I am a lung cancer survivor and had an IWatch 5, I was on supplemental oxygen if my Blood Oxygen gets lower than 92..I bought an IWatch 8. I understand apple is removing the Blood Oxygen sensor from the watch. is this true?
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Not true. The Blood Oxygen ability is not going to be available in future sales of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 models. ALL the Apple Watch models that are already sold are not affected by this limitation. In short, this only applies to future sales of Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 at present.
Axel F.
Unless it needs to be sent in for repair. Even with AppleCare+ if they send your watch in for repair it will be returned WITHOUT the O2 enabled. It doesn't matter if that's the reason you bought the watch in the first place.
More subtil than that apparently, it depends of the warranty status :
Hello Resrick2, I have talked with Apple Support on this and what you say appears to be true. If you bring in an Ultra2 for a maintenance issue depending on the problem you will be given a replacement Ultra2 with O2 disabled. No Grandfather for Ultra2 before the Patent O2 Sensor dispute even if you have AppleCare+. I hope this dispute is resolved soon🤠
Dave6818 wrote:
My new Apple series 9 does not have the blood oxygen app enabled. Is there a free 3rd party app i can get?
No 3rd-party app, free or otherwise, can re-enable hardware that Apple has disabled.
I haven't checked lately but I'm sure there are fairly inexpensive O2 monitors (hardware) that sync with Health. That's certainly the case with blood pressure monitors.
Can you confirm this or refer me to an article that confirms this?
Axel F.
Hello Resrick2, I have the same question as Axel Foley. I have an Ultra2 and sure would hate to lose the O2 feature just for bring it in for some other unrelated maintenance issue.
It’s what happened to my parents in the Apple Store. Unfortunately if you ever have to send it in, then apparently they have to disable it
Resrick2 wrote:
It’s what happened to my parents in the Apple Store. Unfortunately if you ever have to send it in, then apparently they have to disable it
And someone else has reported the opposite.
My new Apple series 9 does not have the blood oxygen app enabled. Is there a free 3rd party app i can get?
Thank you
Is Apple removing blood oxygen sensor from Apple Watch Series 8?
