IO 2020, the developer conference which is scheduled to take place between May 12-14 later this year.
Via 9to5Google
We’re still waiting to see exactly how Google’s acquisition of Fitbit will affect its future wearables, but it seems increasingly likely that the next version of Wear OS is going to be a lot more focused on your health. Google Fit already does a decent job of activity and stat…
