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Users of Apple Watch Series 8 or Apple Watch Ultra have access to a new fertility-related feature<\/a> intended to help women identify when they\u2019ve ovulated. Apple Vice President of Health Dr. Sumbul Desai noted that users could utilize their personal fertility data to help them get pregnant, commenting<\/a>, \u201cIf you\u2019re trying to conceive, knowing if and when you ovulated can inform your family planning with your health care provider.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet Wired reported<\/a> that \u201csome medical experts… worry that fertility predictions provided by tech companies could be misused, resulting in unwanted pregnancies by people who don\u2019t understand how complicated fertility can be.”<\/p>\n

How reasonable are fears of unplanned pregnancies in watch wearers? Is there any truth to the idea of women knowing \u201cjust enough [about their fertility] to be dangerous,\u201d as the saying goes?<\/p>\n

How the Apple ovulation tracker works<\/h3>\n

Watch Series 8 users can now receive alerts for cycle deviations, like when \u201cyour logged cycle history from the previous six months shows a pattern of irregular periods, infrequent periods, prolonged periods, or persistent spotting.\u201d Users can even export their fertility data to a PDF to share with their health care provider, though they\u2019ll likely need to find a health care provider trained in restorative reproductive medicine<\/a>, an approach that treats underlying issues in order to \u201crestore women\u2019s healthy cycles, and to protect and enhance their natural fertility,” if they don\u2019t simply want to receive a recommendation for hormonal birth control to \u201ctreat\u201d common reproductive issues.<\/p>\n

Watch users can also receive notifications when they\u2019ve presumably ovulated. In order to conceive, you need good-quality cervical mucus, sperm, and a mature egg. Ovulation is when a mature egg is released from one of the ovaries. Cervical mucus helps the sperm make it all the way up to the fallopian tube, where it can live for up to five days. If sperm is present at the time the mature egg is released, at ovulation, conception can occur.<\/p>\n

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Just before ovulation, the woman\u2019s basal body temperature (BBT), or her body temperature at rest, dips slightly. After ovulation, her BBT rises 0.4-0.5 degrees, and remains elevated until just before her next period. By tracking BBT, you can presumptively confirm that ovulation has occurred, though performing an ultrasound series and blood draw is the only way to confirm ovulation for certain.<\/p>\n

In order to measure BBT, the Apple watch contains two sensors that measure wrist temperature every five seconds throughout the night, similarly to the Oura ring, Ava bracelet<\/a>, or Tempdrop upper armband<\/a>. Natural Cycles, the first app to receive FDA clearance as a digital contraceptive, paired with the Oura Ring for BBT measurements, and is considering<\/a> pairing with the Apple watch. Apple noted that users must wear the watch for two cycles in order to start receiving ovulation confirmations.<\/p>\n

According to the Apple support website, in addition to presumptive confirmation that ovulation has occurred, marking a return to infertility within 24-48 hours<\/a> after ovulation, Health app or Cycle Tracking app users can also see at a glance their predicted six-day fertility window and predicted next period date.<\/p>\n

The method matters<\/h3>\n

According to the Apple support website, the period prediction feature is based on \u201ca traditional calendar method,\u201d also known as the rhythm method<\/a>, a precursor to modern evidence-based fertility awareness methods<\/a>, which worked best for women with regular cycles. The rhythm method had a significantly higher failure rate than hormonal birth control \u2014 24% incidence of unplanned pregnancies with typical use<\/a> \u2014 and until 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u2019s website mistakenly conflated every<\/em> fertility awareness method\u2019s effectiveness with the rhythm method\u2019s effectiveness. In 2019, the CDC updated the statistic to reflect a range (2-23%) of pregnancy prevention effectiveness, depending on the method.<\/p>\n

READ: Jennifer Aniston and the harsh reality of finite fertility<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With the addition of the ovulation tracker via BBT readings, the app\u2019s period and fertile window predictors should logically become more<\/em> reliable, since the readings reflect the woman\u2019s own biomarkers of fertility and not just a calendar calculation.<\/p>\n

Theoretically, a woman could use her BBT readings and calendar data to predict when she\u2019d be fertile, and abstain or use barrier methods during her predicted fertile time. It\u2019s also true, as critics note, that stress, illness, alcohol, and more can impact temperature readings. This is why evidence-based fertility awareness methods use a crosscheck of cervical mucus observations or urinary metabolite observations, which Apple\u2019s fertility features don\u2019t include.<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s own website<\/a> reads: \u201cCycle Tracking should not be used as a form of birth control. Data from Cycle Tracking should not be used to diagnose a health condition. Ovulation estimates are estimates only, and do not guarantee that ovulation has occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n

Can one app do it all?<\/h3>\n

Modern evidence-based fertility awareness methods<\/a> can, in fact, be used to reliably avoid pregnancy. At the same time, the apps themselves, and their proprietary algorithms, are not necessarily fool-proof.<\/p>\n

For starters, the relative recency of fem-tech app development and uptake means that research to date has largely included small<\/a>, even very small<\/a>, sample sizes. In 2018, Rebecca Simmons, a University of Utah researcher who studied the Clue Birth Control app, told Slate<\/a>, \u201c[The apps] are taking something that has legitimate scientific backing but applying it in a way that isn\u2019t necessarily scientifically sound, and without providing guidance on how to navigate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As this Natural Womanhood<\/a> article pointed out, \u201c[S]ince each algorithm is designed with a single specific purpose in mind, aiming to optimize certain metrics or reduce specific inaccuracies, no one model can optimize every fertility-related goal. That means one algorithm [for one app] can\u2019t simultaneously optimize for avoiding pregnancy and<\/em> achieving pregnancy and<\/em> health monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n

In contrast, modern evidence-based fertility awareness methods<\/a>, which rely on data from the woman\u2019s own biomarkers, like cervical mucus, cervical position, and qualitative or even quantitative urinary hormone metabolite measurements, can<\/em> be used to avoid or<\/em> achieve pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Information is power<\/h3>\n

Risk of unplanned pregnancy is logically highest in women using technological versions of the rhythm method, like the Clue Birth Control app<\/a>, and for women who don\u2019t know how to read their body\u2019s own indicators of fertility and infertility. Instructors trained in modern evidence-based fertility awareness methods teach women how to identify when they are and are not fertile. But apps like Apple\u2019s fertility features do not teach women this information.<\/p>\n

For this reason, women who attempt to determine their fertility based on their Apple fertility data alone could potentially be at increased risk of unplanned pregnancy.<\/p>\n

The answer is to increase women\u2019s body literacy by providing more education<\/a>, not less, about their fertility \u2014 preferably starting<\/a> when they are young. Women deserve to know how their bodies work so that they can make informed decisions with their personal fertility data. Apple\u2019s ovulation tracker is a step towards providing the average woman more information, but much more education is needed.<\/p>\n

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