Apple is bringing blood oxygen monitoring back to some Apple Watches with an update after a US Customs ruling.

The seventh developer beta of iOS 26 is here, and with it returns the previously disabled Apple Watch blood oxygen feature.

The change doesn’t affect previously sold models with the original version of the feature or units bought outside the U.S.

Two software updates land on Aug. 14 which will restore the blood oxygen feature to US editions of Apple Watch Series 9 and ...

Apple just rolled out a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature to specific models, following a recent victory in a legal dispute.

Rather than the Apple Watch itself displaying blood oxygen readings, data now appears on the iPhone paired with the watch. After updating to iOS 18.6.1 and watchOS 11.6.1, the watch’s oxygen sensor ...

The seventh developer betas of iOS 26 and watchOS 26 include a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature on Apple Watch Series 9, Apple ...

The feature was removed on select smartwatches due to a patent-infringement lawsuit, but Apple has “redesigned” it.

Apple today announced that blood oxygen monitoring will return to Apple Watch models in the United States via a software ...

More than a year after an import ban forced the company to remove blood oxygen monitoring from some US Apple Watch models, ...

The company said it would issue a software update to restart the technology, which was caught up in a patent dispute.

The blood oxygen level measurement is coming back to the Apple Watch Series 9, 10, and the Ultra 2, over a year after Apple ...