Hi,
I wanted to upgrade my watch S5 to the S9 but wanted to know if the ban will affect owners in the UK. OTA software update could disable the blood oxygen sensor and I rather not buy a watch to lose functionality.
Thanks,
Riyaz
Apple Watch Series 5, watchOS 10
It is a ban for imports into the US so it appears that if the sensor is disabled it will only be affecting US sold watches. What’s unclear is if the disable would affect current owners or only affect new ones sold with the feature already disabled. But there doesn’t appear to be anything for non-US purchased/owned watches to worry about as it currently stands.
It is a ban for imports into the US so it appears that if the sensor is disabled it will only be affecting US sold watches. What’s unclear is if the disable would affect current owners or only affect new ones sold with the feature already disabled. But there doesn’t appear to be anything for non-US purchased/owned watches to worry about as it currently stands.
The feature still works for watches purchased pre-January 18th. I have a Series 9 with the latest update that was purchased on Black Friday. The feature still works. A friend bought hers on January 19th. The feature does not work on hers.
Apierce100 wrote:
Hi I just bought my Apple Watch in the US today and i live in the UK - does this mean my watch won’t do the blood oxygen when I get back to the UK on Saturday as they didn’t advise of that in the store
It knows it is a U.S. Apple Watch. If it was imported after the ban went into effect, then it will block the O2 sensor anywhere in the world.
If it was imported before the ban, then the O2 sensor should continue to work.
Or at least that is the theory the volunteers in this user-to-user technical support forum think.
After we get some feedback via posts in the forums saying we guessed right and the sensors work for pre-banded models, but do not work for post-banded models then great.
Else we adjust our theory and hope for better news in the future.
the way patent lawsuits works is that Masimo would have to take apple to trail over the patent breach in UK too and win and then from then on would affect new us customers, not customers who already purchased the product
Thanks very much for your detailed response. That does make sense and it would be a shame if current owners in the US are affected. I’ll proceed and purchase S9.
Really appreciate your response. Was difficult to really find anything non-US related when searching or even asking Apple via iMessage.
Hi I just bought my Apple Watch in the US today and i live in the UK - does this mean my watch won’t do the blood oxygen when I get back to the UK on Saturday as they didn’t advise of that in the store
Will blood oxygen sensor ban affect UK customers?
