GoKawiilApple’s Health app got a pair of welcome improvements in iOS 26.4, and rumors indicate Apple has major upgrades coming soon in iOS 27.
Apple Health added two sleep-related features in iOS 26.4
Apple’s Health app got two new features in iOS 26.4, both of which involve sleep data.
First, under the ‘Highlights’ section in both the Sleep and Sleep Score screens, you’ll find a new bedtime highlight.
The bedtime highlight visualizes your recent bedtimes with a bar chart. You can see the last two weeks of bedtimes at once, along with two useful metrics: Average Bedtime and Last Night’s Bedtime.
Highlights are one of my favorite features in the Health app, so I’m always glad to see a new one.
Second, iOS 26.4 brought back an old sleep-related feature that used to be available, but got removed as a casualty of the Masimo patent battle.
Last summer, Apple relaunched its Blood Oxygen feature that had been removed due to the Masimo legal fight. But until iOS 26.4, that Blood Oxygen data was still missing from the Vitals screen in the Health app.
Now though, Blood Oxygen has returned to Vitals, so there are now five metrics being tracked by the feature: heart rate, respiratory rate, wrist temperature, blood oxygen, and sleep duration.
These improvements are welcome, but rumors indicate Apple has bigger Health upgrades coming in iOS 27.
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