Stopped working
App has stopped working. Tried to reinstall with no success. Most used health categories have disappeared- medication, sleep, steps & cycle. Other categories open to a blank screen.
Period tracker must have been invented by a man
I am giving this 3 stars because it has a range of features and is free but for Apple this is a joke. It’s like they opened a dictionary and said what are the symptoms of menstruation and included only those. It doesn’t allow you to add any additional symptoms or have features to track peri menopause. You have to manual include everyday of period rather than it predict based on your data.
Frustrating as I’d like Apple Health to be the one app I use rather than multiple apps.
Frustrating as I’d like Apple Health to be the one app I use rather than multiple apps.
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Great until it isn’t
Pretty good until it isn’t. I have used it for medication but then it stops showing what been taken after about a year. So pointless if you need something that works all the time.
Could be helpful but is potentially detrimental
This app is inaccurate, my husband and I regularly go for long walks together, the app always has different distances for the 2 of us. My husband always apparently walks further than me, from 25-50% difference on exactly the same walk. I am shorter than my husband yet apparently always take less steps than him and we sometimes have the same step length sometimes different, still we will walk differing distances on the same walk with the same
Apparent step length.
I fear if this information is sold to the likes of insurance companies it could be financially bad for me and inaccurate, yes treated by the insurance companies as fact.
While I like the stats, being so unreliable I’ll have find a way to remove it and stop apple tracking the info. As a naive customer though, what real options do I have in knowing what information is being tracked and shared.
Apparent step length.
I fear if this information is sold to the likes of insurance companies it could be financially bad for me and inaccurate, yes treated by the insurance companies as fact.
While I like the stats, being so unreliable I’ll have find a way to remove it and stop apple tracking the info. As a naive customer though, what real options do I have in knowing what information is being tracked and shared.
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Great app use it every day and it helps
I use this app everyday. Previously a Fitbit then Google Fitbit user I can see a massive difference between the 2 platforms. It is great to have an app that literally is all about your health. I was so impressed with the health app I bought a new Apple Watch 10. Really happy.
However I noticed a thing that might be worth looking at. I take lots of medications some medications are like 2 doses in the morning and one at night.
For example medication a tablet 500 mg 2 at 0735 and 1 of the same at 1800.
If I do an export to pdf of medications it lists all the medications but does not list the multiples or times they have to be taken. Is this with improving.
Something like time, medication a, dose
So it would look like this
0600 medication a, 500 mg, qty 2
0615 medication b, 100mg, qty 1
1800, medication a, 500 mg, qty 1
The user can already set these parameters s there are just not printed in a way that reflects this.
That said, great work well appreciated and it is helping me with diabetes so big thank-you.
However I noticed a thing that might be worth looking at. I take lots of medications some medications are like 2 doses in the morning and one at night.
For example medication a tablet 500 mg 2 at 0735 and 1 of the same at 1800.
If I do an export to pdf of medications it lists all the medications but does not list the multiples or times they have to be taken. Is this with improving.
Something like time, medication a, dose
So it would look like this
0600 medication a, 500 mg, qty 2
0615 medication b, 100mg, qty 1
1800, medication a, 500 mg, qty 1
The user can already set these parameters s there are just not printed in a way that reflects this.
That said, great work well appreciated and it is helping me with diabetes so big thank-you.
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So much room for improvement
For an innovative company, Apple are really missing the mark here. Creating an entry for any one of the features is not intuitive and there are so many limitations that the user is blocked by that it seems a total waste of time. For example, medications. You can’t edit the name once it’s been created. The mood tracking is too simplistic and doesn’t allow for nuances as mood is not always as simple as being a sliding scale from feeling ‘pleasant’ or ‘unpleasant’. And to make it more frustrating, when creating an entry the next day for the same thing, the app seems to have changed format and I can’t work out how to add an entry for today. There’s a bunch of links to read about mood etc that just take up space and fluff up what space could be used for what you actually expected to find. The data also is pretty much rendered useless because each chart has to be looked at independently. When really what you’re looking for is what all the data looks like across the time line in a simple graph. E.g Heart rate line on the Y axis, with another line above for mood, another line for medications etc. I’m really not sure what the app is trying to achieve other than farming data from what it can grab from linked devices for their own ‘research’. It’s confusing and not user friendly and I wonder each time I go back to try and use it why I bother 🤦♀️.
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Awesome but…
I truly love this app except for two things. Recording my mood and emotions is a great idea BUT you need to let us write as much as we like. Cutting us off after a sentence doesn’t help us explain things.
Secondly, it is only recently my Apple Watch has been able to record my sleep times with something closer to reality. Previously it was telling me I had 2 or 3 hours sleep !
Secondly, it is only recently my Apple Watch has been able to record my sleep times with something closer to reality. Previously it was telling me I had 2 or 3 hours sleep !
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Apple Health blocks 3rd party heart rate monitors
Apple Health doesn't upload 3rd party watch data to Apple Fitness. It captures it but blocks the upload to Apple Fitness despite trouble shooting over many months. Wahoo, Fitbit & Garmin capture track and manage all this very well. Apple Health works seamlessly with apple watch but apple watch doesn't last a whole day and struggles to last past 6pm so if you do 2-3hrs of training in the morning. You can't capture sleep data is a pain point of mine. Love the apple products but this is a big pain point for me.
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Useful tool but could be better
I find this a very useful app for collating all my health information in one place but it could be better as some things I still have to enter manually. Why, for instance, do we have to manually enter our BMI? I have already entered my height in my personal details and this won’t change unless I shrink, and as I weight myself daily, I would expect the bmi reading to automatically update once I enter my weight for the day but it doesn’t.
Also it needs to integrate better with more apps. It partially integrates with ‘BloodPressuerDB’ but only to copy over the blood pressure readings, it doesn’t copy weight information across. I am now using an Aktiia band which reads my blood pressure automatically but apple health doesn’t recognise this app at all.
Also it needs to integrate better with more apps. It partially integrates with ‘BloodPressuerDB’ but only to copy over the blood pressure readings, it doesn’t copy weight information across. I am now using an Aktiia band which reads my blood pressure automatically but apple health doesn’t recognise this app at all.
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No way to restore deleted Fitness Activity
I don’t know why you guys charge so much for iCloud backup if you are not storing useful information. I accidentally deleted all the history for my fitness workouts and there is apparently no way to restore it. Years of paying you guys for iCloud back up feels like a waste of money. No one does encrypted backup to a physical device anymore. Just like with photos, when you delete a photo, there is an option to restore the deleted photo before permanently deleting it off the app, there should be an option to restore deleted fitness workouts data in this app. I am so frustrated. I have used all Apple devices and have been heavily relying on the health app and fitness app as one should be able to and losing all this data and being told there’s no way to restore it even though it should clearly be getting backed up to the cloud storage that I pay for is just beyond ridiculous. Apple has the data somewhere, but the fact that no one is able help me get it back is not acceptable. I’ve been a loyal Apple customer and I can see the data is there, you guys just don’t have an option to restore which should be an easy fix. You clearly state that the data is collected so why can’t it be restored? I need someone to help me with this because it does not make sense that there’s no way. There has to be a way to restore accidentally deleted fitness workouts data.
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