Apple brings back Blood Oxygen feature to Apple Watch, but there’s a catch

Apple on Thursday announced that it is bringing a redesigned Oxygen tracking feature to Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users in the United States. Notably, the tech giant had been banned from importing Apple Watches with that feature by an International Trade Commission ruling in early 2024, and it is now bypassing the restriction with a clever workaround.

The Cupertino-based tech giant will calculate and measure the blood oxygen data on the iPhone that the Apple Watch is paired with, and users will not be able to view this…