iOS 17 to Include Mood Tracker and Health App for iPad, AI-Based Health Coaching Service Coming in 2024

[surfzen21]

How so? Not trying to be a smart aleck. Legit wondering.

At this point, at least in NY, all electronic data is demanded in discovery, this is just additional information that can be used in a case. As to why, it could help support certain allegations being made.

That might not be the answer you are looking for but its hard to give specifics without an actual fact pattern. I will say, I've used text messages, even encrypted ones, in the child custody part of a divorce.

I don't know how this app is going to work, but if there is something that confirms someones mood and is accompanied by messages it makes it harder to say, "Oh I was joking when I sent that message, It was a miss communication."

I've swayed cases after a court mediator, or the attorney appointed to represent the children, listened to voice mails as opposed to just reading the text. Hearing the anger and or vindictiveness in someones voice can be very compelling.

 

[Daedalus65]

Mood Tracker, so the Apple Watch becomes the new mood ring...?

This is exactly where my mind went

iOS 17 to Include Mood Tracker​

Will require watch integration - just change the background color on my watch face to match my “Mood”.
Everything old is new again!

 

[msackey]

Ah, I'm really looking forward to having the Health app on the iPad! In fact, is there a way to also have the Apple Watch be paired with an iPad? And, if an Apple Watch already is paired with an iPhone, the phone could be chosen as the primary parent device.

The real estate of the iPad is "infinitely" more usable for some purposes than the phone.

 

[mansplains]

Apple plans to introduce a new emotion tracker, which will let users keep track of their mood.

Apple will expand its health offerings with a new health coaching service. Codenamed Quartz, the AI-based service...

I'm sure talking with an AI coach about your depression and anxiety is a great idea... so long as it's not over climate change

 

[mrfunnypenguin]

Tracking the mood as you check out the latest bugs features in iOS

Haha!

One of the moods will be "Annoyed by poor software engineering".

 

[klasma]

How do you “manage” nearsightedness other than putting on a pair of glasses/contacts or possibly getting corrective surgery?

Maybe they’ll include a vision test into the XR goggles so you can track how your eyesight gets worse.

 

[klasma]

They could correlate the mood tracking with the app usage from Battery, and then display a mood impact forecast for each app in the app store, on a scale from nirvana to suicidal. 😀

 

[purplerainpurplerain]

This will be even more inaccurate than the Health app and Watch already are.

These apps congratulate me for achieving daily standing goals when I have been sitting on my butt all day.

Mood and mental health are extremely hard to measure. A psychologist has to ask so many questions to really understand someone’s state.

Self reporting isn’t reliable either. People lie to themselves even in their private diaries.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

These apps congratulate me for achieving daily standing goals when I have been sitting on my butt all day.

You only have to get up very briefly for a stand hour to count. Do you literally never stand up all day? Not even for a few seconds?

 

[orbital~debris]

in healthcare settings, where tablets are widely used.

Punsome!
Well played, MacRumors, well played 😁

 

[purplerainpurplerain]

You only have to get up very briefly for a stand hour to count. Do you literally never stand up all day? Not even for a few seconds?

Dude i work from home in a wheelchair 😂😂 it tells me I have met my standing goal every day.

 

[haydn!]

I already know I’m depressed. I don’t need my iPhone reminding me.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Dude i work from home in a wheelchair 😂😂 it tells me I have met my standing goal every day.

Alright then, it is clearly not working correctly. I meant no offense with my question by the way.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

I already know I’m depressed. I don’t need my iPhone reminding me.

My PMs are open if you ever want to vent

 

[bluecoast]

'Apple wants to expand the social networking capabilities of Find My'.

No thanks.

 

[TrenttonY]

I’m going to guess that this means the Health.app is coming to macOS too.

 

[harriska2]

If this is true…





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[Mrkevinfinnerty]

I’m going to guess that this means the Health.app is coming to macOS too.

Mood tracking at work ! .. ... .. .. ..

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

I don't know how I feel about iOS telling me of my mood.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

'Apple wants to expand the social networking capabilities of Find My'.

No thanks.

I'd imagine it would be an optional thing

 

[WU27f1xcCs]

Really was not expecting to see this headline, I have been wanting this for so long.

Health has so much of my data from workouts and Apple Watch, I just wish I could view it in a more meaningful way, and Apple would give me more support on my health journey. If Strava and others can do it, why won‘t Apple. In particular with Tim A’s fitness obsession.

 

[jimbobb24]

Will the AI based tracker health tracker be like the AI memories where it doesn’t make one memory of the trip … it makes a new memory every day for the rest of my life. If AI health is telling me the same health plan every single day and is just a pest - I am going to go without.

 

[5786735]

Apple needs to revamp the Health app from the ground up. It's really just a data repository with a few charts. There's so much more potential and it surprises me that Apple hasn't pursued that potential.

Some thoughts:

• Group/cluster related data elements (e.g., heart data, physical movement data, etc.)
• Much better charts with trend lines as well as indicators of when a metric is in a good or bad range.
• Integrated and co-located tips for improving health (e.g., blood pressure, resting heart rate, etc.)

And, last but not least, AI/ML driven health insights that are derived from the total health picture (i.e., all of your health data). e.g., "we're seeing your average resting heart rate is drifting up and that you've been talking shorter walks)

This could even tap into some big (anonymized) data on the back end to help enrich the insights.

P.S. I want the Health app on my Mac too so I can look at multiple charts and data at once. They did this for Weather. Maybe this will come to more apps as they rewrite them in their cross-platform framework.

 

[supergt]

mood=severe depression if no native calculator iPad app

 

[Euroamerican]

"Your mood readings have consistently shown marked anxiety and social phobia. We have forwarded your readings to your local medical authorities so you will receive the appropriate care".