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.

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 US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded medical device development tool (MDDT) status to the Apple Watch's atrial fibrillation (AFib) history tracker. The feature is first piece of digital health technology to earn MDDT status, the FDA said in a statement.

The Apple Watch has been a bit of a game-changer for health and fitness thanks to its ability to push people to move more, sleep longer and break a sweat with Apple Fitness+. But the wearable has just made history as the first digital health tech device to receive FDA approval.

Apple's atrial fibrillation (AFib) history feature on Apple Watch has been qualified by the FDA under its Medical Device Development Tools

Sneha Saha, a Delhi woman, was saved by her Apple Watch from atrial fibrillation (AFib) by detecting an atypically elevated heart rate. The incident e

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