Apple removed blood oxygen monitoring from the Apple Watch in early 2024. Somebody has to blink for it to return, and it looks like neither Masimo nor Apple are going to budge. Blood oxygen monitoring ...

Apple Watch owners in the U.S. just got a big reason to update their devices. Apple just rolled out a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature to specific models, following a recent victory in a legal dispute.

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One of the major selling points of Apple Watches in recent years has been the ability to test users’ blood oxygen levels. Unfortunately, ongoing litigation has prevented this feature from being ...

At the end of 2023, Apple had to briefly stop selling Apple Watch Series 9 in the US due to a legal battle with Massimo. At the time, the US International Trade Commission ruled that Apple infringed ...

The Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 will now be sold without their blood oxygen feature. Apple says the move will allow it to sell its high-end watches while staying in compliance amid an ongoing ...

Apple today announced that blood oxygen monitoring will return to Apple Watch models in the United States via a software update. Apple says that its blood oxygen monitoring feature has been ...

More than a year and a half after Apple had to briefly halt Apple Watch sales and then remove the blood oxygen feature from the Apple Watch Series 9 and newer devices, the company announced a ...

If you're in the US, any Watch Series 9 or Ultra 2 model you buy from Apple will no longer have a functional blood oxygen monitoring feature. Apple failed to convince the court to allow it to keep ...

Apple AAPL added a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature to some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users through an iPhone and Apple Watch software update. Once users with these models ...

A redesigned blood oxygen measurement capability will arrive Thursday for Apple Watch models that lost access to the feature due to a patent dispute. Apple found a workaround that involves the Apple ...

Blood oxygen levels refer to the amount of oxygen circulating in the blood. Normal blood oxygen levels fall between 75 and 100 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) on arterial blood gas (ABG) test results.