Right now, my body (and all scientific experts) are saying one thing, and my Apple Watch is telling me something else. I'm one of the folks in New York City who's currently experiencing their first air pollution crisis, and I don't need my Apple Watch Series 8 guilting me for trying to protect my neck (and the lungs inside).
For those unaware, toxic air filled with smoke particles travelled down the northeast, turning our air so orange and polluted that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s air quality index rated it as "Hazardous" yesterday (June 7), when I saw a score of 372 in my Weather app. (For context a Good AQI is between 0 and 50, and Moderate tops out at 100.) This has led to common pieces of advice from health experts: stay inside, mask up if you need to go outside and do not exercise outdoors.
