Apple’s Health app consists myriad of information that can overwhelm an Apple iPhone or Apple Watch user. However, integrating with other applications provides you with information about your health in one place. If you use it between iPhone and Apple Watch, it is a useful tool for maintaining your ideal well-being.
But to get the most out of this health app, you must navigate it in a better way. Here’s how you can use Apple Health App to reap the maximum benefit:
Initiating with the App
When you start using the Apple health app, you have first to set up your profile. The app requires you to provide some of the basic information such as your name, sex and date of birth. After giving input about yourself, you can also change those settings. Then, all you need to do is tap on the Apple ID photo present on the top right-hand side.
This app’s health details are blood type, type of skin, and medicines that affect your heart rate. Here you can also add whether you are using a wheelchair or not. In case you are using a wheelchair or not. If you select yes, the app will not count your steps rather, it will count pushes.
Besides your health detail, the Apple health app will also have your Medical ID, including your name, medications, height, emergency contacts, age, and allergies. All these details assist the medical authorities in viewing them if there is an emergency. This you can share at the time of emergency calls on your iPhone Lock screen. Using this Health app, you can also become an organ donor right from your profile. Not to forget, you can also export all of your health data from your profile if required. All these data you can back up and save to iCloud.
Integrating Apple Health App with other Applications
Apple Health App allows other apps like Clock, Fitness, Sleep, Siri, Cycle Tracking, and many more to integrate with it. In addition, there are several other third-party apps that you can integrate with your Apple Health App. For example, Percent Happier and Water Minder are some amazing apps that you can sync with your iPhone and Apple watch.
Easy Access to Your Health Data
On the home screen of your Apple Health App, a summary of your complete health information is present. Here you can watch your activities, health trends, level of sound in the environment, and many more things.
One of the useful features of your app is Activity, where you can easily check all of your activity rings that shows the number of calories you have burned, the amount of time you have done exercise, and how many minutes you stand. To make the maximum of the attribute, you can mix activity rings with Apple Fitness +.
The health trends feature notifies when there is any major change in some of your body parameters like heart rate or exercise minutes. In the past, we have heard how this feature has helped many by notifying them about some health changes that led them to look for life-saving medical assistance. Also, you can participate in some research studies. For example, Apple recently carried out a women’s health research study utilizing Cycle Tracking Application.
A browse tab allows taking a deeper dive into health categories. Here, you can search for details about nutrition, respiratory vitals, nutrition, etc. Each of these categories offers you to make input some details to offer some extra insights into your health. You can also observe various trends with time and then learn about the subject. The application provides articles personalized to every topic and some third-party apps for using track-relevant data.
Safe to Share Data with Others
There is a “sharing” tab to share data with anyone you want easily. It is safe to offer a summary of some topics you are sharing without sharing any details. The whole information remains encrypted, and you can stop sharing whenever you want. With this app, you can also share information with your doctor and the online portal of your health system. All you have to do is sign in with your health system information. In both ways, your information remains private. When you connect, all your records are downloaded so that you can observe all information with which your doctor is working.
So, are you using the Health App?
Even though the app has many features, some features do not work for all. So, it is recommended to go through the app to know what works for you.
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9to5mac.com