Apple’s redesigned Health app is already running inside the first iOS 27.2 beta, and the proof is a bug Apple logged against it. The beta release notes posted on September 16 carry a Health entry under Known Issues: “Personalized summaries may not generate as expected in the Insights tab. (186964423)” The Health app insights and…
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The iOS 27 Backup Setting That Decides Whether You Keep Your Health Data
One setting decides whether a computer backup made before iOS 27 keeps your Health and Activity data or leaves it behind. Apple’s own instructions for backing up with a Mac say plainly that saving that data requires turning on encryption and setting a password before you click Back Up Now. Health and Activity data recorded…
How to Set Up Cycle Tracking and Perimenopause Notifications on Apple Watch Series 12
Cycle Tracking for Apple Watch Series 12 is set up in the Health app on iPhone: tap Search, then Cycle Tracking, then Get Started. Once it is on, you log a period from the Cycle Tracking app on the watch, and the perimenopause and menopause notifications Apple added for watchOS 27 arrive with the free…
Apple's New Health Features: Which Need an Apple Watch, Which Need an iPhone, and Which Need Both
Apple spread its new health features across three places today: the Health Sensing System in Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, watchOS 27 for existing watches, and a redesigned Health app arriving with iOS 27 on September 14. Some features need only an iPhone, some need only a new watch, and the most talked-about…
Apple's New Movement Evaluations: Test VO2 Max, Balance and Strength With Your iPhone Camera
Apple’s redesigned Health app adds five movement evaluations, covering flexibility, strength, balance, movement mechanics and VO2 max, that use the iPhone camera together with Apple Watch. Apple says the tests were developed with clinicians and run entirely on device, with no video recorded, stored or shared. The evaluations feed the movement health category of the…
Apple Health Labs: 50+ Biomarkers for $119 at Quest Diagnostics, How It Works
Apple’s redesigned Health app adds a Labs feature that lets US users book and buy a blood panel covering more than 50 biomarkers for $119 at about 2,000 Quest Diagnostics locations. It arrives with iOS 27 on September 14 as part of the Health app’s new Longevity tab. Labs sits alongside the new Longevity tab,…
Apple Health Age Explained: How Apple Watch Compares Your Metrics With Your Actual Age
Health Age is a new measure in Apple’s redesigned Health app that shows how your health metrics track against your chronological age. It draws on four readings from Apple Watch, VO2 max, resting heart rate, sleep and heart rate variability, and lets you add lab values such as A1c and LDL cholesterol. The feature is…
Apple's Redesigned Health App: Longevity Tab, Health Age and Insights Explained
Apple has redesigned the Health app for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, adding a Longevity tab that tracks seven categories of long-term data, a Health Age comparison, an Insights tab with real-time summaries, and camera-based movement evaluations. The new app runs on Apple Intelligence devices and launches in US English first. The redesign was announced…