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Apps with HealthKit integration start appearing in App Store following iOS 8.0.2 fixes

After a series of botched updates, which meant HealthKit apps could not launch alongside iOS 8’s release, Apple has finally started allowing apps that integrate with the Health app into the App Store. The first of many is FitPort, which acts as a replacement dashboard for Health information, with all data being synced back into the Health database.

On opening the app, the Health permissions screen opens which asks users to individually enable access to health statistics. This allows users to be very selective about what information they share with third-party apps. Users have to explicitly enable read and write capabilities for every health data type the app wants to integrate. Just like asking for location access, this sheet is presented by the OS, meaning all apps benefit from this level of privacy.

HealthKit apps were originally supposed to return to the store with iOS 8.0.1, but given the cellular and Touch ID bugs with the update for iPhone 6 users, Apple had to pull the update. Now that 8.0.2 is out, Apple has finally allowed HealthKit apps to return to the store as shown by the appearance of FitPort.

It’s unclear how FitPort managed to ‘jump the queue’ ahead of the bigger players, but no doubt an onslaught of HealthKit updates will follow in the coming hours and days.

9to5Mac will have full coverage of the updated HealthKit apps as they appear on the App Store.

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  1. Benji (@f88) - 9 years ago

    My iPhone 6 lost service and TouchID after updated from iOS 8 to 8.0.2

    • Jörg Wißemann - 9 years ago

      mine didn’t

    • Velayutham Mathivannan - 9 years ago

      no problem with my iPhone 6, works fine.

    • michaele11111 - 9 years ago

      Don’t believe you. You’re just trolling.

      • rbmerkley - 9 years ago

        He may be trolling, but there are several reports of this and other problems in the Apple Support forum.

      • geuseppi - 9 years ago

        @rbmerkley Then there are a lot of trolls hitting the Apple support forum. 8.0.1 had issues with touch ID and carrier connection. 8.0.2 did not.

  2. Hal J Chan - 9 years ago

    Using a Misfit Shine, I would love to see the app with full support of HealthKit.

  3. paul55br - 9 years ago

    Lots of possibilities! Exciting!

  4. robertsm76 - 9 years ago

    Calories lost? Am I missing where calories lost are tracked on the health app? I see active calories and resting calories are listed under a category but does the health app not track calories lost?

    • ttuutt - 9 years ago

      Add them together that is your total calorie lost for the time period.

  5. spriguy21 (@spriguy21) - 9 years ago

    How does 1 update getting recalled quantify as a “series of botched updates”?! 8.0.1…

    • Zac Hall - 9 years ago

      HealthKit getting removed the morning of iOS 8.0 launch at the surprise of HealthKit developers who had their apps removed from sale at no fault of their own is a pretty big qualifier.

      • PMZanetti - 9 years ago

        Definitely no small deal.

        I’d be really curious to find out anything you guys can dig up on iCloud Photo Library….clearly Apple has decided its not ready for prime time (hence the ‘beta’ label)…but even the beta was not delivered to most who updated to iOS 8, and it was suspiciously removed from all iOS 8 related marketing on Apple.com.

        Anything you guys hear about that would be great. In fact, even an article acknowledging that this did in fact happen would be nice. Strangely, it seems to be something most Apple-related blogs have chosen to ignore outright.

      • Chris Paradies - 9 years ago

        I was curious about the iCloud Photo Library as well. I’m curious if it’s truly not ready, or a matter of iCloud Drive compatibility. It appears that only iOS 8 and Yosemite are able to access it, and with Yosemite not out yet, it wouldn’t make much sense for people’s photos to be uploaded to a source that they could not then get in iPhoto (soon to be Photos on Yosemite), for the next month.

      • puggsly - 9 years ago

        We are still talking about a week day delay from the release of iOS 8 and even less from the release of iPhone 6. It would seem much more honest to say one day after a botched update, Apple delivers on it’s promise of health kit only a week after the release of iOS 8.

  6. Xavier Poirot (@dalaen) - 9 years ago

    Is it normal for M7/M8 sources to be now broken in two sources: Health (seemingly old data?) and My iPhone (seemingly fresh data?)

    If anyone had tested the beta and found this behavior over time, it’d be great to share!

    • Kevin Neal - 9 years ago

      I notice that, up until 8.0.2 it had been recording my steps at my iPhone and putting it on the graph, since 8.0.2 the old data is now recorded as health and is not on the graph anymore

      • Xavier Poirot (@dalaen) - 9 years ago

        Well it still shows on the graph here (just kill and restart the app, it’s like it’s reconstructing the chart on first launch after the update).

        Though the chart is buggy if you display the data samples (which you can have dozen of thousands of after barely a few days) and then back to the Dashboard.

  7. Kevin Neal - 9 years ago

    kinda annoying that the first app just replicates the health app instead of being one that is a source of data

    • ttuutt - 9 years ago

      Yep and it is 2 bucks.

    • hmurchison - 9 years ago

      Agreed. I saw the $1.99 price and passed. I need to get acclimated with how data is presented in Health app before moving to some new app that provides the same info in a different layout. I may not like how this 3rd party app displays data. but I won’t know until I get a lot of data into Health and see how easy it is to review.

  8. Tara Neier (@eleuker) - 9 years ago

    Is that why the “Health & Fitness” category in the app store is a blank page?

  9. dustinmburleson - 9 years ago

    The MyFitnessPal update has hit the store.

  10. rbmerkley - 9 years ago

    I downloaded iOS 8.0.2 using iTunes. The upgrade failed and left my iPhone 6 in Recovery Mode. Every time I attempted to restore my iPhone, it failed. I eventually had to use TinyUmbrella to force my iPhone 6 out of Recovery Mode.
    My father’s iPad 2 had the same issue when he did an over-the-air update.
    I don’t think 8.0.2 is truly read yet.

  11. PMZanetti - 9 years ago

    No doubt about that onslaught?

    There hasn’t been much of an onslaught of iOS 8 apps taking advantage of the new APIs. The few and far between Apps that have used Extensions, Touch ID, and Widgets are mostly buggy/ill conceived. Have seen nothing with HomeKit.

    But I guess we can assume for now that there is an onslaught of HealthKit apps just waiting to launch….

  12. Carrot Fit is live as well.

  13. All my HealthKit Data was erased after updating to iOS 8.0.2. Anyone Else??

  14. Landy (@Soydepr) - 9 years ago

    i only see the health icon on screen lock when at apple stores, why not other places?

  15. terryzxz - 9 years ago

    Mine show nothing at all even though I have several apps showing they are connected. Also in the Apple app, when I turn on something and go back a page and then look at it again it is off. Nothing stays on. I’m not very happy with HealthKit and I see why some apps like FitBit do not want to join. This is at best an Alpha Release.

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