08.26.2025
Apple's almost two decades of research into a smart Apple Ring is now continuing with more details about how such a device could spin on your finger to control your
The outer portion of the Apple Ring could rotate like a volume control — image credit: Apple
We may never know when Apple actually first started considering a smart ring, but the leaks, and the expectations, and finally the patents go back to at least 2007. Since then, it's been reported to be dropped and back on — often by the same leaker.
Now in a pair of newly-revealed patents, Apple has again demonstrated that for a product it hasn't released in two decades, it isn't half trying. The first one, just called "Ring Device," is concerned with the purpose of such a smart ring, suggesting that for a start, it "may include near-field communications circuitry for emulating near-field communications tags based on biometric data and/or for logging health-related actions such as medicine intake."
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