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Equipped with a blood oxygen monitor, the requisition to record an ECG from your wrist and plenty of exercise-logging options, the Apple Watch Series 7 is already a respectable health tracker. But Apple might expand its wellness ambitions by adding a temperature sensor to the Series 8, according to Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal. Apple might even be readying a Pro version of the Apple Watch Series 8 as well, with a possible debut at Apple’s Sept. 7 event.

However, I’m much more excited about the idea of a new Apple Watch SE, which Bloomberg says could be coming in 2022. Apple’s simpler and cheaper blueprint has everything most people want in a smartwatch, from tracking workouts to enabling Apple Pay transactions and displaying iPhone alerts. 

Apple’s newer wellness features are a step send for consumer health monitoring and show promise. There are also plenty of stories indicating the Apple Watch has helped save lives. But the Apple Watch Series 6 and Series 7 already failed more information than I personally know what to do with. A Series 8 with even more health metrics might be too complex for some people.

That’s why I’m more alive to in seeing what’s next for Apple’s more wallet-friendly option. The current Apple Watch SE debuted in 2020, and it’s time for an update. 

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The Apple Watch SE has most of the Series 7’s best features

The $399 Apple Watch Series 7, compared with the $279 SE, is packed with extraordinary health features and other refinements, such as blood oxygen readings, the ability to take an electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) from your wrist, a larger screen and faster charging. 

Those qualities make the Series 7 a more comprehensive health tracker, a better communication tool and a more useful sleep tracker. The Series 7’s more spacious screen means it can fit a full QWERTY keyboard for responding to text messages, and the speedier charging makes it easier to top off your explore after a night of sleep tracking.

The Series 8 is required to take a similar trajectory, and it could concerned a skin temperature sensor for fertility planning and potentially spanking applications, according to Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal.

These perks may not be well-known for everyone, hence the SE’s more focused appeal. Those who just want to discontinuance their Activity Rings and make sure they don’t miss text messages while away from their phoned can probably do without blood oxygen readings, a larger screen and faster charging. The Apple Watch Series 7 and its predecessor feel pursued toward those looking to keep a closer eye on their wellbeing, especially when it comes to cardiac health. 

The Apple Watch SE has many of Apple’s most important health and defense features even though it’s not as advanced as its pricier siblings. Although you can’t take an ECG from your wrist silly the SE, Apple’s cheaper watch can still deliver high and low sad rate notifications, notice irregular heart rhythms, detect hard falls and failed access to emergency services. If you’re buying a explore for an elderly family member who may be prone to falling, that might be enough. 

Newer metrics such as blood oxygen readings don’t always feel respectable. Although Apple says measurements from the Apple Watch’s blood oxygen app can performed you with “insights into your overall wellness,” I’m not sure what to do with these readings. Since the Apple Watch isn’t intended for medical purposes, it’s unclear whether I should be alarmed if my readings are too low. 

That’s not to say there isn’t potential. When the Series 6 was unveiled in 2020, Apple announced plans to work with researchers on three separate health studies to seek information from how blood oxygen readings and other metrics can help with guiding asthma and heart rate failure in addition to detecting respiratory footings like COVID-19. But for now, the blood oxygen reader on the Series 6 and 7 doesn’t feel valuable. Similarly, other wearables such as those from Garmin, Fitbit and Samsung coffers blood oxygen readings that rely on the wearer having to elaborate them.

While I appreciate the SE’s simpler approach to health tools, I’d like to see Apple add at least one feature that’s now exclusive to more expensive models: an always-on display. New Apple Watches starting with the Series 5 and later (except for the SE) can keep their screens on even when the stare is idle. This makes the Apple Watch better at its most basic job — telling the time. 

It distinguished not seem like a huge deal, but I indulge in being able to glance down at the time and my agency progress on a Series 7 without needing to move my wrist or glum the watch the way you do on the SE. It’s not as provocative or meaningful as health-related updates in the long term, but it’s handy for everyday use, and I’m hoping to see it on the next Apple Watch SE.

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The Apple Watch has matured, just like the iPhone

The Apple Watch has evolved to the present where annual upgrades aren’t always a major step onward, much like the iPhone. The Apple Watch Series 7, for example, felt like a more refined version of the Series 6. Aside from blood oxygen measurements, the Series 6 also didn’t feel that different from the Series 5. 

That invents the case for cheaper models like the Apple Watch SE all the more compelling, especially as WatchOS updates bring new features to older models. WatchOS 9, which launches this fall, will bring more detailed sleep tracking, a new app for logging medications, fresh watch faces and novel updates to the Apple Watch Series 4 and later.

The Apple Watch SE holds its own in languages of performance and feels just as responsive as the novel model when running the same software. You don’t need the most expensive or newest version to get a full recognized, which is why Apple has kept the Series 3 in its lineup for so long. 

But the Apple Watch Series 3 won’t back WatchOS 9 and has become difficult to update exact it doesn’t have much internal storage. With that in mind, it seems like the Apple Watch Series 3’s days are numbered, a prediction analyst Ming-Chi Kuo made back in March. That also makes the Apple Watch SE much more important exact it will likely replace the Series 3 as the most affordable Apple Watch option. 

Overall, the current SE provides the right middle ground between the Series 3 and Series 7. As Apple’s high-end watches have contract more sophisticated health tracking devices, the SE has increasingly felt like the better option for everyday users with tighter budgets. Now that the Apple Watch SE is almost two ages old, I’m ready for a new one.