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Apple’s fix for the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales ban could be disabling a useless feature
Apple is readying a more permanent fix for the ITC ruling that ended up temporarily blocking sales of its Apple Watch Ultra 2 and Series 9 models in the
The proposed solution, discovered in a brief legal filing (via 9to5Mac) by the lawyers representing Apple’s opposition Masimo in the dispute, involves disabling via software entirely the pulse oximetry features on models of the devices going forward — a change which should honestly have nil impact on anyone who ends up buying one of these in future. The feature ostensibly provides a reading of your blood oxygen levels, though anyone who’s had much experience with Apple’s implementation of the sensor knows that it’s hardly accurate, and not something that you can really use for deriving any genuinely useful insights about your health. Blood oxygen levels arguably got their breakout moment in the general public consciousness as a key indicator of when COVID cases went from bad to worse, requiring emergency medical intervention.
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