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Stephen Warwick

Don't break your new Apple Watch — replacement Series 9 and Ultra 2 models could lack blood oxygen features if you break yours

Apple Watch Series 9.

Apple’s ongoing patent dispute with health company Masimo over the blood oxygen feature in the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, the company’s best Apple Watch models, has thrown up another potential wrinkle for users who already own either device. 

In mid-January, Apple was forced to disable the blood oxygen monitoring feature in both of its flagship Apple Watch models after a court denied Apple’s request to halt a ban on sales and imports of the offending models, issued by the U.S. International Trade Commission. 

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