How can I use Apple Watch for remote Pulse Monitoring?

If you are in serious danger of becoming unresponsive or actually dying in the night, please see your doctor! There are medical devices that your doctor can order to monitor you. This issue needs much more than an Apple Watch. It requires medical attention.

oswald20 wrote:

Thank you for your advice. I have been diagnosed as having sleep apnea so I wish my wife could monitor me when I'm asleep and while she's not by my side. I wish Apple would come up with a solution to this problem.

It seems unlikely to me that Apple would add such an option. The chances of something going badly wrong are just too huge. However, you can let them know what you'd like to see here:

Product Feedback - Apple

I agree with Carol B that you should discuss this with your doctor. There may be actual medical grade devices that will do what you want. Also, if your partner is far away, what are they going to be able to do other than call emergency services?

oswald20 wrote:

Thank you for your advice. I have been diagnosed as having sleep apnea so I wish my wife could monitor me when I'm asleep and while she's not by my side. I wish Apple would come up with a solution to this problem.

Apple can only provide health monitoring features that are tested and approved by the FDA in the USA and similar agencies in other countries. ECG met this test, and so did SP02, but these are single use features, not for continuous monitoring.

Using an Apple watch would be problematic, because what happens if the watch battery runs down or if the watch loosens during the night? There are dedicated monitoring devices that have been FDA certified for this purpose.

Also, an Oura ring can monitor for sleep apnea, but it does not alert, it just reports in the morning when you sync the watch to your Oura app.

I don't know how to do this - maybe someone will be along - but please think about this carefully. If you lose connection in the night, or you battery runs down, or you take your watch off and forget to put it back on - or indeed any thing stops the signal getting out then your wife might think that something bad has happened. It wouldn't be very nice for her.