Withings Updates ScanWatch 2 With 35-Day Battery Life the Apple Watch Might 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 latest 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. Should you’re not acquainted, the ScanWatch’s massive deal is that they’re like smartwatches disguised as common outdated analog watches, full with mechanical time-telling palms and a extra customary total watch face.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 seems good, and the blue-banded, silver mannequin is not any completely different. In reality, I’m a fan of the blue, if solely as a result of it jogs my memory of the blue swimsuit Adam Sandler wears all through the film Punch Drunk Love. (Should you haven’t seen it and also you’re scoffing at an Adam Sandler point out on this Very Severe Smartwatch Article, reduce it out, and go watch the film.)

This model of the ScanWatch 2 is accessible now on Withings’s web site, Amazon, Goal, and Greatest Purchase, and prices $369.95. Consumers will get a month of Withings Plus free of charge. (After that, it’s $9.95 a month, or $99.50 per 12 months.)

Below the hood, the ScanWatch 2 does a variety of what different, extra conspicuous smartwatches do. It takes measurements of issues like coronary heart price and blood oxygen degree, 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 monitor REM sleep and take extra correct measurements of your respiration rhythm when 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 attainable causes of fatigue, and supply AI-powered suggestions telling customers what they could have the ability to do to really feel much less drained on a regular basis. These suggestions are collected underneath 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 by a few of 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 type 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 full of circles with inexperienced outlines that may be wherever from nonexistent to an entire ring—the fuller the ring, the much less fatigued you’re. On the backside, numerous packing containers let you know 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 discuss to about your well being metrics. It will probably pay attention to patterns; one other Withings consultant I spoke with confirmed me a display screen the place the chatbot famous he had simply misplaced a bit weight, speculated concerning the causes, and requested if he’d been deliberately attempting to shed extra pounds. In concept, it will 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 Verify-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 intently 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 individuals additional into unhealthy obsessions with always monitoring and micromanaging their well being? I’m not an skilled on this; for that, I’d encourage you to learn the many articles on the subject. We’re using 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 received’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 a variety 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 really attain 35 days on a cost, as a result of clearly you possibly can’t anticipate that whereas utilizing each single function the ScanWatch 2 presents. He stated you’d want to show off a variety of options, together with a few of the in a single day monitoring or notifications. Withings, to its credit score, has a chart that may let you know which options incur the largest battery life penalty. Good to have a information.