My AppleWatch 6 stopped giving me blood oxygen readings on June 3. The watch also seems to be not waking screen on lifting my wrist either, but will unlock my iPhone when wearing a mask. I have rebooted both watch and phone. I think the version of WatchOS is 7.6 (18U5523d) and my iOS is at 14.7 (18G5023c), both public betas but the watch was working fine on these builds. Any suggestions to get the watch working properly again? Is it a sensor issue?
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Blood Oxygen readings stop all of a sudden two days ago
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I may have figured it out. I just discovered that my watch is in theater mode, which I thought was always the case, but turning off theater mode seems to have fixed the screen waking up issue. Hopefully it fixes the blood oxygen issue too.
Coda. Blood Oxygen is working again. Must have been the theater mode even though I would swear it had been on all along.
this sensor isn't like the heart rate on my watch 7 or whatever the current number is. the heart gives readings regardless and often during the entire day BUT with the O2, no such deal, it seems only on demand and then the arm has to be just so. I stopped wearing it to bed as that seems not to work that way. I have a low hemoglobin level and the oxygen level is a heads-up things are not right here. I have both the theater and night mode turned off as the light isn't a problem , but the sensor only seems to work whenever or not at all.
I took a reading when I got up and it worked. But now six hours later that was the only reading. I have had a nap in the meantime and no reading. Makes it a bit worrysome if they get a glucose sensor that behaves the same only on demand and if the watch is just so on the arm.
I took a reading when I got up and it worked. But now six hours later that was the only reading. I have had a nap in the meantime and no reading. Makes it a bit worrysome if they get a glucose sensor that behaves the same only on demand and if the watch is just so on the arm.