Modern models are equipped with Apple Watch – Series 8 and Beyond, accurately – with a temperature sensor. This may seem useful for a variety of healthy purposes, but in practice, there are restrictions. One of them is that you cannot simply ask Apple Watch to measure your body temperature now. Let’s see what is happening.
If you open the health app on your iPhone and click browse > Body measurements You will notice that the wrist temperature trends are given in contrast “from the foundation”. In the screen shot below, for example, “-0.3 ° C of the foundation”. Very interesting, but what if you want to know the absolute temperature instead of its higher or less than normative/medium reading?
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Fortunately, this information is available, and it is relatively easy to find it – you just need to be exposed to some lists. Pass down on the wrist temperature screen shown above to find options with a section head. Click on the named option Show all dataAnd you will see a long list of dates and times when the watch measures your temperature. Press one of these and you will see a absolute temperature reading: In this case, on January 11, 2025, the reading is 36.37 ° C (97.47 ° F).
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Instead, you can look at the Apple watch itself. Open the settings and scroll down until you start seeing the list of applications arranged albeit (you may start with activity and application store). Find health on this list and click on it.
Now click Health data > Body measurements > Wrist. You will see a list of recorded temperatures, starting with the latest. In the screen shot below, you can see that the absolute temperature the last time you took a reading was, again, 36.37 ° C.
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Why can’t I take my temperature now?
There are some other restrictions that may be worth noting. The Apple Watch is not the dignitarian thermometer equivalent, which you can use to perform a spot examination at any moment. Instead, it takes your temperature at the time you choose it during sleep. So when we look for data using the above method, it is still possible to determine your temperature now. Whatever the information you find is likely to be at least a few hours old.
Moreover, the Apple Watch is completely special about the size of a large sample enough. It will not be enough to put the monitoring for sleeping tonight and then requesting the data tomorrow morning. Instead, you should wear the Apple watch for a few weeks in a row before the results begin to appear. If you are wondering why the first screenshot in this article is exposed to trends during the first half of 2024, when Apple Watch has a reading from January 2025, it is because reading once is not enough for Apple Watch. If you try to pass the graph to the right, he says it needs more data.
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Apple Watch is designed to monitor long -term trends instead of one time in time. But the Apple can allow the watch to show the future temperature readings. The fingers crossed.