US-based technology giant Apple seems to be trying to develop a new feature for iPhones. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Apple wants to use this feature to detect and inform the user that iPhone owners are experiencing conditions such as depression, cognitive and anxiety disorders, or anxiety. So how will this happen?
The new feature Apple is working on includes analyzing an iPhone owner’s facial expressions, walking speed, how he speaks, heart and respiratory measurement values, and data on sleep duration and quality. In addition, the company wants to try to understand whether the user has a psychological problem by evaluating the typos and typing speeds of the users.
This system also sparked privacy debates
Apple developed the new feature, which it is working on to detect health problems of users, together with state universities in California and Los Angeles and the pharmaceutical company Biogen. In other words, there are important scientists of the USA behind the project. However, this feature has sparked a discussion that Apple will monitor user data, as you can imagine. However, people familiar with the subject state that the new feature that Apple is working on will not send data to the servers, that all operations will be performed by the iPhone, thus protecting user privacy and security.
The new feature that Apple is working on is codenamed “Seabreeze”. The company will test Seabreeze with an agreement with 3,000 users. The scope of the studies to be started this year is planned to be increased to 20 thousand people through Biogen next year. Sources providing information to The Wall Street Journal state that Jeff Williams, who is responsible for Apple’s Health application, is very enthusiastic about this feature, and that very passionate and enthusiastic statements were made at the meetings held at the company.
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