What only happened? There have been numerous reports of the Apple Sentinel'southward health features saving people's lives, but this instance is slightly different. A adult female flying from Utah to Hawaii gave birth 11 weeks early while the plane was over the body of water. Several items on the flight were used to keep the baby stable, including Apple's popular wearable.

As if giving birth on a flight isn't unusual enough, Lavinia Mounga didn't even realize she was significant, making her trip from Common salt Lake Urban center to Honolulu on April 28 particularly memorable. AppleInsider reports that Mounga was lucky in that a physician and three nurses trained to treat premature babies were on the plane.

"None of the equipment we take was suitable for a premature baby, and this baby was built-in at 29 weeks instead of the normal 40 weeks, right?" said Dr. Dale Glenn, a family physician at Straub Medical Heart. "So nosotros made baby warmers out of bottles that were microwaved. We used an Apple Watch to mensurate the heart rate."

Mounga and her newborn were taken to Kapiolani Medical Center for monitoring once the aeroplane touched downward in Hawaii. "If they weren't there, I don't call back he would exist here, so I'grand very blessed," she said.

You lot might discover it surprising that the Apple Watch is able to register a baby's heartbeat, but even older version were capable of the chore. Here's a video of parents using an Apple Scout Sport to transport their newborn's heartbeat to distant family members.

Before this year, the Apple Watch's Emergency SOS was credited with saving a man's life after he cruel through some ice. In 2022, its fall detection ability was able to summon emergency services when a human complanate and fractured his skull, and in that location take been enough of cases of the device detecting unknown centre conditions.

A future version of the Apple Watch could pack fifty-fifty more health-focused features. A recent SEC filing suggests the company will add not-invasive sensors to the wearable that measure blood glucose (for diabetics), pressure, and alcohol levels.