AirPods Can Measure Your Heart Rate, but Are They Accurate?
I wore the AirPods Pro 3 for months before I remembered they could even track my heart rate.
I remember sitting in Apple's September keynote, when the company announced heart-rate tracking through your ears. Measuring the rate of your heartbeats from a pair of earbuds sounded futuristic, and the announcement drew one of the loudest rounds of applause of the keynote.
Then I got home and went right back to recording every workout with my Apple Watch.
There wasn't much reason to change. The Apple Watch Series 11 beat out every smartwatch I tested in our CNET Labs heart-rate comparisons against a Polar chest strap (designed explicitly to track heart rate), so I wasn't expecting a pair of earbuds to come anywhere close.
Spoiler: They did.
The Apple Watch Series 11 still takes the crown for heart rate accuracy, but if I'd included the AirPods Pro 3 in my previous...
Copyright of this story solely belongs to cnet.com. To see the full text click HERE
