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.

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 ...

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 ...

For millions of Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10 and Ultra 2 users who didn’t have the blood oxygen monitoring (SpO2) feature on their smartwatches, last week’s software updates offered a key ...

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If you have an Apple Watch Series 9, 10, or Ultra Watch 2 that you bought in the US in the past year, you'll finally get the blood oxygen sensing feature back via a software update later today, ...

Apple will bring a blood oxygen measurement feature to some of its watch models via a software update after receiving approval from the US government amid a protracted legal dispute over the ...

A U.S. Customs ruling has allowed Apple to restore blood oxygen readings for U.S. Apple Watch buyers for whom the feature was disabled in early 2024. For these users, the redesigned approach works by ...

The company said it would issue a software update to restart the technology, which was caught up in a patent dispute. By Tripp Mickle Reporting from San Francisco Apple said on Thursday that it would ...

Apple has your health in mind when it comes to the Apple Watch, which is why it added a blood oxygen sensor starting with the Series 6. This technology can tell if you’re getting enough oxygen to your ...

Apple has announced that it will release a software update for iPhone and Apple Watch later today with a “redesigned Blood Oxygen feature” for Apple Watch users in the United States. This comes over ...

Apple released a small build update to iOS 26 developer beta 6, which does not re-enable the blood oxygen sensor on Apple Watch in spite of the earlier iOS 18.6.1 update that did. The new iOS 26 ...