Apple on Wednesday announced the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, as well as a redesigned Apple Health app that leverages Apple Intelligence to better understand your health data. This change provides a new (Insights) tab with an overview of the most timely information, as well as personalized guidance, assessments, a new “Readiness” score, and a “Healthy Age” calculation.
The latter is a way to understand how various health indicators compare to your actual age, and uses data such as VO2 max, sleep, and more, including biomarkers from your blood.
The addition also includes a new Longevity tab that uses metrics from your Apple Watch and iPhone to assess your overall health across sleep, exercise, heart health, and other factors. Lab results can be incorporated into this guidance, and Apple announced a partnership with Quest to offer a 50-biomarker panel for $119. This allows users to quickly access data that can only be obtained from lab tests.
Apple Intelligence improves Apple’s Health app to understand other health data as well, which feeds into features like your readiness score and the Insights tab. For example, to improve heart health, the app can suggest users incorporate more intervals into their morning run. Apple says the app will also delve deeper into areas such as fitness and heart health.
The healthcare app also allows users to assess in detail how well their body is moving, which can be helpful for the elderly or those recovering from an injury. Your trainer can also demonstrate and try out specific movements while you’re being evaluated. Apple claims this is like having a coach right next to you.
The updated Health app will roll out later this year, starting with US English.
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