Apple Watch comes with a feature that will beep a lost iPhone, and I'd never needed it more. It turned out that my phone had simply slipped down between two suitcases. I tracked the beeping, found it immediately and started to breathe again.

The Apple Watch has long had a strong focus on health and wellness. In the last few days, the FDA has just announced that it has qualified one feature, the Atrial Fibrillation history feature as a Medical Device Development Tool.

The Apple Watch receives a special approval from the FDA. Credit: Manaure Quintero/Bloomberg via The FDA just gave the Apple Watch a historic first approval for a digital health tech device. According to the U.

The Apple Watch AFib feature – which detects abnormal heartbeat patterns indicative of atrial fibrillation – has received a