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For years, an app called Natural Cycles has been assisting women in tracking their ovulation cycles as a form of contraception. To use it, women have to manually enter their temperature at the same time every morning. It’s a cumbersome process that needs to be followed strictly. Now, the company has completed a proof-of-concept study showing that its app can be paired with a wearable to continuously monitor temperature data and other body signals for effective pregnancy prevention. Wearables may finally make Natural Cycles’s hormone-free birth control more compelling to women and health experts alike.

Integrating wearables into the app’s experience may help people stay on top of the method, which requires strict and regular temperature-taking to work effectively. The Food and Drug Administration has signed off, clearing the app for use with wearable thermometers. Recently, period-tracking app Clue received FDA clearance for use as a form of…