North America Smart Watch Market Trends

Statistics for the 2023 & 2024 North America Smart Watch market trends, created by Mordor Intelligence™ Industry Reports. North America Smart Watch trend report includes a market forecast to 2029 and historical overview. Get a sample of this industry trends analysis as a free report PDF download.

Market Trends of North America Smart Watch Industry

This section covers the major market trends shaping the North America Smart Watch Market according to our research experts:

Increase in Health Awareness among Consumers is Expected to Drive the Studied Market

The population's growing concern for their own personal health and fitness and increased smartphone penetration are the main drivers propelling the growth of the market under study. Also, people have become more interested in smartwatches in recent years because they have high-tech features like tracking, alerts, and connection.

  • The most helpful element of wearable technology has been monitoring health and raising awareness of health issues. It benefits customers by offering the required health indicators to exercise lovers, but it also gives patients information about their condition. New users of smartwatches are rapidly increasing, with older people among them. This is due to the addition of health-monitoring capabilities by wearable manufacturers like Apple and Fitbit, which appeal to older people and keep them informed about their health in real time.
  • For a variety of reasons, patients frequently forget to take their medications. Reminding patients when it's time to take their medicines and keeping track of when they wear wearables can be helpful. These trends are anticipated to propel the smartwatch industry as they support consumer health awareness.
  • Additionally, smartwatch technology has ushered in a trend of incorporating electronics into daily tasks, fits with shifting lifestyles, and may be worn on the body. Smartwatches are wristbands introduced by companies like Fitbit, Huami, Fossil, Samsung, and Apple, among others, and also serve as activity trackers. Because of the fitness trend and the many features that these smartwatches offer, these wristbands have become very popular.
  • However, Apple, in the current year, announced to launch an extreme sports version of the Apple Watch this year, which is expected to have the ability to detect fevers by taking the wearer's body temperature along with a larger battery to accommodate longer workout times.
North America Smart Watch Market - Leading fitness and sport apps in March 2022, by revenue, in USD Millions

Personal Assistance to Witness Significant Growth

  • Personal assistance is one of the significant applications preferred by consumers. Smartwatches are always in contact with the consumer and are used for various personal assistance alerts and activities. For instance, most smartwatches in the current market scenario allow notifications based on calendar events, fitness goals, etc. and will enable the user to set reminders via smartwatches.
  • The significant millennial population's adoption of smartwatches and increased spending for their regular work hours are also being tracked.Growing luxury standards are critical driving factors in the segment.
  • Furthermore, advancements in smartwatches for personal assistant features such as delivering notifications, making calls, and providing easy-to-read notifications, as well as the enhanced wear OS featuring the Google Assistant integrated into smartwatch devices, are driving market demand in emerging economies.
  • The expansion of cloud-based virtual personal assistant services for most smartwatch devices, including innovative features, is expected to drive real-time features across a connected environment. Further developments in the operating systems that integrate medical hardware in the smartwatch and AI-based behavioral analytics are expected to boost innovations in personal assistance technologies.

Therefore, the popularity of these devices depends upon a wide range of monitoring capabilities, including notifications, alarms, music control, auto sleep, and other functions that smartwatches offer. Vendors are too aligned on these factors when launching multiple variants.

North America Smart Watch Market - Share of smartwatch shipments from 2020 to 2021, by region, in Percentage

North America Smartwatch Market Size & Share Analysis - Growth Trends & Forecasts (2024 - 2029)