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Apple iPhone health tracking could detect mental health soon.
Your future Apple iPhone health tracking could detect depression, anxiety using health data.
Apple Inc. is known for its impressive hardware and software development in the tech industry. The company’s current software features are surrounded by health focus improvement acts.
And they are looking forward to improving on the health-centred features.
Our smartphone has become our daily driver as we used it in everyday activities. In today’s tech, smartphones are used in monitoring health status and even suggest the best alternative to curb discrepancies in our health routine activities.
With the existence of this feature, your iPhone could also automatically detect mental health issues like depression, anxiety and cognitive decline. All this will possible by the daily activity data gathered by the device.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple Inc. is working on technology to help diagnose depression and cognitive decline, aiming for tools that could expand the scope of its burgeoning health portfolio.
WHY THE DEVELOPMENT ?
A 2019 feasibility study showed that 31 adults with cognitive impairment exhibited different behaviour on their Apple devices than healthy older adults.
The Company has partnered with UCLA and Biogen to explore if sensitive data like facial expressions, typing metrics could signal mental-health concerns.
This process will focus on developing algorithms that can assess mental health status using sensor-gathered activity, and daily phone activity data including sleep.
According to Biogen, it is collaborating on the study because it hopes it can help Apple develop an iPhone feature to detect mild cognitive impairment early and encourage relevant users to seek care earlier.
Privacy.
Apple is known for its privacy concerns, therefore the information gathered from Apple’s studies with Biogen and UCLA will be collected and store only on the iPhone, without transferring it to Apple’s servers.
Apple believes our phones can pay attention to us and hopefully get us to pay more attention to ourselves.
Personal Analysis : Apple Watch data sync with iPhone routine data.
Given the scope of iPhone and Apple Watch capabilities in our lives and considering the time we spend on our phones every day, this feature when establish will go a long way to improve our health status. iPhone and Apple Watch will be used to track cognitive function over time.
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Apple annual hardware and software event is around the corner. As expected new hardware device and software update will be announced.
The software announcements is expected to feature the following software updates from the iOS, watchOS, ipadOS and macOS. The iOS 16 updates come with some unique and easy customizable features to user in the apple ecosystem. Despite all this, not all devices will receive such updates.
Usually these upgrade in software also requires certain kind of hardware to bring its full feature functionality to the users. And in times like this, the old devices are sacrifice to outdoor the future updates of the software. Apple in particular is known for providing a longer software support for its devices. For instance the iPhone 5s received software support for for six years before finally given up the ghost. iPhone 6s and 6s plus users has also enjoyed a longer software support on these devices from iOS 9 til iOS 15.
Can iPhone 7 Get iOS 16?
Before apple annual WWDC event , most users anticipated that Apple will drop support for the iPhone 6s and 6s plus models and probably give the iPhone 7 and 7plus an additional one year software support update, unfortunately the opposite has just happened as apple has dropped support for the iPhone 6s ,iPhone6s plus, iPhone7 and iPhone 7plus models.
The iPhone 7 and 7plus model is still a great device. It uses Apple A10 Fusion 64-bit system-on-chip, which consists of two low-power cores and two high-power cores (only two cores are used at any point in time).
The A10 chip also features a hexa-core graphics chip capable of “console-level gaming.
The same chip is featured in the sixth generation iPad, seventh generation iPad, and seventh generation iPod Touch.
iOS 16 is compatible with these devices.
What iPhones can get iOS 16?
- iPhone 13
- iPhone 13 mini
- iPhone 13 Pro
- iPhone 13 Pro Max
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 12 mini
- iPhone 12 Pro
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone XR
- iPhone X
- iPhone 8
- iPhone 8 Plus
- iPhone SE (2nd generation or later)
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watch WWDC22 event below
The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has announced an extension to the deadline for the
SIM re-registration exercise to September 2022.
According to the minister, the extension had become necessary due to the various challenges registrants are facing to complete the exercise. One major factor can be attributable the issue or acquisition of their national identification cards.
This has led to several calls on the government and the ministry to extend the exercise to September 30.
“Upon consultation, Government has decided to grant a final conditional extension. The programme will be extended to September 30 to end on the anniversary of its commencement, that will give us one full year of SIM re-registration,” the minister stated.
“It will be reviewed at the end of this month [July] and any SIM that has not been fully registered by the end of August will be barred from certain services including voice and data. It will also be more expensive to use unregistered SIMs,” she added.
The full range of punitive measures, the Minister noted will be announced at another press briefing which will be held in September this year.
Apple usual annual Developers Conference (WWDC22) has just ended and the annual software preview has been launched. The event was overhauled with software updates from the iOS, watchOS, ipadOS to macOS. These upgrade in software also requires certain kind of hardware to bring its full feature functionality to the users. And in times like this, the old devices are sacrifice to outdoor the future updates of the software. Apple in particular is know for providing a longer software support for it devices. for instance the iPhone 5s received software support for for six years before finally given up the ghost. iPhone 6s and 6s plus users has also enjoyed a longer software support on these devices.
With the released of iOS16 most users anticipated that Apple will drop support for the iPhone 6s and 6s plus models and probably give the iPhone 7 and 7plus an additional one year software support update, unfortunately the opposite has just happened as apple has dropped support for the iPhone 6 ,iPhone6s plus, iPhone7 and iPhone 7plus models.
below are the iPhone models that will receive ios 16 software updates.
iOS 16 is compatible with these devices.
- iPhone 13
- iPhone 13 mini
- iPhone 13 Pro
- iPhone 13 Pro Max
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 12 mini
- iPhone 12 Pro
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone XR
- iPhone X
- iPhone 8
- iPhone 8 Plus
- iPhone SE (2nd generation or later)
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iOS 16 is Compatible with only these devices.
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