{"id":82392,"date":"2025-08-14T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/82392\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:36:07","slug":"apple-reintroduces-blood-oxygen-feature-ahead-of-apple-watch-series-11-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/82392\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Reintroduces Blood Oxygen Feature Ahead of Apple Watch Series 11 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"u-speakableText-p1\">Apple is gearing up to unveil the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/the-apple-watch-series-11-may-drop-in-less-than-a-month\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple Watch Series 11<\/a> next month alongside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/iphone-17-rumors-everything-to-know-about-apples-upcoming-flagship\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">iPhone 17<\/a>, but it has an early treat for some existing Apple Watch owners in the US today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p2\">Thursday marks the surprise reintroduction of the Apple Watch blood oxygen feature, redesigned for some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 owners. The feature will be available via a software update that&#8217;s\u00a0rolling out now.<\/p>\n<p>If you own one of these models and don&#8217;t currently have access to the feature, you&#8217;ll need to ensure your paired iPhone is updated to iOS 18.6.1 and that your Apple Watch is currently running watchOS 11.6.1. The updates will trigger sensor data collected from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/health\/personal-care\/apple-watch-blood-oxygen-app-how-it-works\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blood Oxygen app<\/a> on your Apple Watch to be measured and calculated on your iPhone. The results can be viewed in the respiratory section of he Health app.<\/p>\n<p>The update was enabled by a recent US Customs ruling, the company noted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2025\/08\/an-update-on-blood-oxygen-for-apple-watch-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a blog post<\/a>. &#8220;Apple&#8217;s teams work tirelessly to create products and services that empower users with industry-leading health, wellness, and safety features that are grounded in science and have privacy at the core,&#8221; it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is gearing up to unveil the Apple Watch Series 11 next month alongside the iPhone 17, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[166,74],"class_list":["post-82392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-gadgets","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}