Now that Apple is 8.0.2 rolled out and we’re all relatively stable with a Healthkit-enabled OS, Apple is giving us a new section of the App Store for health-related apps.
Experience an entirely new approach to wellness where your fitness app can talk to your calorie tracker, your doctor can be automatically notified of updates to your health data, and great apps work together for a healthier you. This handpicked collection highlights the best fitness, nutrition, and medical apps customized for iOS 8.
Red prices on pink background? They must have moved that Maps launch and iOS 8.0.1 guy over to design.
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Wow
Fitbit where are you? Time to step up to the plate.
Funny, no HomeKit section?
Sure not much being said about HomeKit. Was hoping we would have seen some hardware at the last event that supported it. Oh well.
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Apple is raising the bar in the health tracking arena. Here is a suite of apps where “…fitness app can talk to your calorie tracker, your doctor can be automatically notified of updates to your health data, and great apps work together for a healthier you.”
Still don’t see why the Health app isn’t available on the iPad. We get a worthless Tips app you can’t delete, but no health app.
The Health app is t that useful untill the Aplle Watch gets real health tracking features or Apple has more then scales and blood pressure monitors in the wellness section of its online store.
HealtKit, HomeKit and CarPlay are disappointments so far with basically no hardware to speak of for all three. Apple needs to work better with hardware partners and not wait till November to have a conference for its certified device program.
Fitbit, Jawbone, Nike etc are all likely going to be integrated into Health Kit probably within weeks. There should be ample of hardware in that regard.
Still they are just fitness trackers not health traxkers.
I ah tried a couple of apps and cannot get the Health app to work. I have no data showing – no steps or anything. It worked for a while in one of the betas for o08 but then stopped.
Does anyone know, if this is US only? I can’t find this in the german App Store…
I am not sure why, but this section isn’t showing in the uk on my iTunes via iPhone 6 or my Macbook Pro :(
“Red prices on pink background?”
I’m sure the price-button-guys had no access to the background color before the release – for secrecy reasons..
Still don’t get how this works. Overly complicated is putting it nicely.
I’m using my fitness pal, I “think” I turned on health kit integration, after manually switching 50 toggles… And I see no calorie data in the health app.
The downloaded app either “writes” or “reads” data depending on what you toggle. If the app is writing data any points captured (nutrition info from MyFitnessPal, sleep/heart rate info from MotionX) will be pushed to Health. If you allow the app to read data is will pull information you input manually from Health, for example, weight data tracked through a connected scale you step on each morning… data is pulled into Health and then pulled by MyFitnessPal to track progress.
Sweet! Another cool set of features that I can’t use!!!
LoL that “Human Activity” logo. SMH
Hoping to see Nike Running update any day now, MapMyRun just released their update… what gives?
PEAR Sports (https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa/ra/ng/app/563723189) also now supports Health
When will the Nike Fit band work?
I’m not getting any results using My Fitness Pal to sync with the Health app, what’s the point or when will the data transfer?
If you go to the health data section and go through each one and click on them, it will bring you to the share data screen. Click on share data and slide to share with MyFItnessPal. It will only allow the things you let fitness pal to write the data in the sources section. If it doesn’t show up on your sources you’ll have to go to the privacy settings on your phone and allow health to accept it and possibly the same with fitness pal. It took me a while to figure it out too.
Is there a way to link my fitness pal or jawbone UP to sync the workouts I log in those apps to the health kit app? So far I have my steps and sleep linked from my UP band and my dietary stats linked from my fitness pal, but I can’t get it to log my active calories or my workouts from either APP! Please help…
I can’t get it to track my bike rides and it won’t sink with MapMyRide and I also think it is counting every bump in the road as a step. I have the iPhone 5s.