Apple leans into health and wellness apps, with planned AI-powered health coaching, mood tracker and blood monitors
- Apple’s new health and wellness functions to its devices include using AI and data to offer tailored coaching programmes for its user
- Also on the cards are blood pressure and blood sugar monitors, and a mood tracker which will gauge users’ emotions
Apple is working on a health coaching service powered by artificial technology and new technology for tracking emotions, in its latest attempt to entice users with health and wellness features.
The new coaching service – code-named Quartz – is designed to keep users motivated to exercise, improve their eating habits and help them sleep better, according to people with knowledge of the project.
The idea is to use AI and data from an Apple Watch to make suggestions and create coaching programmes tailored to specific users, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the initiatives haven’t been announced yet.
The move is part of a broader health push at the company, which has made such features central to its devices, especially the Apple Watch.
