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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Oxygen masks deployed on a United flight from San Francisco to Maui last week.</li><li>A passenger said people on the plane were terrified, and he was planning what to do if it went down.</li></ul><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C8X9WHTS8sS/">Ryan Scott</a>, a chef based in Marin County, California, was heading to a Hawaii vacation with his family of four when he suddenly found himself in a scene out of a nightmare.Scott, his wife, and their two young daughters were flying <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/united-airlines-airbus-turned-back-engine-lining-fell-off-2024-6">United</a> from San Francisco to Maui on June 18 when, about two and a half hours in, the flight experienced minor <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/7-taken-hospital-after-severe-turbulence-united-airlines-flight-2024-3">turbulence</a> — nothing out of the ordinary, he said — and oxygen masks deployed from the ceiling."You could literally stop traffic with just the gasp of air in the plane," Scott told Business Insider, adding, "There was a lot of WTF and dead silence."Scott said his first thought was that they were not over land and wouldn't be near an airport to make an emergency landing."When you are halfway over the Pacific Ocean, the worst goes through your head," he said.Scott quickly started planning with his wife. "People are going to be very pushy if we go down. Here's the deal," he said to her. He told her to grab their licenses and put them in her pocket, noted where the closest door was and how to grab the seat cushions, and said he'd grab the girls when it was time to go.He said some passengers quickly started to panic, with at least one person near him hyperventilating."People were crying, people were very, very scared," he said.Scott's wife, Lesley Scott, said the flight attendants urgently asked passengers to put the oxygen masks on, which they thought meant this was not a mistake and that something was actually wrong.Scott said that his daughters had little headphones on and were on their iPads, so in order to prevent them from freaking out, his wife framed it as a game that they would now watch with the masks on too.He also said that he took a cue from the flight attendants, who remained seated during the ordeal and were calm and collected, adding that they deserved a lot of credit.They said about 20 minutes had passed without any updates. Eventually, the pilot came on and said they had descended to a lower altitude but to keep their masks on for now.Then they got another update that there had apparently been a "sensor malfunction" that caused the masks to fall, Scott said. He said the pilot said there was no need for a mask and that "he was going to climb back up, and then drinks were on United.""And that's when people were getting double vodka sodas," Scott added.Scott said after the flight the only communication he received from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/united-briefly-grounds-plane-after-30-passengers-fall-ill-2024-6">United</a> were emails asking how their service was.He said United had "dropped the ball," adding, "People felt like they were going to die, and that's the truth."In a statement provided to Business Insider, United said: "A small number of oxygen masks inadvertently deployed during the flight. There were no pressurization issues, our pilots followed appropriate procedures in a situation like this, and the aircraft landed safely as scheduled at Kahului Airport. "The aircraft, a Boeing 777, had more than 360 passengers on board.About a week prior, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oxygen-masks-inadvertently-deployed-on-united-airlines-flight-2024-6">oxygen masks also "inadvertently deployed"</a> on a transatlantic United flight from Paris to Washington, DC. The aircraft in that incident was also a Boeing 777.It's unclear why the masks "inadvertently deployed" in either case.Boeing did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular hours.Similarly, in that incident, United said the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/korean-air-boeing-plane-plummeted-13-people-in-hospital-2024-6">air pressure in the cabin</a> was normal and the flight landed safely.Scott said the experience was "like a weird dream" and that he feels blessed his family is safe.But he added that a lot of people on his flight "were clapping and kissing the ground when we got out, that's for sure."

People thought they might die when oxygen masks deployed on a United flight to Maui, passenger says

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An automated announcement told United passengers to put on oxygen masks during a Transatlantic flight.</li><li>A passenger on the flight told aviation news outlet Simple Flying that some people panicked.</li></ul>Dozens of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/united-briefly-grounds-plane-after-30-passengers-fall-ill-2024-6">United Airlines</a> passengers started to panic when an automated emergency announcement told them to put on oxygen masks, even though there wasn't any danger.The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/delayed-passengers-appeared-to-pass-out-95-degree-heat-wave-2024-6">Boeing 777</a> was flying from Paris to Washington, DC, last Wednesday when the unusual incident occurred.Those on board were instructed by a pre-recorded message to wait for <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/alaska-airlines-passengers-hit-by-debris-faulty-oxygen-masks-lawsuit-2024-1">oxygen masks</a> to fall from the ceiling and then put them on, <a target="_blank" href="https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-boeing-777-oxygen-mask-announcement/">Simple Flying</a> reported. Few, if any, masks actually deployed.A United Airlines spokesperson told Business Insider that "a small number of oxygen masks inadvertently deployed."Parker Pitman, a passenger on board the flight, told Simple Flying that he couldn't see any masks on the plane. He added that some people tried to force open the ceiling compartments in a panic."One person had a panic attack and ran to the aircraft door, presumably to open it," Pitman added. "None of the flight crew nor cabin crew had ever heard the announcement before, and it was a very odd situation."Travel news site <a target="_blank" href="https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2024/06/16/passengers-sent-into-panic-mode-on-united-airlines-flight-to-dulles-when-oxygen-masks-drop-due-to-false-decompression-alert">Paddle Your Own Kanoo</a> reported that flight attendants announced that they were struggling to contact the pilots.Passengers later learned that the 26-year-old aircraft wasn't in trouble after all, and the flight continued on to Washington, DC. Two days later, the plane made its next flight.The United spokesperson added, "The air pressure in the cabin was normal for the entire flight. The aircraft landed safely as scheduled, and customers deplaned normally."The airline has faced much scrutiny from regulators this year following a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/united-airlines-faces-tighter-scrutiny-after-several-safety-incidents-2024-3">string of safety incidents</a>, like a tire falling off a Boeing 777 and another plane veering off the runway.United was prevented from launching new routes while it was investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration. Last month, the airline indicated it had been allowed to restart such activities, but the FAA said its review was "ongoing," per the <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/united-airlines-faa-oversight-flights-planes-3b7073fa7ce8aa2fd74d76977ac30fc1">Associated Press</a>.

Oxygen masks were 'inadvertently' deployed, and an emergency announcement played on a United flight — even though everything was fine

<ul class="summary-list"><li>North Korea's latest spy satellite exploded midair, Pyongyang admitted on Monday.</li><li>Its state media reported that the problem was likely due to its new liquid oxygen and oil engine.</li></ul>North Korea said on Monday that its latest spy satellite launch failed, with its rocket exploding during the first stage of flight that evening.State media Korean Central News Agency cited an unnamed vice director of the country's National Aerospace Technology Administration, who said preliminary analysis pointed to problems with the rocket's new engine.The vice director said the mishap was caused by the "reliability of operation of the newly developed liquid oxygen and petroleum engine," per a translation by <a target="_blank" href="https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1716857207-698746446/kcna-report-on-accident-in-launch-of-military-reconnaissance-satellite/">KCNA Watch</a>, a US- and Seoul-based website that tracks North Korea's state media.The space official said his team would investigate other possible reasons for the failure.Pyongyang has <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-first-spy-satellite-ready-launch-dismal-space-record-2023-4">attempted three other satellite launches</a> in the last year, though two were confirmed to have failed. All were condemned by the US, Japan, and South Korea as provocations and are signs that North Korea has been able to circumvent sanctions to build its space program.In November, North Korea successfully launched its Malligyong-1 satellite and claims it still functions in orbit.South Korea assessed in February that the satellite is no longer communicating with the ground. However, several international space experts said that they <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-spy-satellite-malligyong1-movement-orbit-alive-failed-attempts-2024-2">observed signs of activity on the Malligyong-1 days later.</a>Monday's failed launch was an attempt to put the Malligyong-1-1 in space.Seoul said it detected fragments in North Korean waters about two minutes after the rocket was launched toward the Yellow Sea, <a target="_blank" href="https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&amp;Seq_Code=185701">national broadcaster KBS reported.</a>South Korean officials released a black-and-white video of the scuppered launch showing what appears to be a fireball in the sky. They said the footage was taken from an observation boat.The attempted space launch has been blasted by South Korea, which they said North Korea warned them about. Seoul <a target="_blank" href="https://www.mnd.go.kr/cop/kookbang/kookbangIlboView.do?siteId=mnd&amp;pageIndex=1&amp;findType=&amp;findWord=&amp;categoryCode=dema0003&amp;boardSeq=38833&amp;startDate=&amp;endDate=&amp;id=mnd_020101000000">scrambled 20 jet fighters, including F-35As, as a precaution.</a>Japan also condemned the launch, saying it lodged a strong complaint to North Korea through its embassy in Beijing."A few minutes after launch, it disappeared over the Yellow Sea," Japanese Defense Minister <a target="_blank" href="https://www.mod.go.jp/j/press/kisha/2024/0528a_r.html">Minoru Kihara</a> said of the rocket. "Therefore, we presume that no object was launched into space."Kihara added that North Korea has said it intends to launch three more satellites this year.The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.pacom.mil/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/3788148/usindopacom-statement-on-dprk-launch/">US Indo-Pacific Command</a> called the launch "a brazen violation of multiple unanimous UN Security Council resolutions, raises tensions, and risks destabilizing the security situation in the region and beyond."It further warned that North Korea appeared to have launched the satellite using technology from its international ballistics missile programs.North Korea is <a target="_blank" href="https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/north-korea-sanctions">sanctioned by the US</a> and its allies, with a focus on limiting its nuclear weapons and space programs. But South Korea has been warning that Pyongyang is still able to pull off satellite launches <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-received-russian-aid-satellite-launch-south-korea-lawmakers-2023-11-23/#:~:text=North%20Korea%20received%20Russian%20aid%20for%20satellite%20launch%20%2DSouth%20Korea%20lawmakers,-By%20Hyonhee%20Shin&amp;text=SEOUL%2C%20Nov%2023%20(Reuters),citing%20the%20country's%20intelligence%20agency.">with Russia's help.</a>The US and Ukraine have accused North Korea of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-military-spy-chief-russia-reliant-on-north-korean-arms-2024-1">supplying Russia with artillery ammunition</a> and say Pyongyang has been receiving raw materials, food, and assistance from Russian experts. North Korea has <a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=russia+denies+north+korea&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enSG1094SG1094&amp;oq=russia+denies+north+korea&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMg0IAxAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IBBAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IBRAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IBhAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMgoIBxAAGIAEGKIE0gEIMjMyN2owajSoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8">denied its participation in any arms exchange with Moscow.</a>

North Korea said its new liquid oxygen engine caused the downfall of its latest spy satellite and blew it up in midair

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Apple is ready to nix a blood oxygen feature from its new Apple Watch models.</li><li>Some of Apple's smartwatches have been the subject of a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-masimo-beeper-weakness-watch-saga-2023-12">patent dispute with medtech company Masimo</a>.</li></ul>Apple has found a new workaround for the import ban on its <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/best-apple-watch">latest Apple Watch models</a>.The company will remove blood oxygen functionality from its Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 if its <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-15/apple-to-remove-watch-blood-oxygen-app-to-avoid-ban-masimo-says?srnd=undefined">appeal of the import ban is unsuccessful</a>, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ceo-harder-to-buy-apple-watch-christmas-2023-12">Medical device maker Masimo</a> has claimed certain Apple Watch models infringe on its blood oxygen monitoring technology patents. In a Monday filing, which has not been made public, Masimo said US Customs and Border Protection "decided that Apple's redesign falls outside the scope" of the US International Trade Commission's import ban on the Series 9 and Ultra 2, per Bloomberg.Masimo also reportedly said in the filing that Apple told US Customs and Border Protection that watches with the redesign "definitively do not contain pulse oximetry functionality.""Apple's claim that its redesigned watch does not contain pulse oximetry is a positive step toward accountability," a Masimo spokesperson said in a statement.Apple told Business Insider the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-watch-series-9-ultra-2-best-buy-walmart-2023-12">Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2</a> are still available with the blood oxygen tool. The company expects the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to rule as early as Tuesday on its motion for a stay for a full appeal period of likely at least a year.The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-watches-us-ban-for-sale-retailers-amazon-target-2023-12">import ban on Apple's latest smartwatches</a> initially took effect on December 26. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit temporarily paused it the next day, allowing <a target="_blank" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/apple-resumes-sale-of-watch-series-9-ultra-2-1032930088">Apple to resume sales of the watch models</a> while it continues to fight the ban.

Apple plans to drop blood oxygen feature on smartwatches to get around import ban

<ul class="summary-list"><li>NASA's Juno mission found that Jupiter's icy moon Europa produces 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours.</li><li>It's enough to keep a million people breathing for a day but is much less than previously thought.</li></ul>About 400 million miles away, floating in deep space, is a water world called <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/juno-snaps-new-images-flyby-past-jupiters-icy-moon-europa-2022-9">Europa</a> that produces 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours. That's enough oxygen to keep a million people alive for a day, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-juno-mission-measures-oxygen-production-at-europa">NASA reported</a> this week.However, these new estimates, published in the peer-reviewed journal <a target="_blank" href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=2b2af1c3fb9f2cf2557d55cb451349e12706b76d91ded14f851cd4485ee0b707&amp;postID=65eb72bb894bac29c419ee82&amp;postSlug=oxygen-europa-life-surface-ocean-subsurface-earth-juno-mission-jupiter-2024-3&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41550-024-02206-x">Nature Astronomy</a>, aren't meant to determine how many people could inhabit this moon of Jupiter. They're helping scientists figure out whether, or not, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-jupiter-oceanic-moon-europa-radioactive-glow-2020-11">Europa hosts life of its own</a>."We think that Europa is the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/europa-moon-may-have-an-earth-like-ocean-2016-5">most likely place</a> to look beyond Earth for life today," said Curt Niebur, NASA's lead scientist for outer planet exploration who wasn't involved with the study.<div type="image" title="Europa" height="1125" width="1275" msid="108340506" hostid="261" sizebytes="74676"></div>If life forms exist on Europa, they might look like microbes, or perhaps something more complex, <a target="_blank" href="https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/europa/facts/">according to NASA</a>. But they wouldn't be visible from the surface, which is a frozen desert.They'd most likely exist in the moon's vast underground ocean that may contain as much as <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/water-space-volume-planets-moons-2016-10">twice the amount of water as Earth.</a>While <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-moon-europa-ocean-water-plume-evidence-2018-5">water is one key ingredient for life</a>, as we know it, it's not the only one. There's a laundry list of other chemicals that scientists are looking for — oxygen being one of them.<div type="image" title="Diagram of Europa's inner structure." height="665" width="700" msid="108340507" hostid="261" sizebytes="41178"></div>Now, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/juno-jupiter-engine-safe-mode-issues-2016-10">NASA's Juno spacecraft</a>, which is currently flying around Jupiter and its moons, has taken the most precise estimate of Europa's oxygen production to date. And it turns out to be a lot less than we thought.The latest estimate of 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours is more than 86 times less than some previous estimates. And this new data may call Europa's habitability into question.<h2>How Europa produces oxygen</h2>Oxygen production looks very different on Europa than on Earth. Whereas <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-amazon-rainforest-is-important-life-support-is-burning-2019-8">Earth gets its oxygen from photosynthesis</a>, Europa's is a result of its parent planet Jupiter.Jupiter <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasas-juno-has-completed-its-five-year-journey-to-jupiter-heres-what-the-spacecraft-will-teach-us-about-the-gas-giant-2016-7">emits powerful radiation</a> that showers Europa with high-energy particles. These particles then interact with frozen water ice (H2O) on the moon's surface.<div type="image" title="jupiter radiation belt" height="552" width="1111" msid="108340508" hostid="261" sizebytes="10282"></div>The interaction splits the H2O molecules apart into hydrogen and oxygen gas. But where that oxygen goes is the big question. Some of it may get stuck in the ice, some may escape to space, and some may travel downward into Europa's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/earth-water-ice-volume-versus-planets-moons-2016-11">subsurface ocean</a>.If enough oxygen reaches underground, that would mean Europa's ocean has one of the critical ingredients for life as we know it. "But that's a big question mark for us," since the oxygen can end up in so many different places, Niebur said.<div type="image" title="europa ocean" height="610" width="768" msid="108340509" hostid="261" sizebytes="53308"></div>What <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stunning-images-photos-jupiter-nasa-juno-mission">NASA's Juno mission</a> has done is shed more light on the total amount of oxygen that Europa's surface generates. It's still not clear, however, how much, if any, seeps into the underground ocean.<h2>Measuring oxygen on Europa</h2>To measure how much oxygen Europa's surface generates, scientists used the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) instrument on board Juno.JADE was designed to measure charged particles in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/animation-map-shows-jupiter-baffling-heat-may-come-from-auroras-2022-10">Jupiter's auroral regions</a>. But when Juno flew by Europa in September 2022, JADE successfully measured the charged particles shed from the moon's atmosphere for the very first time.Using the JADE data, scientists estimated the total amount of hydrogen (not oxygen) gas in Europa's thin atmosphere. Since there is one oxygen atom for every two hydrogen atoms in a water molecule, scientists could use the hydrogen gas data to then calculate the amount of oxygen generated on the surface.<div type="image" title="Graphic of Europa" height="1272" width="1000" msid="108340510" hostid="261" sizebytes="144114"></div>"This has really refined and narrowed down our understanding of how much oxygen is made in the surface," said study lead author Jamey Szalay, a space physics researcher at Princeton University."But we don't know how much of it leaves the surface and how much of it makes its way to the ocean," Szalay added. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-plans-to-find-alien-life-next-decade-2019-11#nasa-is-planning-to-take-a-closer-look-at-that-ocean-with-the-europa-clipper-mission-which-could-launch-as-early-as-2023-8">NASA's next Europa mission, Clipper</a>, could bring us closer to answering that question.<h2>An ongoing search for the possibility of life</h2>NASA's Europa Clipper mission is scheduled to launch in October 2024. Its primary objective is to determine whether or not Europa is habitable.<div type="image" title="Clipper orbiting Europa" height="7352" width="8352" msid="108340511" hostid="261" sizebytes="1561178"></div>Clipper will be equipped with instruments that should help <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-underwater-rover-hunt-alien-life-on-ocean-worlds-2019-11">reveal Europa's inner structure</a>, such as its subsurface radar. With this tool, NASA scientists will peer down tens of miles below the crust to identify features that could help determine whether oxygen is reaching the subsurface ocean, Niebur told BI."Clipper is an incredibly exciting mission, and it has important science objectives that will likely revolutionize our understanding of the ice shell, the subsurface ocean, and how they interact with each other," Szalay said.<div type="image" title="Europa Clipper" height="5829" width="7591" msid="108340512" hostid="261" sizebytes="2823370"></div>While finding out whether Europa's subsurface ocean contains oxygen, or not, would improve our understanding of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-water-vapor-jupiter-moon-europa-2019-11">the moon's habitability</a>, it won't automatically confirm whether life exists, or could exist, on Europa."The amount of oxygen available on Europa is not a binary switch you flip to decide whether or not life could be present," Niebur explained. He pointed out that life existed on Earth for about <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/earth-rotation-slowing-helped-bacteria-produce-oxygen-2021-8">1.5 billion years without oxygen</a>. If it could happen here, it could happen on this faraway moon, too.As for the Juno mission, Szalay will continue working through the data they retrieved during this Europa flyby."For years to come, we're going to be digging through this and learning everything we can," he said.

Jupiter's moon Europa generates enough oxygen to keep a million people alive for a day, NASA says 

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Apple must stop selling its Series 9 and Ultra 2 watches with blood oxygen monitoring functionality.</li><li>Apple has been in an ongoing patent dispute with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ceo-harder-to-buy-apple-watch-christmas-2023-12">medtech company Masimo</a> over the feature.</li></ul>There's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-rough-start-year-two-downgrades-apple-watch-iphone-sales-2024-1">more bad news for Apple</a> this January.The tech giant, which has been in an ongoing <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-masimo-beeper-weakness-watch-saga-2023-12">patent dispute with the medtech company Masimo</a> over its smartwatches' blood oxygen feature, will have to stop selling the Series 9 and Ultra 2 watches with the monitoring functionality — again — after a US court ruling.The company had already started <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-watch-ban-series-9-ultra-not-available-online-store-2023-12">pulling the watches from shelves</a> in mid-December following a decision by the International Trade Commission last year, which found that the Ultra 2 and Series 9 violated Masimo's patent. The ruling, which the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-watch-ban-going-ahead-us-biden-refuses-intervene-2023-12">Biden administration decided not to veto,</a> bars Apple from importing the watches from outside the US. The models are and will still be available to buyers outside the US.Apple had gotten a brief respite in late December when the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted the company's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-wins-emergency-pause-watch-sales-import-ban-appeals-court-2023-12#:~:text=Apple%20catches%20a%20big%20break,latest%20Apple%20Watches%20%E2%80%94%20for%20now&amp;text=A%20US%20appeals%20court%20granted,company's%20online%20and%20physical%20stores.">emergency request to temporarily pause the import ban</a> from going into effect — allowing it to sell the watches again.On Wednesday, however, that court denied Apple's request for a longer pause intended to last throughout the appeal period of the ITC ban. It will now, again, have to stop selling the two watch models that feature the contentious blood oxygen function until the appeal is resolved."We strongly disagree with the USITC decision and resulting orders," Apple told Business Insider. The company has argued that the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-appeals-watch-sales-ban-irreparable-harm-stays-in-place-2023-12">import ban will cause "irreparable harm"</a> to its business.The news doesn't mean Apple won't be able to sell modified versions of the watches. It has found a software <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-drop-blood-oxygen-feature-avoid-watch-import-ban-2024-1">workaround for the import ban</a>, redesigning the Series 9 and Ultra 2 to remove any blood oxygen functionality features. "Pending the appeal, Apple is taking steps to comply with the ruling while ensuring customers have access to Apple Watch with limited disruption," Apple said. "These steps include introducing a version of Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in the United States without the Blood Oxygen feature. There is no impact to Apple Watch units previously purchased that include the Blood Oxygen feature."The redesigned watches will be available to US customers starting January 18th. Owners of the redesigned smartwatches will still see the blood oxygen monitoring icon on their watch, Apple told BI. If they tap on it, though, they'll see a message telling them the app is no longer available.The company won't be able to sell its smartwatches with the blood oxygen feature in the US, at least until its appeal of the import ban is resolved, a period that Apple expects will last at least a year.

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