Apple receives a new patent that will allow Apple Watch and iPhone users to blow on the device and have it register as an input
Blowing on an Apple Watch could answer a phone call and wake up the wearable device
The pressure levels would be measured as the air from a blow moves into a cavity. Users would be able to blow on their devices to answer phone calls, awaken an Apple Watch or iPhone, and take care of other actions. While Apple Watch users can input their intentions via the touch screen, the Digital Crown, and Siri, blowing on the timepiece could add another way for Apple Watch users to navigate through the timepiece, and possibly the iPhone.
The patent does not guarantee that we will see this new feature soon on an upcoming iPhone and Apple Watch
As Apple says in the patent, “in order for blow detection assembly 317 to be able to detect a blow event from user U, blow detection assembly 317 ought to be brought within a suitable distance of the user’s mouth, for example, such that an air current created by air or any other gas expelled from the user’s mouth may be able to pass through any suitable opening 319 or otherwise interact with device 300 in order to be detected by blow detection assembly 317.”
The original filing date of the patent was March 30, 2020. Just because Apple has received a patent for this technology, that doesn’t guarantee that we will see this feature in the Apple Watch Series 7 and the iPhone 13 series or any upcoming device.
