The series 6 blood oxygen readout is so inaccurate, it may just do more harm than good. Sudden blood oxygen level drops have devastating and potentially fatal impacts on human health. These levels are also on a scale where a few percent variability could mean the difference between normal function, COPD, heavy smoking and critically low lung function due to COVID.
Apple jammed through this update seemingly without giving false measurements much consideration. I just did four measurements on my wrist within a couple of mins:
#1 - 89% - omg, am I hypoxic? Do I have COPD?
#2 - 98% - whew, I'm in the clear
#3 - 100% - wow, go me!
#4 - 94% - i give up
I have no tattoos, don't smoke, I'm in decent shape and have thankfully never been diagnosed with pulmonary or heart issues before. It's just so unreliable that it defeats the purpose of having such a sensor. Apple will quickly confuse their customers with noise, lose credibility and render the blood oxygen function useless.
Anyone else seeing crazy levels of variability like this??
Apple jammed through this update seemingly without giving false measurements much consideration. I just did four measurements on my wrist within a couple of mins:
#1 - 89% - omg, am I hypoxic? Do I have COPD?
#2 - 98% - whew, I'm in the clear
#3 - 100% - wow, go me!
#4 - 94% - i give up
I have no tattoos, don't smoke, I'm in decent shape and have thankfully never been diagnosed with pulmonary or heart issues before. It's just so unreliable that it defeats the purpose of having such a sensor. Apple will quickly confuse their customers with noise, lose credibility and render the blood oxygen function useless.
Anyone else seeing crazy levels of variability like this??