{"id":183458,"date":"2025-10-17T02:38:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=183458"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:38:58","slug":"apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature-returns-in-ios-18-6-1-and-watchos-11-6-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=183458","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch blood-oxygen feature returns in iOS 18.6.1 and watchOS 11.6.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macworld<\/p>\n<p>Early last year, Apple made the bold, court-mandated decision to remove the blood-oxygen feature from the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in the U.S. over a patent dispute with medical technology company Masimo. Since then, all new watches (including the Series 10, which launched several months later) have shipped with the sensor disabled&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2878472\/the-apple-watch-blood-oxygen-sensor-is-coming-back-to-series-9-10-and-ultra-2-users.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macworld Early last year, Apple made the bold, court-mandated decision to remove the blood-oxygen feature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183458-apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature-returns-in-ios-1861-and-watchos-116-1.jpg",2400,1600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183458-apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature-returns-in-ios-1861-and-watchos-116-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183458-apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature-returns-in-ios-1861-and-watchos-116-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183458-apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature-returns-in-ios-1861-and-watchos-116-1-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183458-apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature-returns-in-ios-1861-and-watchos-116-1-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183458-apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature-returns-in-ios-1861-and-watchos-116-1-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183458-apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature-returns-in-ios-1861-and-watchos-116-1-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183458-apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature-returns-in-ios-1861-and-watchos-116-1-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183458-apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature-returns-in-ios-1861-and-watchos-116-1-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183458-apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature-returns-in-ios-1861-and-watchos-116-1-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}