Apple may be one step closer to creating a blood glucose tracker

Apple is on its way to reducing the number of diabetes cases by focusing on prediabetics.

Apple reportedly has been working on an app that could prevent those with prediabetes from developing diabetes.

Prediabetes is a health condition during which the person's blood sugar levels are spiked, but not enough to consider it as diabetes. While diabetes is not curable, prediabetes can be managed and is reversible.

The tech giant has been working on the new features by testing them on some of its employees, first reports Bloomberg.

While Apple has no plans to release the app, it may integrate this technology into its future devices, one of which is a noninvasive glucose tracker that the company has been working on.

Apple has tested its app on its employees who are prediabetic by measuring their blood sugar levels with various devices and logging their glucose-level changes after they’ve consumed food.

Through this study, the company wanted to show people how food impacts blood sugar levels and prevent them from developing diabetes by simply following a healthy diet and exercising.

The company also saw how this data could be used to create new features for users.

Nevertheless, it was claimed that Apple has stopped its work on an app, as it focuses on other health features.

The study also showed that the Apple Health app lacks glucose tracking and food logging, which users need and that some other companies have been able to provide.

The topic of Apple's work on its blood sugar app prompted discussions online, with users agreeing that it would be more convenient to have something to track their calories and vitamin intake while also receiving a reminder to log such information.

"The day they integrate a glucose sensing module to the Apple watch, it's going to be a no-brainer upgrade for me. The non-Apple solutions are a bit hacky and surprisingly expensive," shared one of Reddit's users.

"They have also patented a glucose sensor in the Apple Watch. If they pull that off, that's life-changing for millions," noted another Reddit user.

Apple's noninvasive glucose tracker would use light to check a person's blood sugar levels instead of pricking them with a needle.

However, the technology is still under development and has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).