Measure the noise levels of your environment
Protect your ears by allowing Apple Watch to assess the level of sound that is all around you
So you’re walking to work as lorries thunder by, someone drills the road and music blares out of one shop after another. There is a chance that this is damaging your ears but you’ll only know for certain by measuring the environmental sound levels.
With Apple Watch, this is easy. As of watchOS 6 and with Apple Watch Series 4 and later, the wearable can make use of its microphone to periodically measure the sound levels around you. Should it exceed a set threshold over three minutes, it will let you know. You can then consider taking action, such as hurrying away from the damaging situation.