You Can Log Your Moods and Emotions in iOS 17

[MacRumors]

The iOS 17 Health app introduces a new feature that allows you to keep track of your emotions and moods over time, so you can get an idea of your overall mental wellbeing.

With the iOS 17 Health app, you can quickly make a note of your state of mind each day. There's an option to choose a feeling ranging from Very Unpleasant to Very Pleasant, and then a list of words that you can use to hone in on your general mood.

From there, you can select a reason for the way that you're feeling, such as work, partner, hobbies, money, health, family, and more. Logging a mood takes just a few seconds, and the Health app will aggregate the data over time.

Mood logging can also be done on an Apple Watch running watchOS 10 through the Mindfulness app. On the watch, if you open up the Mindfulness app, there's a new "Log State of Mind" option. Tapping it lets you log how you're feeling right now or how you've felt throughout the day.

Apple says that it also plans to link your mood reports to your activities like Workouts and sleep so you can see what might have an impact, plus the company plans to provide standardized mental health assessments so you can see your risk for anxiety or depression.

Article Link: You Can Log Your Moods and Emotions in iOS 17

 

[NY Guitarist]

iPhone: you good?

Me: 'I'm fine'.

 

[glsillygili]

I can't wait for Apple to come out with Apple Health Plus which includes virtual therapist sessions.

 

[Born Again]

I’m feeling good. Thanks for asking

 

[im_to_hyper]

I have brain and spinal column damage with pain and some some mood issues as a result. This is going to be amazing for sharing with my doctors.

One of my frequent challenges is that I sometimes feel so horrible, I cannot journal how horrible I feel. This will remedy that situation.

I can then share with my doctors at my appointments to give them additional data points for them to help find solutions for my overall wellness and hopefully continue to heal and improve over the extended long-term.

Now - if this could sync via Apple Health back to AllScripts/Epic/Cerner/Catails for my doctors to have access to? Even better.

 

[BornAgainMac]

Horny is not listed.

 

[gsharm]

Update: Apple has now approved the app after an appeal. Thanks for your input everyone who commented. As you can imagine I was alarmed about what had happened, especially given the timing, but should have waited for the official response first. Original tweets have been deleted. Apologies for any confusion caused.

 

[antiprotest]

Let's see the mood logs of Day One execs.

 

[thejoshuabradshaw]

After using third-party apps, this will be a nice integration within the Health app ecosystem and overall survey for trends you may not realize about yourself that other apps don't have access to or the ability to achieve.

 

[antiprotest]

Apple seems to already be blocking my mood tracking app, even though it’s no real threat to Apple, for “duplicating functionality”, even though it was doing this already 10 years ago and has lots of active users who will now lose access to updates unless Apple changes their mind:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1665871857063477249

I wonder what will happen to other apps too doing similar like Moodnotes, Reflectly, etc.

Yeah they're pretty much done.

Even if they are permitted the convenience and integration of native apps are hard to overcome.

 

[jz0309]

Just need to read MR comments and you’ll know the mood of all posters…

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Everyone needs to log their mood to iOS 17 after they spend $3,500 on Apple Vision Pro in early 2024.

 

[NY Guitarist]

Horny is not listed.

Not yet!

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Horny is not listed.

What about courage? That’s considered as a mood right?

 

[randomthoughts]

My mood has been consistently “dread” since 2020.

 

[joshuabeg]

It’s easy… I’ll just setup a shortcut so the second I open my work email my mood becomes ☹️

 

[gsharm]

Yeah they're pretty much done.

Even if they are permitted the convenience and integration of native apps are hard to overcome.

I acknowledge my app is small fries, but still has some paying users who will be denied updates, and years of dev time, customer research, etc behind it which may now go to waste. Apple allows other notes apps, email apps etc, so why not mood tracking apps? It’s not like my app is identical to theirs.

 

[SSDGUY]

I'm feeling triggered about the lack of a triggered feeling option.

 

[hoodafoo]

they should include "postal" for when you're in the mood to mail something

 

[klasma]

That's absolutely mental.

 

[randomthoughts]

Apparently there are some questionnaires for anxiety and depression risk and for your state of mind. Also looks like Apple Watch can measure the amount of time in daylight. Wonder if it requires watchOS 10.

 

[Prof.]

I can now log my descent into the Darkside of the force.

 

[rafark]

Horny is not listed.

Jokes aside it definitely should be. I don’t want to get too off topic but there are times where Im felling like this 24/7 and I don’t know why. Maybe logging could help people discover patterns for these things. I could see a chart being helpful to have a better picture.

 

[CapitalIdea]

Apple seems to already be blocking my mood tracking app, even though it’s no real threat to Apple, for “duplicating functionality”, even though it was doing this already 10 years ago and has lots of active users who will now lose access to updates unless Apple changes their mind:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1665871857063477249

I wonder what will happen to other apps too doing similar like Moodnotes, Reflectly, etc.

I would care more if you did not contribute to keeping twitter alive.

 

[Tofupunch]

Apple seems to already be blocking my mood tracking app, even though it’s no real threat to Apple, for “duplicating functionality”, even though it was doing this already 10 years ago and has lots of active users who will now lose access to updates unless Apple changes their mind:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1665871857063477249

I wonder what will happen to other apps too doing similar like Moodnotes, Reflectly, etc.

Maybe also tag Joanna Stern from WSJ