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 progressive instruments and experiences throughout platforms.
New psychological well being options enable customers to log their momentary feelings and each day moods, see invaluable insights, and simply entry assessments and sources. iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch provide new imaginative and prescient well being options that encourage wholesome behaviors that assist cut back the danger 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 folks to take cost of their very own well being journey. With these progressive new options, we’re increasing the great 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 necessary, however typically neglected, and we’re excited to introduce options that provide invaluable new insights to supply customers with an excellent higher understanding of their well being. These insights assist assist customers of their each day selections and provide extra knowledgeable conversations with their docs.”
Psychological Well being
Psychological well being is as necessary as bodily well being and impacts folks on daily basis in how they assume, really feel, and act.
Analysis exhibits that reflecting on one’s personal psychological state may also help construct emotional consciousness and resilience. In keeping with Dr. Michelle Craske, a distinguished professor of psychology and psychiatry at UCLA, who echoes many within the area, “Figuring out our emotions has been proven to assist us handle troublesome feelings, admire constructive moments, and enhance wellbeing.” A number of research by researchers have proven that figuring out emotions reduces feelings like unhappiness and anger, and positively impacts our physique by slowing our coronary heart fee. Moreover, in a survey of individuals within the UCLA Digital Psychological Well being Examine, preliminary outcomes confirmed greater than 80 p.c of individuals discovered reflecting on their temper within the examine 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, carry an attractive and intuitive method for customers to mirror on their mind-set. Customers can scroll by partaking, multidimensional shapes and select how they’re feeling in a spread from Very Nice to Very Disagreeable. Then, they’ll choose associations which can be having the largest affect on their emotions, like Journey or Household, and describe their emotions, reminiscent of Grateful or Anxious.
Within the Well being app, customers can see invaluable insights to establish what is likely to be contributing to their mind-set — whether or not it’s associations or life-style elements, reminiscent of sleep or train — and may use these insights to raised handle their total well being.
There could also be occasions when customers can profit from extra assist. In a current survey, greater than 30 p.c of U.S. adults mentioned they’ve skilled signs of hysteria or despair.1 The identical despair and nervousness assessments typically utilized in clinics at the moment are simply accessible within the Well being app and may be taken anytime. These assessments may also help customers decide their threat stage, hook up with sources out there of their area, and create a PDF to share with their physician.
These new options allow iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch customers the world over to raised care for his or her psychological well being, and in doing so, assist elevate consciousness and acceptance for this necessary subject.
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 presently2 and anticipated to develop to 50 p.c, or 5 billion folks,3 by 2050.
Eye care suppliers suggest just a few key behaviors in kids to assist cut back the danger 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 power to measure time spent in daylight utilizing the ambient mild 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 wouldn’t have their very own iPhone can use Household Setup to pair their Apple Watch to their guardian’s iPhone, giving mother and father visibility into the period of time their children are spending in daylight with Well being Sharing. Time spent in daylight can present extra advantages to bodily and psychological well being, so this characteristic is out there to all watchOS 10 customers.
Viewing one thing like a tool or a guide at too shut of a distance can be a well-documented myopia threat issue. The brand new Display screen Distance characteristic makes use of the identical TrueDepth digicam that powers Face ID on iPhone and iPad to encourage customers to maneuver their machine farther away after holding it nearer than 12 inches for an prolonged time period. Display screen Distance can remind youthful customers to have interaction in wholesome viewing habits that may decrease their threat of myopia, and it provides grownup customers the chance to scale back digital eyestrain.
The Well being App Involves iPad
The Well being app is a central, safe, and personal place for a person’s well being and health info, and it offers customers with significant insights to reside a more healthy life. In iPadOS 17, the Well being app involves iPad and has been designed to provide 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 functional place.
Now customers can observe and handle their medicines, use Cycle Monitoring, log their momentary feelings and each day moods, view their out there well being data from a number of establishments, and extra immediately on iPad. They’ll 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 Cut 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 progressive 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 prime 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 — apart from Medical ID — is encrypted on machine. Moreover, well being information synced to iCloud is encrypted each in transit and on Apple servers. And if a person has a current model4 of watchOS, iOS, and iPadOS with the default two-factor authentication and a passcode, their well being and exercise information can be saved in a method that Apple can’t learn it.
Knowledge within the Well being app isn’t shared with any third get together with out the person’s express permission, and if customers determine to share their well being information, the Well being app offers customers with granular management over the forms of information they share and who they share it with. They’ll evaluation and handle permissions at any time.
Further Updates
- With iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10, the Medicines characteristic provides customers the choice to obtain follow-up reminders in the event that they haven’t logged taking a scheduled treatment. Customers may also make reminders as essential alerts, which permits them to come back by even when a tool is muted or has Focus enabled.
- The brand new Journal app on iOS 17 provides customers a approach to mirror and apply gratitude by writing about and remembering life’s moments. It leverages the brand new Journaling Recommendations API to supply a customized set of moments to put in writing about, utilizing on-device machine studying. Advised moments are intelligently curated from a person’s current exercise, together with photographs, folks, locations, exercises, and extra, making it straightforward to get began.5
- Apple Health+ introduces Customized Plans, a brand new approach to obtain a customized exercise or meditation schedule primarily based on day, period, exercise kind, and extra; Stacks, which permits customers to pick out a number of exercises and meditations to do seamlessly again to again; and Audio Focus, which supplies customers the power to prioritize the quantity of the music or the trainers’ voices.
Availability
The developer beta of iOS 17 is out there to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning right now, and a public beta can be out there subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options can be out there 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 vary. Some options is probably not out there in all areas or all languages.
The developer beta of iPadOS 17 is out there to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning right now, and a public beta can be out there to iPadOS customers subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options can be out there 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 vary. Some options is probably not out there in all areas or all languages.
The developer beta of watchOS 10 is out there to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning right now. A public beta can be out there to watchOS customers subsequent month at beta.apple.com. watchOS 10 can be out there 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 out there in all areas or all languages, or on all units. Options are topic to vary. For extra info, go to apple.com/watchos/watchos-preview.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. As we speak, 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 folks 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 the most effective merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, “Indicators of Nervousness or Despair Primarily based on Reported Frequency of Signs,” April 26-Could 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/news/item/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, “World Prevalence of Myopia and Excessive Myopia and Temporal Traits from 2000 by 2050,” Ophthalmology, Quantity 123, Difficulty 5, 2016, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161642016000257.
- “Current model” refers to iOS 12 or later.
- The Journal app and Journaling Recommendations API can be out there in a software program replace later this 12 months.
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