Apple Health

Meaningful insights.
Backed by science.

Apple is committed to empowering you on your personal health journey with intuitive features — built into the products you love to use every day.

All of our health innovations are subject to rigorous scientific validation and are developed with clinical experts from start to finish.

With helpful insights, you’ll get a better picture of your overall health and fitness on a daily basis and over time.

And since every health feature is designed to protect your privacy, you’re always in control of your data.

Heart health

Stay close to your heart.

Your heart beats over 100,000 times per day. Beat by beat, your heart rate and its response to activities like running or cycling are important indicators of your general health. With advanced features like hypertension notifications¹, irregular rhythm notifications², the ECG app³ and AFib History⁴, Apple Watch gives you an invaluable view of your cardiovascular health.

Get notified of chronic high blood pressure. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a leading cause of heart attack, stroke and kidney disease. Apple Watch can notify you if it identifies patterns of hypertension. How? The optical heart sensor provides data to an algorithm that can detect potential hypertension by analysing how your blood vessels respond to beats of the heart over 30-day periods.
Get heart health notifications. Apple Watch uses the optical heart sensor and advanced algorithms to monitor your heart rate throughout the day and can alert you to unusually high, low or irregular rhythms. You can also check your heart rate at any time with the Heart Rate app.
Take an ECG at any time, anywhere. With Apple Watch you can check for signs of atrial fibrillation, or AFib — an irregular heart rhythm — by using the ECG app to generate a single-lead electrocardiogram. When you place your finger on the Digital Crown, built-in electrodes read and record the electrical heart signals straight from your fingertip and wrist. You can share a PDF of your ECG reading with your doctor.
Learn more about arrhythmia detection (PDF)
AFib affects tens of millions of people around the world.

It’s estimated that AFib affects over 50 million adults worldwide, with a substantial increase in risk for those 65 years and older.⁵ You can help manage AFib with the right medications, regular exercise and a heart-healthy diet.
Trace your AFib history. If you’ve been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, AFib History on Apple Watch can estimate how frequently your heart is in AFib. You can also view how lifestyle factors like exercise and sleep may influence the condition — and create a PDF of your AFib History to share with your care team.

Sleep

Sleep like a dream.

Sleep plays a crucial role in your physical and mental health, affecting everything from your immune system to your mood to your longevity. Apple Watch can track your sleep and provide you with a helpful daily sleep score. It can even identify signs of sleep apnoea, which currently impacts more than 1 billion people worldwide.⁶

Wake up to your sleep score. Sleep quality is influenced by factors such as sleep duration, bedtime consistency, how often you wake up and time spent in each sleep stage. Sleep score analyses these factors each night and provides a classification and a score. You’ll see how the score is calculated, so you can understand the quality of your sleep and how to make it more restorative.
Meet your sleep goals. Set up a sleep schedule in the Health app on iPhone and track your sleep with Apple Watch. Based on your designated bedtime, Apple Watch can give you wind-down reminders and automatically enable Sleep Focus, minimising distractions across all your devices — from iPhone to Mac to Apple Watch.
Track your overnight health metrics. The Vitals app on Apple Watch helps you spot changes in your health before you feel them.⁷ Quickly see your overnight health data right there on your wrist — including sleep duration, heart rate, respiratory rate⁸, blood oxygen and wrist temperature — and get notified if your metrics are ever outside your typical range.
Spot signs of sleep apnoea. Sleep apnoea is a condition in which people experience repeated interruptions in their regular respiratory pattern while they sleep. If untreated, it can lead to hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and cardiac issues. Apple Watch can reveal signs of sleep apnoea by detecting small wrist movements that are associated with interruptions in normal respiratory patterns during sleep.⁹
Learn more about sleep apnoea (PDF)
Up to 80 per cent of all sleep apnoea cases go undiagnosed.¹⁰

Wearing your Apple Watch to bed is the first step to better understanding your risk.

Hearing

Tune in to your hearing health.

About 1.5 billion people around the world are living with hearing loss — and millions are unaware that they’re affected by it.¹¹ To help you better understand your hearing and make caring for it more accessible, our medical and audio specialists worked together to develop an end-to-end hearing health experience for AirPods Pro.

Use a clinical-grade Hearing Aid feature with AirPods Pro. You can access a Hearing Test and a Hearing Aid feature using compatible AirPods Pro and an iPhone or iPad.¹² After you complete the Hearing Test, if you have perceived mild to moderate hearing loss, your personalised hearing profile will guide you to the Hearing Aid feature. With a quick setup, you’ll start hearing more clearly immediately. And with automatic Conversation Boost¹³, you can even amplify the voice of the person you’re talking to in a busy place.
Learn more about Hearing Health features on AirPods Pro (PDF)
Take a Hearing Test at home. Find a quiet, comfortable place and launch the test from the AirPods Pro settings on your iPhone or iPad. Pro-level Active Noise Cancellation and the in-ear seal help enable the conditions needed to conduct the evaluation. Once the test is completed, you’ll get easy-to-understand results and insights about your hearing.
150,000+ real-world audiograms and millions of simulations helped develop the Hearing Test.

Using pure-tone audiometry, the test — which is informed by learnings from the Apple Hearing Study — plays a series of tones that you respond to by tapping the screen of your iPhone or iPad. Helpful animations, tapback effects and progress indicators guide you through the experience, which takes about five minutes.
Help reduce your daily noise exposure. One in three people are exposed to loud noise on a regular basis. AirPods Pro provide Loud Sound Reduction across listening modes to help prevent exposure to loud environmental noise. The Noise app on Apple Watch can also alert you when sound levels in your environment could affect your hearing.

Fitness

Fuel your fitness.

Your personal fitness is the result of small lifestyle choices that add up every day. When you integrate positive habits — like regular activity and workouts — into your routine, it can help you to improve both your physical and mental health. From Activity rings to the refreshed Workout app, Apple Watch is in tune with all the ways you stay active — so motivation is always at arm’s reach.

Close your Activity rings. Three rings: Move, Exercise, Stand. One goal: Close them every day. Apple Watch makes it easy to track your daily activity — inspiring you to move more, sit less and get some exercise. You can adjust your goals for each day of the week or even put your rings on pause.
Set a daily Move goal. Even if you don’t have an Apple Watch, you can set up a daily Move goal in the Fitness app on iPhone to keep yourself motivated. Track your steps, distance and flights climbed, as well as workouts from third-party apps, to estimate the active calories that contribute to your Move goal.
Learn how Apple Watch measures activity (PDF)
Track your heart rate during a workout with AirPods Pro 3. With all-new heart rate sensing, AirPods Pro 3 help you track your heart rate and calories burned during workouts.¹⁴ Using LEDs that pulse invisible light 256 times per second — and sensor fusion from the accelerometers — you’ll get incredibly accurate data for up to 50 different workout types in the Fitness app.
Take your training further. Apple Watch understands all the ways you work out. From running to yoga, it puts advanced metrics and views like Heart Rate Zones, training load, Power and Elevation right there on your wrist. And if you want to track how active you are over time, you can view your trends data in the Fitness app on your iPhone.
Cardio fitness insights can help you improve your long-term health.

Apple Watch can measure your cardiovascular health with VO₂ max, which is the maximum amount of oxygen your body can consume during exercise. If your cardio fitness levels are low for your age and sex, you’ll receive a notification. You can improve your VO₂ max by increasing the intensity and frequency of your cardiovascular exercise.
Learn how Apple Watch estimates cardio fitness (PDF)

Menstrual health

Get the inside track on your cycle.

Your period is a vital indicator of your overall health. The Cycle Tracking experience on iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad lets you log your period and record symptoms or cycle factors, so you have a deeper understanding of your menstrual cycle.¹⁵ Most recently, data from our ongoing Women’s Health Study — the first of its kind — has helped to improve Cycle Tracking predictions.

Stay in sync with your period. Since cycles vary, the best way to understand what’s normal for you is by tracking your menstrual cycle. In the Health app on your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, you can use Cycle Tracking to log your period, record symptoms and get predictions about your next period or fertile window. It can also notify you if a cycle deviation is detected.
Get retrospective ovulation estimates. Apple Watch has advanced sensors that can track your temperature while you sleep.¹⁷ The Cycle Tracking app uses this data to provide a retrospective estimate of when you likely ovulated, which can be helpful for family planning. Wrist temperature can also be used to improve period predictions.
A pattern of cycle deviations can be a sign of an underlying health condition.

With Cycle Tracking you can receive a notification if your logged cycle history shows a possible deviation, such as irregular, infrequent or prolonged periods, and persistent spotting.
Get insights and notifications about your pregnancy. In the Health app on iPhone or iPad, Cycle Tracking can provide you with additional support related to your health during pregnancy. For example, you can see your gestational age in Cycle Tracking, track your pregnancy across all your health charts, and be reminded to check in on your mental health more often — since during and after pregnancy you can be at a higher risk for conditions like depression.

Mental wellbeing

Be mindful of your mental health.

Your mental health is just as important as your physical health — in fact, they’re connected. Studies show that identifying your feelings can help you manage emotions and have a positive effect on the body by slowing your heart rate. Helpful features on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch let you reflect on your state of mind, and build emotional awareness and resilience.

Monitor your state of mind. With the Health app on iPhone and the Mindfulness app on Apple Watch, you can log your mood through simple, guided prompts. Interactive charts provide insights into your state of mind, how it changes over time and what factors may influence it — such as exercise, sleep and mindful minutes.
Take standardised mental health assessments. You can also use the Health app to answer a set of clinically validated questionnaires about how you’re feeling, then see your current risk for depression or anxiety. This will help you understand whether you should talk to your doctor, and you’ll have a PDF of the results you can share.
Make mindfulness part of your day. Centre yourself with Reflect and Breathe sessions in the Mindfulness app on Apple Watch. And stay present with Apple Fitness+ Meditations in the Fitness app on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.¹⁶
Preserve memories, practise gratitude. Journalling can help you reflect and practise gratitude, which has been shown to improve wellbeing. Whether you’re jotting down a memory or capturing a special moment, the Journal app on iPhone makes it easy to document your thoughts and observations through State of Mind, photos, videos, audio recordings and more.

Vision

Look out for your vision.

Reading a book, watching a movie, capturing a powerful memory — for many of us vision is considered to be one of the most important senses, because it’s our main way of understanding and navigating our environment. iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch offer features that help you care for your eyes.

Myopia, or nearsightedness, is the leading cause of vision impairment globally.¹⁸

Children between the ages of 5 and 15 are most at risk of developing myopia. It’s estimated to affect over 30 per cent of the population currently and is expected to increase to 50 per cent, or 5 billion people, by 2050.
Help prevent myopia in children. One way to reduce the risk is by having your child spend at least 80 to 120 minutes outdoors in daylight each day.¹⁹ Time in daylight can be measured on a child’s Apple Watch and parents can keep track of it with Health Sharing.²⁰
How close is too close? Viewing a device or book too closely for an extended period of time can increase the risk of myopia in children and eyestrain in adults. The Screen Distance feature on iPhone and iPad uses the same TrueDepth camera that powers Face ID to detect when you hold your device closer than 30 cm for an extended period and encourages you to move it further away.²¹
Store your vision prescription in the Health app. You can securely store your vision prescription in the Health app on your iPhone and iPad by simply taking a photo of the document and storing it. You also have the option to add the information from your prescription manually.

Apple Health app

A great view of you.

The Health app helps you organise your important health information — like medications, sleep, activity and more — in one central and secure place that’s easy to access from your iPhone and iPad. It also provides interactive charts and advanced trend analysis, so you can track and view your health data over time.

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Health app on iPad and iPhone, health summary and pinned favourites on iPad, condensed heart rate highlights on iPhone

Privacy

Your data is yours. And yours only.

All of our health features are built with privacy at the core and are designed to keep your data secure.

Your health data is encrypted on your device and is accessible only with your passcode, Touch ID or Face ID. Health data synced to iCloud is encrypted both in transit and at rest. And if you have the default two-factor authentication enabled, your health data is encrypted end to end — not even Apple can access your information.

Learn more about our approach to health privacy (PDF)

Reports and resources

Innovations grounded in science.

From heart health to vision, all Apple health features are scientifically validated and developed in collaboration with clinical experts. You can view detailed reports about our ongoing innovations below.

Apple Health Report

Learn more about our health innovations (PDF)

Fitness

Hearing

Learn more about Hearing Health features on AirPods Pro (PDF)

Heart health

Mobility

Privacy

Learn more about privacy (PDF)

Sleep

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Apple Health

Meaningful insights.Backed by science.

Heart health

Stay close to your heart.

Sleep

Sleep like a dream.

Hearing

Tune in to your hearing health.

Fitness

Fuel your fitness.

Menstrual health

Get the inside track on your cycle.

Mental wellbeing

Be mindful of your mental health.

Vision

Look out for your vision.

Apple Health app

A great view of you.

Privacy

Your data is yours. And yours only.

Reports and resources

Innovations grounded in science.

Apple Health Report

Fitness

Hearing

Heart health

Mobility

Privacy

Sleep

Our values lead the way.

A plan as innovative as our products.

Privacy. That’s Apple.

Innovation that’s accessible by design.

Meaningful insights.
Backed by science.