{"id":2538,"date":"2025-08-14T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:51:21","slug":"apple-launching-redesigned-blood-oxygen-feature-on-apple-watch-in-the-u-s-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/apple-launching-redesigned-blood-oxygen-feature-on-apple-watch-in-the-u-s-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple launching \u2018redesigned Blood Oxygen feature\u2019 on Apple Watch in the U.S. today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/apple-watch-ultra-blood-oxygen-sensor.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Apple has announced that it will release a software update for iPhone and Apple Watch later today with a \u201credesigned Blood Oxygen feature\u201d for Apple Watch users in the United States. This comes over 18 months after <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/01\/17\/apple-watch-series-9-ultra-2-without-blood-oxygen-sensor\/\">Apple began selling<\/a> the Apple Watch without the Blood Oxygen feature in America <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/04\/06\/apple-watch-ban-news\/\">due to a patent dispute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new feature will be made available as part of iOS 18.6.1 and watchOS 11.6.1 updates. <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"apple-watch\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1014194\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/08\/14\/apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature-returning-in-the-u-s-today\/#more-1014194\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has announced that it will release a software update for iPhone and Apple Watch later today with a \u201credesigned Blood Oxygen feature\u201d for Apple Watch users in the United States. This comes over 18 months after Apple began selling the Apple Watch without the Blood Oxygen feature in America due to a patent dispute. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}