{"id":13461,"date":"2022-05-13T05:34:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aura-strap-2-for-apple-watch-will-monitor-hydration-and-your-body-fat-percentage\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T05:34:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:34:57","slug":"aura-strap-2-for-apple-watch-will-monitor-hydration-and-your-body-fat-percentage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aura-strap-2-for-apple-watch-will-monitor-hydration-and-your-body-fat-percentage\/","title":{"rendered":"Aura Strap 2 for Apple Watch will monitor hydration and your body fat percentage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-size:.9em;\">&#13;<br \/>\n        <em>AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases.  These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content.<br \/>\n        <\/em>&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Aura Strap 2 is a smart Apple Watch band capable of recording metrics like body fat and water levels, and now comes with a fitness subscription service.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Aura is a health and fitness company that makes an Apple Watch accessory called the Aura Strap, which is now in its second iteration.  The new band collects more data in a smaller package that uses the better Bluetooth BLE 4.2+ standard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Unlike Apple Watch, the Aura Strap 2 isn&#8217;t performing constant analysis or health data collection.  The sensors in the Aura Strap 2 collect information using bioelectrical impedance analysis by completing a circuit between electrodes and the user&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 embed\">\n<div class=\"align-center\">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All-new AURA Strap 2: Supercharge your fitness\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jihgAQyJlxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>A scan is initiated by opening the Aura app on the Apple Watch.  The user places a palm against the sensors on the band for 30 seconds.  Aura says the collected data is 95% accurate when compared to the industry standard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>The band connects via Bluetooth BLE.  4.2+ and works with any Apple Watch Series 3 and newer model.  The sensors are made with surgical stainless steel and enclosed in a rubber wrist band.  The Aura Strap 2 uses cell batteries that last about 6 months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Data collected by the Aura app is synced with the Apple Health app and Apple Watch data.  This information is then used by the Aura Plus service to provide analytics and monthly reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Aura Plus also provides personalized selections of exercise videos and a chat service with fitness trainers.  Six months is included free with the purchase of the Aura Strap 2, then it costs $ 9.99 per month or $ 79.99 per year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>The Aura Strap 2 is available from Aura&#8217;s website for $ 149.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. &#13; The Aura Strap 2 is a smart Apple Watch band capable of recording metrics like body fat and water levels, and now comes with &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aura-strap-2-for-apple-watch-will-monitor-hydration-and-your-body-fat-percentage\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aura Strap 2 for Apple Watch will monitor hydration and your body fat percentage<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9],"tags":[4697,4693,120,4684,4685,133,4675,416,4687,4695,4686,652,4678,4679,119,598,606,4677,4692,4674,4676,4673,4680,4694,4696,4682,4683,4688,4689,4691,4690,489,4700,664,4698,4699,419,4681],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos5.appleinsider.com\/gallery\/48373-94392-Aura-Strap-2-xl.jpg?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/photos5.appleinsider.com\/gallery\/48373-94392-Aura-Strap-2-xl.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}