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in this area, moving away from trying to build an accurate blood pressure monitor to a simpler one that can establish a baseline and detect unusually high blood pressure, similar to how the temperature sensor works now. Unfortunately, it seems it’s had trouble getting even this working to a level where it would be useful, and the thinner design of the Apple Watch Series 10 may have exacerbated the problem. Apple is reportedly facing a different obstacle with its proposed sleep apnea feature due to the legal challenges around the blood oxygen technology required to make it work. However, from what Gurman says, it sounds like this is strictly a legal obstacle that it might be able to overcome by September. It could also announce the feature with a delayed release or take the unusual step of only releasing it outside the United States, where it’s still allowed to sell Apple Watches with fully functioning blood oxygen sensors.The only other significant health sensor, blood glucose monitoring, remains a moonshot project that we won’t see anytime soon. Apple has already been hard at it for well over a decade, and while it’s reportedly made some significant progress, it’s still years away from a working solution. With this year’s Apple Watch Series 10 not getting any significant changes, it’s also possible Apple might not make a big deal out of the tenth anniversary. Gurman suggests it could wait until next year since the first Apple Watch didn’t go on sale until 2015. However, Apple could also choose to mark the occasion more quietly in either case; as much as Gurman says Apple “likes to commemorate product anniversaries when it can,” we really only have the iPhone X as an example, and that was a celebration of Apple’s number one flagship product — a device that, as Tim Cook said at the time, “revolutionized the decade of technology and changed the world in the process.”