Apple confirms ECG app is coming to Apple Watch in Canada ‘as quickly as possible’
Apple has confirmed it is working to bring ECG functionality to customers using the Apple Watch Series 4 in Canada ‘as quickly as possible’.
The news comes via a statement shared to The Canadian Press after it was discovered last week that Apple had received government clearance to launch the feature in Canada, with regulatory filings appearing in the Health Canada database.
The expansion of the ECG app would mean customers in Canada could perform an electrocardiogram on their Apple Watch Series 4 to show whether their heart rhythm indicates signs of atrial fibrillation, a serious form of irregular heart rhythm, or a normal sinus rhythm.
The feature launched exclusively in the United States late last year, with Apple adding support to users in Hong Kong and 19 countries across Europe, including the United Kingdom, Portugal, France and Germany with the release of watchOS 5.2 in March, followed by enabling the feature in Croatia, Czech Republic, Iceland, Poland and Slovakia. with watchOS 5.2.1 earlier this month.
Apple didn’t reveal in its statement when customers in Canada can expect ECG functionality to arrive, but it sounds as if Apple will release the feature with the watchOS 5.3 update which is currently being tested ahead of its public release.