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 immediately introduced new well being options in iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10, increasing into two impactful areas and offering modern instruments and experiences throughout platforms.
New psychological well being options enable customers to log their momentary feelings and each day moods, see beneficial 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 scale back the danger of myopia, and the Well being app involves iPad, giving customers new methods to see their well being knowledge. All of those new options — and current 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 modern 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,” stated Sumbul Desai, M.D., Apple’s vp of Well being. “Psychological well being and imaginative and prescient well being are vital, however typically neglected, and we’re excited to introduce options that supply beneficial new insights to supply customers with a good 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 folks day-after-day 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 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 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 charge. Moreover, in a survey of contributors within the UCLA Digital Psychological Well being Examine, preliminary outcomes confirmed greater than 80 % of contributors discovered reflecting on their temper within the research app elevated emotional consciousness, and about half stated 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 approach for customers to mirror on their frame of mind. Customers can scroll by way of partaking, multidimensional shapes and select how they’re feeling in a variety from Very Nice to Very Disagreeable. Then, they’ll choose associations which might be having the most important affect on their emotions, like Journey or Household, and describe their emotions, equivalent to Grateful or Frightened.
Within the Well being app, customers can see beneficial insights to establish what is perhaps contributing to their frame of mind — whether or not it’s associations or way of life components, equivalent to sleep or train — and may use these insights to raised handle their total well being.
There could also be instances when customers can profit from further help. In a current survey, greater than 30 % of U.S. adults stated they’ve skilled signs of tension or despair.1 The identical despair and anxiousness assessments typically utilized in clinics are actually simply accessible within the Well being app and will be taken anytime. These assessments may also help customers decide their threat degree, connect with sources accessible 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 increase consciousness and acceptance for this vital 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 % of the inhabitants at the moment2 and anticipated to develop to 50 %, or 5 billion folks,3 by 2050.
Eye care suppliers suggest a number of key behaviors in youngsters to assist scale back the danger of myopia. Two of those behaviors are spending extra time outdoor in daylight and rising the gap at which they view one thing like a tool or a guide.
The Worldwide Myopia Institute recommends youngsters spend no less than 80-120 minutes a day outdoor. 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 don’t have their very own iPhone can use Household Setup to pair their Apple Watch to their dad or mum’s iPhone, giving mother and father visibility into the period of time their youngsters are spending in daylight with Well being Sharing. Time spent in daylight can present further advantages to bodily and psychological well being, so this characteristic is offered 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 frame. Display screen Distance can remind youthful customers to interact in wholesome viewing habits that may decrease their threat of myopia, and it offers 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 consumer’s well being and health data, 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 provide customers wealthy element at a look to allow them to see data from iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch, in addition to appropriate third-party apps and gadgets, multi function place.
Now customers can observe and handle their drugs, use Cycle Monitoring, log their momentary feelings and each day moods, view their accessible well being data from a number of establishments, and extra immediately on iPad. They’ll additionally select to share knowledge 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 massive show, with a brand new search for Favorites and detailed interactive charts. Customers can obtain insights into their well being knowledge with Developments and Highlights, and use iPadOS options like Cut up View to multitask with different apps whereas they view their well being knowledge.
Well being and health builders can now use HealthKit on iPad, opening up new alternatives to create modern well being and health experiences that incorporate knowledge customers select to share from the Well being app, with rigorous privateness and knowledge safety protocols.
Privateness
Privateness is prime within the design and improvement throughout all of Apple’s well being options. Apple’s well being and health options put customers’ privateness on the middle 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 knowledge within the Well being app — apart from Medical ID — is encrypted on machine. Moreover, well being knowledge synced to iCloud is encrypted each in transit and on Apple servers. And if a consumer has a current model4 of watchOS, iOS, and iPadOS with the default two-factor authentication and a passcode, their well being and exercise knowledge can be saved in a approach that Apple can’t learn it.
Knowledge within the Well being app isn’t shared with any third occasion with out the consumer’s specific permission, and if customers resolve to share their well being knowledge, the Well being app offers customers with granular management over the kinds of knowledge they share and who they share it with. They’ll assessment and handle permissions at any time.
Extra Updates
- With iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10, the Medicines characteristic offers customers the choice to obtain follow-up reminders in the event that they haven’t logged taking a scheduled remedy. Customers can even make reminders as essential alerts, which permits them to return by way of even when a tool is muted or has Focus enabled.
- The brand new Journal app on iOS 17 offers customers a approach to mirror and observe gratitude by way of writing about and remembering life’s moments. It leverages the brand new Journaling Ideas 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 consumer’s current exercise, together with images, folks, locations, exercises, and extra, making it simple 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, length, 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 flexibility to prioritize the quantity of the music or the trainers’ voices.
Availability
The developer beta of iOS 17 is offered to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning immediately, and a public beta can be accessible subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options can be accessible this fall as a free software program replace for iPhone XS and later. For extra data, go to apple.com/ios/ios-17-preview. Options are topic to vary. Some options might not be accessible in all areas or all languages.
The developer beta of iPadOS 17 is offered to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning immediately, and a public beta can be accessible to iPadOS customers subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options can be accessible 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 data, go to apple.com/ipados/ipados-17-preview. Options are topic to vary. Some options might not be accessible in all areas or all languages.
The developer beta of watchOS 10 is offered to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning immediately. A public beta can be accessible to watchOS customers subsequent month at beta.apple.com. watchOS 10 can be accessible this fall as a free software program replace for Apple Watch Sequence 4 or later paired with iPhone XS or later, operating iOS 17. Some options might not be accessible in all areas or all languages, or on all gadgets. Options are topic to vary. For extra data, go to apple.com/watchos/watchos-preview.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. In the present day, 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 gadgets and empower folks with breakthrough companies 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 Despair Primarily based 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 Developments from 2000 by way of 2050,” Ophthalmology, Quantity 123, Problem 5, 2016, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161642016000257.
- “Current model” refers to iOS 12 or later.
- The Journal app and Journaling Ideas API can be accessible in a software program replace later this 12 months.
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