Apple will introduce a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users through an iPhone and Apple Watch software update coming later today.
Users with these models in the U.S. who currently do not have the Blood Oxygen feature will have access to the redesigned Blood Oxygen feature by updating their paired iPhone to iOS 18.6.1 and their Apple Watch to watchOS 11.6.1. Following this update, sensor data from the Blood Oxygen app on Apple Watch will be measured and calculated on the paired iPhone, and results can be viewed in the Respiratory section of the Health app. This update was enabled by a recent U.S. Customs ruling.
This means your Apple Watch can collect data in the background and pass it off to the iPhone for calculation.
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Apple explains that this move comes after U.S. Customs issued a ruling stating that Apple may import Apple Watch models with this new software design for the Blood Oxygen feature.
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This new sensor-paired-with-a-separate-computer workaround sounds... interesting.
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