Apple Health

Apple has announced noteworthy global expansions for some of its latest health features for Apple Watch and AirPods. Here are the details.

My new favorite Apple Watch and Apple Health metric is one that has been quietly working in the background for years. Specifically, it’s a bit of a hidden Apple Watch feature for tracking a great healthy habit: Time in Daylight.

Starting today, Strava users can now log workouts and tap into the latest AirPods Pro 3 workout feature. Strava says it works as a standalone AirPods experience or alongside Apple Watch.

watchOS 26 introduced a new hypertension detection feature not only for Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Series 11, but for select older Apple Watch models too. Here’s how to set it up, and which models are compatible.

Apple’s Health app got a pair of welcome improvements in iOS 26.4, and rumors indicate Apple has major upgrades coming soon in iOS 27.

Pedometer++ has logged a lot of miles since first unlocking step tracking on the iPhone 5s in 2013. Nearly 13 years of updates later, version 8.0 arrives with a redesigned Apple Watch experience that includes an all-new Expedition Mode. Pedometer++ also touts a “highly-usable workout picker” for Apple Watch users frustrated by watchOS 26’s Workout app.

Apple has released a new video ad that highlights how the Health app works with iPhone and Apple Watch. The commercial centers around someone receiving lots of unsolicited health advice from strangers in public.

This story is part of 9to5mac’s series celebrating Apple’s 50th anniversary.

April 1, 1976: 50 years ago, Apple was founded. 40 years later, to the date, I was a 25-year-old embarking on a health and fitness journey, and Apple was right at the core.

April 1, 2016: I started an Apple Watch workout streak that helped guide me to running. I’d never run in my life at 25, but I started closing rings on my watch with a used elliptical at home. By fall, I was running, and by New Year’s Day, I had lost 50 pounds.

April 1, 2017: I ran my first-ever 5K race. It was the “2017 Superintendent’s 5K Challenge: A Race for Education” in Miami, Florida. My 3.1-mile run time clocked in at 26 minutes 46 seconds with an 8-minute, 36-seconds pace per mile. I ranked 151 out of 2231 participants.

Seven years ago, Samsung announced plans to bring blood pressure monitoring to smartwatches. This week, the feature has been cleared for users in the United States for the first time. Apple Watch has since added its own blood pressure monitoring capabilities, but the two approaches differ in scope.

At the end of February, I was feeling rather low. Suffice to say it’s been a long year (well, decade, really). I’m certain everyone can relate, at some point, in some way.

The arrival of spring has helped. So have the Apple Watch and Journal app, lately.

Two years ago, Withings unveiled BeamO, its multiscope with Apple Health integration. Starting today, Apple is now selling the “compact 3-in-1 health scanner” for the first time. Withings calls it a “mini-clinic” that “delivers instant, medical grade insights” about body temperature, heart, and lungs.

The Apple Health app on iPhone is a powerful way to track all facets of your health. Whether it’s recording data from your Apple Watch, importing records straight from your doctor, or integration with third-party apps, there’s something for everyone.

Here’s how to get the most out of the Apple Health app.

Following yesterday’s Comet iOS browser release, Perplexity is back with another AI announcement: Perplexity Health. The new “suite of connectors” includes integration with Apple Health, Perplexity says.

Apple has been announced as an official partner of this year’s TCS London Marathon ahead of race day next month.

Running and Apple already have a strong association after a decade of developing the Apple Watch to be the best run tracking smartwatch on the market.

Apple’s ’Services’ business has grown significantly in recent years, leading some users fatigued by an increasing trend toward subscriptions. But Apple’s reported iOS 27 pivot on a planned ‘Health+’ service is good news for the subscription-weary.

Over the past year or so, we’ve heard a plethora of Health app related rumors. Tim Cook has stated that one of Apple’s largest contributions to society will be in health, and this series of upgrades will be a key part of that vision. We’ll be recapping those upgrades, and you should be seeing them on your iPhone in just a few months.

Apple Watch blood sugar monitoring is something the company reportedly wanted to do right from the start. A report back in 2023 said that the very first Apple Watch was initially intended to launch with non-invasive glucose measurement as a headline feature.

There have been numerous reports since then, a number of them claiming that the health feature would launch in whatever the upcoming Apple Watch was at the time. More than a decade later, it still hasn’t happened, but the launch of a new device suggests that we might be getting closer …

Today OpenAI has launched ‘ChatGPT Health,’ a new feature powered by integration with Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, and more.

As Apple itself recently noted, most new year’s resolutions don’t last very long. When it comes to daily gym visits and diets, so many people have given up by the second Friday in January that it has come to be known as Quitter’s Day.

But there are some steps you can take with your Apple devices that make it extremely easy to keep up new habits once you’ve done the simple prep …

AI chatbots have become a go-to source for many users’ health and fitness questions, and a new leak reveals that ChatGPT might soon be able to integrate your Apple Health data to guide its answers.

watchOS 26 launched this fall, and two of the biggest Apple Watch additions are brand new health features: hypertension notifications and sleep score. Here are the details.