iPhone watch fitness app for under 22 y/o

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Ds has recently been unwell. He has decided he would find a wearable that can monitor his heartrate, sleep etc would be helpful. Looking at Apple it seems you can't use aged under 22 ?
He's 20, 6'2 & 14st. Does he just lie about his age (a prob as ASD & hyper rules oriented) or do we need to look elsewhere?

Anyone ?

I think it's just the ECG feature that is over 22 isn't it? My Apple Watch doesn't have ECG but still measures my heart rate and sleep and movement. I think those features work regardless of age.

Of course you can use an Apple Watch to monitor heart rate and sleep at any age. Fitbit is cheaper though.

I got a cheapo from TikTok shop that does all the health bits. It seems fairly accurate to be honest. It does BP, heart rate, sleep and body temp. I think it was about £15 and so far so good.

Apologies I also meant the ecg part, hence the 'age 22' issue. So, would you just subtract two years from your dob?

I think it may just be the detection of atrial fibrillation which isn't approved for under 22 yos. That might just be because so few of that age have AFib, your DS is very unlikely to have that.

www.cnet.com/health/apple-watch-ecg-app-what-cardiologists-want-you-to-know/

@ErrolTheDragon thank you, that is a very helpful article indeed. I guess the option would still be to enter your age incorrectly as I don't see how Apple could check & I can't see how it would invalidate any results as I imagine they are mostly for personal info / showing to a UK GP rather than a USA scenario?

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I don’t think the results would be at all accurate, and I don’t think a UK GP would pay much attention to them anyway.

I’d get an Apple Watch, the tracking is great and there’s plenty of fitness apps that build on the native features, but I wouldn’t lie about his age. It’s used to calculate several cardiac measurements, and benchmark him, and giving him the wrong age will mess all of those up.

@YouveGotAFastCar I (& he) would much rather not lie (though I don't see why it would matter if results skewed if UK GPS ignore anyway?). I wondered if its set at 22 for some US insurance purpose but would be ok for Ds being & with his build but perhaps not).
Is there a good alternative to Apple that he can use age 20 then?

My husband was taken into hospital with A-fib. Both time he has shown the reading from the watch and they were taken very seriously, enough to get him taken straight into resus and further tests done.

UK GPs will look at the readings, but they know your son’s age… so they’d know he’d lied, if you see what I mean? It’s quite well known that the minimum age for Apple to track is 22, because it’s not accurate before that. It isn’t an effective tracking tool for atrial fibrillation before 22.

It’s obviously up to you if you do it, but it’s not 22 for insurance reasons, it’s 22 because the technology hasn’t proved itself reliable under that age. He’d also find that the more day to day tracking like heart rate zones would all be inaccurate if his age is set incorrectly.

@YouveGotAFastCar I understand now - thank you for explaining it so clearly x we want a watch as he's in recovery from Myocarditis so it's helpful for him to see / have record of his heartrate & sleep (we don't need the A fib bit).
Would these be accurate if we put his real age in or is the whole thing no good?

I think the heart rate records are just whatever it measures, no age-related analysis involved.