Report: Apple Watch ECG will go live by year’s end

Apple made big waves at its last September special event by announcing — concurrent with FDA’s announcement of its clearance — an ECG reader built into the Apple Watch Series 4. Now, according to a leaked training document obtained by MacRumors, that feature is set to go live in the next WatchOS update, version 5.1.2, due out before the year’s end.

While the Watch itself has been on sale since September 21st, the ECG functionality wasn’t quite ready to go at launch, nor were the irregular heart rate notifications that were also announced at the September...