Apple redesigns Health app around Apple Intelligence

Apple says the redesigned app adapts to health metrics across iPhone and iPad, with insights intended to support daily life and long-term wellbeing.[2] Its new Insights tab summarizes heart, sleep, readiness, fitness, vitals and cycle-tracking data throughout the day.[2] A For You section offers recommendations tailored to a person’s daily habits; Apple gives adjusting a wind-down routine after interrupted sleep as an example.[2] The app also pairs health data with educational videos and articles featuring Health app clinical experts.[2]

The Longevity tab analyzes long-term measures across heart health, sleep, mental wellbeing, movement, metabolic health, hearing and nutrition.[2] Apple says Health Age uses Apple Watch data, including VO2 max, resting heart rate, sleep and heart rate variability, to compare a user’s body with their chronological age.[2] Users can add clinical laboratory results such as A1c and LDL cholesterol.[2] At-home movement evaluations assess flexibility, strength, balance, movement mechanics and VO2 max using an iPhone camera and Apple Watch, with real-time audio and visual feedback.[2]

Apple says the movement evaluations use on-device, vision-based AI models and were developed with clinical experts.[2] The experience runs entirely on-device and does not record, store or share video, according to Apple.[3] The assessments are designed to work without specialized equipment.[2] Those details may matter to teams assessing how a health app can offer movement evaluations while handling sensitive data.[2][3]

Apple made the redesigned app available to developers in the iOS 27.3 developer beta on Tuesday, and said it would offer the app as a free software update by the end of the year.[1] Apple says language support will expand to global English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese.[2] Some of the options in the announcement were previously available on competing platforms such as Whoop and Oura, according to the Seattle Times.[4]