June 5, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
Apple offers highly effective insights into new areas of well being
iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10 introduce psychological well being and imaginative and prescient well being options, and the Well being app arrives on iPad
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple right now introduced new well being options in iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10, increasing into two impactful areas and offering revolutionary instruments and experiences throughout platforms.
New psychological well being options permit customers to log their momentary feelings and each day moods, see priceless insights, and simply entry assessments and sources. iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch supply new imaginative and prescient well being options that encourage wholesome behaviors that assist cut back the chance of myopia, and the Well being app involves iPad, giving customers new methods to see their well being information. All of those new options — and present well being options — are grounded in science and constructed with privateness on the core.
“Our objective is to empower individuals to take cost of their very own well being journey. With these revolutionary new options, we’re increasing the excellent vary of well being and wellness instruments that we provide our customers throughout iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch,” mentioned Sumbul Desai, M.D., Apple’s vp of Well being. “Psychological well being and imaginative and prescient well being are vital, however usually missed, and we’re excited to introduce options that provide priceless new insights to offer customers with an excellent higher understanding of their well being. These insights assist help customers of their each day selections and supply extra knowledgeable conversations with their docs.”
Psychological Well being
Psychological well being is as vital as bodily well being and impacts individuals daily in how they suppose, really feel, and act.
Analysis reveals that reflecting on one’s personal psychological state might help construct emotional consciousness and resilience. In accordance with Dr. Michelle Craske, a distinguished professor of psychology and psychiatry at UCLA, who echoes many within the discipline, “Figuring out our emotions has been proven to assist us handle tough feelings, respect constructive moments, and enhance wellbeing.” A number of research by researchers have proven that figuring out emotions reduces feelings like disappointment and anger, and positively impacts our physique by slowing our coronary heart price. Moreover, in a survey of individuals within the UCLA Digital Psychological Well being Research, preliminary outcomes confirmed greater than 80 p.c of individuals discovered reflecting on their temper within the research app elevated emotional consciousness, and about half mentioned it elevated wellbeing.
The Well being app in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, and the Mindfulness app in watchOS 10, convey an interesting and intuitive means for customers to mirror on their frame of mind. Customers can scroll by partaking, multidimensional shapes and select how they’re feeling in a variety from Very Nice to Very Disagreeable. Then, they’ll choose associations which are having the largest affect on their emotions, like Journey or Household, and describe their emotions, reminiscent of Grateful or Nervous.
Within the Well being app, customers can see priceless insights to determine what may be contributing to their frame of mind — whether or not it’s associations or life-style components, reminiscent of sleep or train — and may use these insights to higher handle their general well being.
There could also be instances when customers can profit from further help. In a latest survey, greater than 30 p.c of U.S. adults mentioned they’ve skilled signs of tension or melancholy.1 The identical melancholy and anxiousness assessments usually utilized in clinics are actually simply accessible within the Well being app and will be taken anytime. These assessments might help customers decide their danger stage, hook up with sources obtainable of their area, and create a PDF to share with their physician.
These new options allow iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch customers internationally to higher care for his or her psychological well being, and in doing so, assist elevate consciousness and acceptance for this vital matter.
Imaginative and prescient Well being
Myopia, or nearsightedness, is the main reason for imaginative and prescient impairment globally. It’s estimated to have an effect on over 30 p.c of the inhabitants at the moment2 and anticipated to develop to 50 p.c, or 5 billion individuals,3 by 2050.
Eye care suppliers suggest just a few key behaviors in kids to assist cut back the chance of myopia. Two of those behaviors are spending extra time open air in daylight and rising the space at which they view one thing like a tool or a guide.
The Worldwide Myopia Institute recommends kids spend at the least 80-120 minutes a day open air. With watchOS 10, Apple Watch introduces the flexibility to measure time spent in daylight utilizing the ambient gentle sensor. Customers can view the period of time spent in daylight detected by their Apple Watch within the Well being app in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. Youngsters who would not have their very own iPhone can use Household Setup to pair their Apple Watch to their mum or dad’s iPhone, giving dad and mom visibility into the period of time their children are spending in daylight with Well being Sharing. Time spent in daylight can present further advantages to bodily and psychological well being, so this function is accessible to all watchOS 10 customers.
Viewing one thing like a tool or a guide at too shut of a distance can also be a well-documented myopia danger issue. The brand new Display Distance function makes use of the identical TrueDepth digicam that powers Face ID on iPhone and iPad to encourage customers to maneuver their system farther away after holding it nearer than 12 inches for an prolonged time frame. Display Distance can remind youthful customers to have interaction in wholesome viewing habits that may decrease their danger of myopia, and it provides grownup customers the chance to cut back digital eyestrain.
The Well being App Involves iPad
The Well being app is a central, safe, and personal place for a consumer’s well being and health info, and it offers customers with significant insights to stay a more healthy life. In iPadOS 17, the Well being app involves iPad and has been designed to present customers wealthy element at a look to allow them to see info from iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch, in addition to appropriate third-party apps and units, multi function place.
Now customers can monitor and handle their drugs, use Cycle Monitoring, log their momentary feelings and each day moods, view their obtainable well being data from a number of establishments, and extra instantly on iPad. They will additionally select to share information saved within the Well being app with family members or caregivers utilizing Well being Sharing. On iPad, the design of the Well being app is optimized for the big show, with a brand new search for Favorites and detailed interactive charts. Customers can obtain insights into their well being information with Traits and Highlights, and use iPadOS options like Break up View to multitask with different apps whereas they view their well being information.
Well being and health builders can now use HealthKit on iPad, opening up new alternatives to create revolutionary well being and health experiences that incorporate information customers select to share from the Well being app, with rigorous privateness and information safety protocols.
Privateness
Privateness is key within the design and growth throughout all of Apple’s well being options. Apple’s well being and health options put customers’ privateness on the heart and supply them with protections, together with transparency and management.
When iPhone and iPad are locked with a passcode, Contact ID, or Face ID, all well being and health information within the Well being app — aside from Medical ID — is encrypted on system. Moreover, well being information synced to iCloud is encrypted each in transit and on Apple servers. And if a consumer has a latest model4 of watchOS, iOS, and iPadOS with the default two-factor authentication and a passcode, their well being and exercise information will likely be saved in a means that Apple can’t learn it.
Knowledge within the Well being app is rarely shared with any third social gathering with out the consumer’s specific permission, and if customers resolve to share their well being information, the Well being app offers customers with granular management over the varieties of information they share and who they share it with. They will evaluation and handle permissions at any time.
Further Updates
- With iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10, the Drugs function provides customers the choice to obtain follow-up reminders in the event that they haven’t logged taking a scheduled medicine. Customers may also make reminders as vital alerts, which permits them to return by even when a tool is muted or has Focus enabled.
- The brand new Journal app on iOS 17 provides customers a method to mirror and observe gratitude by writing about and remembering life’s moments. It leverages the brand new Journaling Ideas API to supply a personalised set of moments to put in writing about, utilizing on-device machine studying. Recommended moments are intelligently curated from a consumer’s latest exercise, together with pictures, individuals, locations, exercises, and extra, making it simple to get began.5
- Apple Health+ introduces Customized Plans, a brand new method to obtain a customized exercise or meditation schedule primarily based on day, period, exercise sort, and extra; Stacks, which permits customers to pick a number of exercises and meditations to do seamlessly again to again; and Audio Focus, which provides customers the flexibility to prioritize the amount of the music or the trainers’ voices.
Availability
The developer beta of iOS 17 is accessible to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning right now, and a public beta will likely be obtainable subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options will likely be obtainable this fall as a free software program replace for iPhone XS and later. For extra info, go to apple.com/ios/ios-17-preview. Options are topic to alter. Some options is probably not obtainable in all areas or all languages.
The developer beta of iPadOS 17 is accessible to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning right now, and a public beta will likely be obtainable to iPadOS customers subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options will likely be obtainable this fall as a free software program replace for iPad (sixth technology and later), iPad mini (fifth technology and later), iPad Air (third technology and later), 12.9-inch iPad Professional (2nd technology and later), 10.5-inch iPad Professional, and 11-inch iPad Professional (1st technology and later). For extra info, go to apple.com/ipados/ipados-17-preview. Options are topic to alter. Some options is probably not obtainable in all areas or all languages.
The developer beta of watchOS 10 is accessible to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning right now. A public beta will likely be obtainable to watchOS customers subsequent month at beta.apple.com. watchOS 10 will likely be obtainable this fall as a free software program replace for Apple Watch Collection 4 or later paired with iPhone XS or later, operating iOS 17. Some options is probably not obtainable in all areas or all languages, or on all units. Options are topic to alter. For extra info, go to apple.com/watchos/watchos-preview.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At present, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s 5 software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 workers are devoted to creating one of the best merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, “Indicators of Anxiousness or Melancholy Based mostly on Reported Frequency of Signs,” April 26-Might 8, 2023, www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/mental-health.htm.
- World Well being Group, “World report on imaginative and prescient,” October 2019, www.who.int/information/merchandise/08-10-2019-who-launches-first-world-report-on-vision.
- Brien A. Holden, Timothy R. Fricke, David A. Wilson, Monica Jong, Kovin S. Naidoo, Padmaja Sankaridurg, Tien Y. Wong, Thomas J. Naduvilath, Serge Resnikoff, “International Prevalence of Myopia and Excessive Myopia and Temporal Traits from 2000 by 2050,” Ophthalmology, Quantity 123, Problem 5, 2016, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161642016000257.
- “Latest model” refers to iOS 12 or later.
- The Journal app and Journaling Ideas API will likely be obtainable in a software program replace later this yr.
Press Contacts
Zaina Khachadourian
Apple
(408) 862-4327
Clare Varellas
Apple
(408) 862-7311
Apple Media Helpline
