Withings Updates ScanWatch 2 With 35-Day Battery Life the Apple Watch May Solely Dream Of

Withings, which is greatest identified for its smart scales and related gadgets, additionally makes a smartwatch collection, the newest of which is the ScanWatch 2. At IFA 2025, the corporate announced a brand new blue and silver model of the 42mm mannequin. It additionally unveiled HealthSense 4, an AI-laden software program replace that leverages the tech to deal with a set of recent health- and sleep-tracking options.

I grabbed an image of the ScanWatch 2 whereas I used to be there, and now I get the enchantment of this watch. For those who’re not acquainted, the ScanWatch’s large deal is that they’re like smartwatches disguised as common previous analog watches, full with mechanical time-telling palms and a extra normal total watch face. The display screen itself is only a watch face complication—a tiny circle embedded within the higher a part of the display screen. The ScanWatch 2 appears to be like good, and the blue-banded, silver mannequin is not any completely different. The truth is, I’m a fan of the blue, if solely as a result of it jogs my memory of the blue go well with Adam Sandler wears all through the film Punch Drunk Love. (For those who haven’t seen it and also you’re scoffing at an Adam Sandler point out on this Very Critical Smartwatch Article, lower it out, and go watch the film.)

This model of the ScanWatch 2 is offered now on Withings’s web site, Amazon, Goal, and Finest Purchase, and prices $369.95. Consumers will get a month of Withings Plus at no cost. (After that, it’s $9.95 a month, or $99.50 per yr.)

Beneath the hood, the ScanWatch 2 does quite a lot of what different, extra conspicuous smartwatches do. It takes measurements of issues like coronary heart price and blood oxygen stage, or carries out ECG readings to energy atrial fibrillation detection. 

With HealthSense 4, the ScanWatch 2 (and ScanWatch Nova and Nova Good, however not the unique ScanWatch or ScanWatch Gentle) can now observe REM sleep and take extra correct measurements of your respiratory rhythm whilst you sleep. Withings says its new algorithms, utilizing information gathered by the smartwatch—reminiscent of coronary heart price variability, bodily exercise, physique temperature, and respiratory rhythm—can discover doable causes of fatigue, and supply AI-powered suggestions telling customers what they could be capable to do to really feel much less drained on a regular basis. These suggestions are collected beneath what Withings calls the Vitality Indicator, which you want a Withings Plus subscription to entry in your cellphone.

Withings product supervisor Etienne Tregaro walked me via among the new app options at IFA 2025. The Vitality Indicator display screen offers you an outline of your “vitality,” which I took to be a form of shorthand for Withings’ AI system’s impression of your total readiness to face a given day. Days of the week on the prime of the display screen are crammed with circles with inexperienced outlines that may be anyplace from nonexistent to an entire ring—the fuller the ring, the much less fatigued you’re. On the backside, varied containers inform you the place you’re for the day in classes like Restoration and Effort.

The Withings app additionally options Withings Intelligence—a chatbot you possibly can speak to about your well being metrics. It could be aware of patterns; one other Withings consultant I spoke with confirmed me a display screen the place the chatbot famous he had simply misplaced slightly weight, speculated in regards to the causes, and requested if he’d been deliberately attempting to shed extra pounds. In principle, it could give him useful steering, relying on his reply.

The subscription additionally offers entry to AI-powered notifications letting customers know when their menstrual cycle is starting or when the ScanWatch 2 has picked up indicators of an an infection. The Withings Plus service additionally comes with Cardio Test-Up, an choice to have your cardiovascular information checked by an expert heart specialist, who returns a primary abstract of what they noticed and suggestions for coping with points which will have cropped up.

It’s a staggering replace that leapfrogs over Apple’s extra passive presentation of well being data and extra carefully mirrors efforts by corporations like Samsung to deploy AI, knowledgeable by good wearables information, as a well being coach. I fear it might draw sure folks additional into unhealthy obsessions with always monitoring and micromanaging their well being? I’m not an professional on this; for that, I’d encourage you to learn the many articles on the subject. We’re driving into a brand new frontier with generative AI now changing into extra deeply enmeshed in good wearables, and solely time will inform.

One factor you gained’t want a subscription for is the battery life enchancment that comes with the brand new HealthSense4 software program. Now, the ScanWatch 2 will get 35 days on a cost, which is up from 30 days earlier than, already far more battery life than most traditional smartwatches. Though to get there, you’ll in all probability want to show off plenty of the ScanWatch 1’s options, like its always-on show or blood oxygen sensor.

Tregaro instructed me Withings managed so as to add these days by figuring out areas it might optimize its code. I requested what your settings must seem like to truly attain 35 days on a cost, as a result of clearly you possibly can’t count on that whereas utilizing each single function the ScanWatch 2 affords. He mentioned you’d want to show off plenty of options, together with among the in a single day monitoring or notifications. Withings, to its credit score, has a chart that may inform you which options incur the most important battery life penalty. Good to have a information.