The Health app was created to help organize your important health information and make it easy to access in a central and secure place. With the release of iOS 15, were adding features to empower you even more. There are new ways to share data with your loved ones and healthcare team, a metric to assess your walking steadiness and risk of falling, and trend analysis to help you understand changes in yourhealth.
Health puts your important information at your fingertips, including your health records, labs, activity, sleep, and more.
It collects data from your iPhone, the built-in sensors on your Apple Watch, compatible medical devices, and apps that use HealthKit.
The Health app is built to keep your data secure and protect your privacy. Your data stays on your device and is encrypted. And you are always in control of your health information.
Having a second set of eyes on your health data can give you peace of mind. With new sharing features, the Health app lets you do just that by offering powerful new ways to stay connected to your loved ones and provide useful information to doctors.
Whether its with a family member or a caregiver, health sharing lets you share any information stored in the Health app. So its easy for them to see things like mobility, activity data, and trends.
You can receive important notifications about your loved ones health and view things like their activity, mobility data, heart rate data, and trends in the Sharing tab.
Youll get notifications for any significant changes that are identified in shared data categories, such as a steep decline in activity, as well as gradual trends like an improvement in blood pressure. You can also receive the same alerts as a loved one, such as heart rate and irregular rhythm notifications.
When you share your information, you have complete control over what you share and the people and institutions you share with. And you can make changes at any time.
To help you have more meaningful discussions with your healthcare team, now you can share health data including activity data, heart data, cycle tracking data, heart health notifications, and falls.
Sharing data from the Health app can lead to richer, better-informed conversations with your doctor and healthcare team. For example, if youre concerned about a particular area of your health, you can share data from that category along with information from your everyday life, like your activity and heart data.
Using their own health records system, your healthcare team can review the data that you share. Access to this information can help doctors have a more holistic view of your health.
The more informed you are about your health, the more empowered you are to take action. The Health app helps you make sense of your health data. So you can see everything from how active you are to how much sleep youre getting, and do whats best for you.
Highlights uses machine learning to serve up what matters most to you, like your steps, sleep, orvitals.
Interactive charts let you view your health data over time and dive in for a deeper look. For example, you can review your exercise activity for a day, week, or month or see your heart rate during a specific workout.
New advanced trend analysis lets you see how health metrics like blood glucose, heart rate, and respiratory rate change over time. And you can get notifications when new trends are detected.
Prioritize your sleep by managing your sleep schedule, creating a bedtime routine, and seeing how consistently youre meeting your sleep goals.
With an Apple Watch, you can track metrics from your sleep like blood oxygen levels, heart rate, time asleep, and now sleeping respiratory rate.1
The Health app can incorporate data from tens of thousands of third-party apps that are designed to promote healthier habits everything from nutrition to meditation to fitness.
The Health app can give you app recommendations for health categories that interest you. Data collected from apps is stored alongside data from your Apple Watch and information youve logged directly on your iPhone. Everything is built to keep your data secure and protect your privacy.
The sensors in your Apple Watch and iPhone capture data that reveals mobility metrics like walking asymmetry to give you a better overall view of your health.
In the Health app, you can view your low-range cardio fitness level, walking speed, how fast you climb and descend stairs, and an estimate of your six-minute walk test, giving you easy access to these important health metrics.
Walking Steadiness is a metric that assesses your balance, strength, and gait. Now you can get notifications if your walking steadiness is low or very low and youre at an increased risk of falling.
Traditional methods of assessing balance, stability, and risk of falling include a questionnaire and a visit to a specialty clinic. Now you can get an assessment of your walking steadiness as OK, low, or very low just by carrying your iPhone. And you can get recommendations for exercises that help improve your walking steadiness.
Cycle Tracking lets you log your period, record symptoms like cramps, and track cycle factors like lactation. It can also help predict when your next period or fertility window will begin.2
The Health app creates simple graphical charts so you can quickly review cycle length and variation. It also now uses heart rate data from Apple Watch to improve its predictions.
Your body is a complex system. The Health app helps make understanding it a bit simpler. With it you can organize and access a vast array of health records including allergies, labs, and immunizations and sort through it all with ease.
View a timeline of your health history that includes lab results, immunizations, and medications, even if the data is from different health institutions.
To help you understand and manage your lab results, you can receive highlights, get context for results, and pin labs that matter most to you.
For the most common labs, youll see information that gives you more context, like what an acronym means, what the lab measures, and how the lab result broadly applies to health. Highlights show how your lab results have changed and if they are within expected ranges.
Institutions will be able to issue verifiable lab results and immunization records, including COVID-19 test results and vaccinations, that can be downloaded and stored in the Health app.
You can securely share verifiable immunizations and lab results with apps to facilitate flights, workplace screenings, event screenings, and more.
Create an emergency Medical ID card that allows first responders to access your critical medical information from the Lock Screen.
A single organ donor can save as many as eight lives. Make an impact by signing up for the Donate Life America registry directly from the Healthapp.
As we introduce and expand ways to share your health data, privacy continues to be at the core. All of our health features are built to keep your data secure and protect your privacy. Your health data stays on your device and is encrypted. And you are always in control.
The Health app lets you keep all your health information securely in one place on your device.
When your phone is locked with a passcode, all your health and fitness data in the Health app other than your Medical ID is encrypted. Your health data stays up to date across all your devices automatically using iCloud, where it is encrypted while in transit and at rest. Apps that access HealthKit are required to have a privacy policy, so be sure to review these policies before providing apps with access to your health and fitness data.
You decide which information is in the Health app, which apps can access your data, and who you share your data with. Apple never sees your data.
Apple Watch and iPhone are ushering in a new era of health research.You can contribute to groundbreaking studies by sharing health data.
Sleeping Respiratory Rate feature measurements are not intended for medical use, including self-diagnosis or consultation with a doctor, and are only designed for general fitness and wellnesspurposes.
The Cycle Tracking app and predicted fertile windows should not be used as a form of birth control or to support conception. Data from the Cycle Tracking app should not be used to diagnose a health condition.
Features are subject to change. Some features, applications, and services may not be available in all regions or all languages.
Not all features are available on all devices.
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