Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., through the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, on June 9, 2025.
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Apple on Thursday announced a redesigned blood oxygen feature for some Apple Watch users, following a yearslong mental property dispute over the aptitude.
Apple said the redesigned feature is coming to some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users on Thursday. The update was possible due to a recent U.S. Customs ruling, the corporate said.
In 2023, the International Trade Commission found that Apple’s blood oxygen sensors infringed on mental property from Masimo, a medical technology company. Apple paused the sale of a few of its watches and started selling modified versions of the wearables without the blood oxygen feature.
“Apple’s teams work tirelessly to create services and products that empower users with industry-leading health, wellness, and safety features which might be grounded in science and have privacy on the core,” the corporate said in a release announcing the feature rollout.
CNBC has reached out to Masimo for comment.
Users who don’t currently have the feature will have the ability to access it by updating their iPhone to iOS 18.6.1 and their Apple Watch to watchOS 11.6.1, Apple said. Users will have the ability to see their ends in the Respiratory section of the Health app.
Apple has been pushing deeper into health care lately.
The corporate recently released a sleep apnea detection feature for Apple Watch users and hearing health features for its AirPods headphones. In February, Apple launched its first major health study in five years.
