14 DAY TRIAL // At this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced iOS 8 featuring a wide range of new perks and enhancements, including the all-new Health application and a HealthKit API for developers to leverage this health & fitness tool with big plans for the future.
Apple proudly said, “The new Health app gives you an easy-to-read dashboard of your health and fitness data. And we’ve created a new tool for developers called HealthKit, which allows all the incredible health and fitness apps to work together, and work harder, for you.”
The Cupertino tech titan boasted, “It just might be the beginning of a health revolution.” And with the upcoming iWatch on the way, it just might indeed.
Delve deep into the Health app in iOS 8 Beta and you’ll discover a bevy of health-oriented tools for tracking your heart rate, calories burned, blood sugar, cholesterol, etc.
If you have health and fitness apps installed on your handset, the iOS 8 Health app will aggregate all that data and put it in one place where it is most readable and accessible.
As shown in the images below, you can get a bird’s eye view of your most recent health and fitness data in one dashboard and manage what you’d prefer to track with a list of the different types of data that Health is currently managing. You can tap each one to see what they’re tracking individually.
Knowing how the people at Apple are such big fans of their own devices, it’s not too hard to imagine all this information being transitioned from one Apple device to another in the not too distant future.
For example, blood type, allergies, or a heart condition. This will undoubtedly prove to be a life saver, just as Find My iPhone has recuperated hundreds of iDevices to this day.
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