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Blood Oxygen returns to Apple Watch, iOS 26 beta 6, Apple tabletop robots

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Benjamin and Chance react to the surprise announcement that the Apple Watch Blood Oxygen feature is coming back for US users, via a phone relay workaround. Also, Apple released the latest beta of iOS 26, featuring some fun new animations and even more Liquid Glass refinements. Plus, there’s more speculation about the low-cost MacBook and more details about Apple’s future ventures into home robotics. 

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Chance Miller

Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

It's been a busy morning, Mayo, a surprisingly busy morning, I think.

0:04.5

Definitely a surprise.

0:05.8

Definitely a surprise.

0:06.7

So Apple has announced that later today, so later on Thursday as we're recording this,

0:11.9

it will release a software update for iPhone and Apple Watch that brings a redesigned

0:17.0

blood oxygen feature for Apple Watch users in the United States.

0:21.9

We're 20 months basically since Apple stopped selling the blood oxygen feature in the U.S.

0:28.7

on the Apple Watch.

0:29.5

That's the Series 9, the Series 10, and the Ultra 2.

0:32.7

I don't think we need to get into the details because we've talked about it so much,

0:35.5

but it's the patent battle with Massimo, the health technology company, and the International Trade Commission ruled that Apple

0:41.6

infringed on a Mossimo patent, blocked it from selling Blood Oxygen Censor Apple Watches in the

0:47.3

US, and that's where we've been until today. Yeah, and Apple sells the same hardware as they

0:52.7

sell in every other part of the world, but the feature is disabled.

0:56.7

So the hardware that you buy right now, if you buy an Apple, it's 10 in the US, has a blood oxygen sensor inside it.

1:03.3

It's just disabled.

1:04.5

And it's interesting because Apple had never actually said that and still hasn't actually said that.

1:10.7

But that's always been what we've

1:12.6

basically known and speculated, but with today's announcement that now we know for sure that,

1:17.1

yes, the sensor is there. The difference in how Apple is skirting around the ITC ruling with this

1:22.6

new redesigned blood oxygen feature is that the measurements are happening on the watch,

1:27.2

but all of the calculations are happening on the watch, but all of the

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