Apple Watch’s recent model (Series 8 or later) is equipped with a temperature sensor. It can be useful for a variety of health purposes, but in reality it is limited. One of them is that it cannot simply request Apple Watch to measure body temperature. Right now. Let’s see what’s going on.
Open the Health app on iPhone and tap eat > Body measurement The wrist temperature trend is provided in terms of distribution in the “baseline”. For example, in the screenshot below, “-0.3 ° C” in the baseline. It’s very interesting, but what should I do if I want to know the absolute temperature than the standard/average reading?
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Fortunately, you can use this information and relatively easy to find. Just look at some menus. Scroll the wrist temperature screen shown above to find the section head option. Press the option with the label Show all dataAnd you can see a long list of dates and time when the clock measures the temperature. If you press one of these, the absolute temperature read value is displayed. In this case, on January 11, 2025, the read value is 36.37 ° C (97.47 ° F).
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Or you can see the Apple Watch itself. Open the settings and scroll down until the list of apps sorted in the alphabetical order (may probably start with Activity and App Store). Find and tap your health in this list.
Now tap Health data > Body measurement > Wrist temperature. Starting with the latest temperature, the list of temperature recorded is displayed. After the last read in the screenshot below, you can see that the absolute temperature is once again 36.37 ° C.
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Why can’t you get the temperature now?
There are some restrictions that are worth mentioning. The temperature sensor of the Apple Watch is not the same as the digital thermometer and can be used to check the spot at any time. Instead, the temperature is required at the time you choose while you are sleeping. Therefore, if you look at the data using the above method, you can still determine the temperature. Right now. Whatever the information you find will be at least a few hours.
In addition, Apple Watch is also very special for having sufficient sample size. It’s not enough to sleep tonight and eagerly ask for tomorrow morning. Instead, you need to wear an Apple Watch for several weeks before the results start to appear. If the first screenshot of this article shows the trend of the first half of 2024 when Apple Watch reads in January 2024, it is not enough for Apple Watch’s satisfaction. If you try to scroll the graph to the right, you need more data.
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Apple Watch’s wrist temperature sensor is designed to monitor long -term trends, not a single moment. But Apple can show this clock that the temperature read value in the future. My finger crossed.
