Health & Fitness

• WWDC21
• iOS

Find out how you can securely request access to someone's verifiable health records and incorporate that data safely into your app. The Health app helps people download, view, and share their health records, including their COVID-19 immunization and test results — and iOS 15 brings support for...

• WWDC21
• watchOS

watchOS 8 brings all-new opportunities to keep people up to date on their watch face. With new APIs for the Always-On Retina display and updating complications from Bluetooth devices and background delivery of HealthKit data, it's never been easier to keep your app up to date. Learn about...

• WWDC21
• watchOS

Build a workout app from scratch using SwiftUI and HealthKit during this code along. Learn how to support the Always On state using timelines to update workout metrics. Follow best design practices for workout apps.

• WWDC21
• watchOS

Discover how you can integrate data from Bluetooth accessories into Apple Watch apps and complications. Bluetooth devices can provide medical data, sports stats, and more to Apple Watch, and help people get more out of your software in the process. We'll show you how to connect to these devices...

• WWDC21
• iOS, watchOS

Discover how you can take your app's health monitoring to the next level with motion data. Meet Walking Steadiness for iPhone and the six-minute-walk metric for Apple Watch: Walking Steadiness can help your app interpret someone's quality of walking and risk of falling, while the six-minute-walk...

• WWDC21

Dan Harris is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the co-anchor of ABC's weekend editions of Good Morning America. After having a nationally-televised panic attack in 2004, he found himself on a long and often bizarre journey that ended with him discovering mindfulness meditation. Dan will share...

• WWDC21
• iOS

Learn how ResearchKit and CareKit can work together to take the tedium out of paper surveys. Code along with us and build a working care pilot app. Explore best practices for onboarding and consent with ResearchKit, and find out how your app can require participants to sign consent documents by...

• WWDC21
• iOS

Learn how ResearchKit and CareKit can work together to take the tedium out of paper surveys. Continue coding along with us and explore how you can make it easier than ever to schedule surveys for your study participants. You'll also learn advanced techniques for crafting evolving regiments in...

• WWDC21
• iOS

Learn how ResearchKit and CareKit can work together to take the tedium out of paper surveys. Join us for the last part of our code along as we put the finishing touches on our care pilot app. Explore how you can use advanced CareKit APIs to customize the appearance and behavior of task cards,...

• WWDC 2020
• iOS, watchOS

HealthKit is an essential framework that integrates first- and third-party health and fitness data to help people manage their personal health information. Learn about HealthKit's latest updates, which provide read access to electrocardiograms on Apple Watch and log and track over a dozen new...

• WWDC 2020
• iOS, macOS, watchOS

HealthKit helps you build world-class health and fitness apps by centralizing health data from third-party apps, iPhone, Apple Watch, and external health devices. Discover how you can manage authorization and privacy around Health data, read and write data to the shared Health Store, and use...

• WWDC 2020
• iOS, macOS, watchOS

Build feature-rich research and care apps with CareKit: Learn about the latest advancements to our health framework, including new views for its modular architecture, improvements to the data store, and tighter integration with other frameworks on iOS. And discover how the open-source community...

• WWDC 2020
• iOS, macOS, watchOS

ResearchKit continues to simplify how developers build research and care apps. Explore how the latest ResearchKit updates expand the boundaries of data researchers can collect. Learn about features like enhanced onboarding, extended options for surveys, and new active tasks. Discover how Apple...

• WWDC 2020
• iOS, watchOS

Move beyond step counting in your app and give people a much richer understanding of their mobility. We'll detail how you can take advantage of mobility metrics in iOS and watchOS to measure movement in more distinct and actionable ways. Learn about the latest HealthKit APIs for accessing...

• WWDC 2020
• iOS, macOS, watchOS

Learn how FHIRModels creates native data models for all FHIR resources, provides data validation to enforce resource integrity, and prevents the creation of structurally invalid resources — across multiple versions of the FHIR specification. Whether you're working with clinical data obtained from...

• WWDC 2020
• iOS, watchOS

Discover how you can help people get ready for a good night's sleep by surfacing your app's actions for Wind Down Shortcuts, part of the new Sleep experience. Learn more about how Wind Down works. Find out how you can build intents that expose features in your app like guided meditations,...

• WWDC 2020
• iOS, watchOS

HealthKit provides you the tools to smartly manage health data anywhere, whether across multiple HealthKit-enabled devices such as iPhone and Apple Watch or with an external server to share data across a care team. In this session, we'll dive into managing data versions via HealthKit's built-in...

• WWDC 2019
• iOS, watchOS

Discover how HealthKit is enriching and expanding the health data types available to the users of your app. Learn about modern storage for high-frequency health data types, accessing beat-to-beat heart rate data, and how to bring an entire new dimension of health to your users with new support...

• WWDC 2019
• iOS, watchOS

The ResearchKit and CareKit frameworks are the fastest route to delivering powerful native iOS apps for the research and patient care field. Learn about the newest audio and speech active-tasks, a completely redesigned user experience, and modular architecture designed to make it a breeze to...

• WWDC 2018
• iOS

HealthKit, CoreMotion, and other iOS frameworks combined with the ResearchKit and CareKit open-source projects, provide a deep platform for the creation of game-changing apps for care teams, researchers, and the medical community. Discover new active tasks that leverage calibrated device data and...

• WWDC 2018
• iOS, watchOS

HealthKit provides a consolidated repository for a variety of data including health records containing information such as lab results, immunizations, and medications downloaded directly from institutions. Discover new health records classes and types created to provide easy access to high-level...

• WWDC 2018
• iOS, watchOS

Tracking workouts with Apple Watch is popular with fitness professionals and novices alike. See how the new workout API streamlines the entire lifecycle of a workout, complete with ability to restart a session after a crash to prevent you from losing data. Learn how the new workout classes,...

• Tech Talks
• watchOS

Apple Watch Series 3 makes it easier to stay connected, even when away from your phone. Learn how to keep your app responsive over cellular connections using URLSession. Find out how to optimize your Watch app networking code to ensure that your app is always up to date and ready for use...

• WWDC 2017
• iOS, watchOS

Discover how enhancements in authorization simplify accessing sensitive and historical motion data. Learn how to use DeviceMotion effectively and how to leverage SensorRecorder to capture hours of motion data. Walk through adding immersive motion controls to enhance an existing game.

• WWDC 2017
• iOS

Whether you're a medical researcher or a care provider, the CareKit and ResearchKit open source projects are designed to be the quickest path to delivering a customized iOS app to your candidates or patients. These frameworks are constantly gaining features and functionality from both Apple and...

• WWDC 2017
• iOS, tvOS, watchOS

HealthKit has become the standard for apps that help you manage and track your health on iOS and watchOS. Learn about new HealthKit data types in iOS 11, how to create and access workout route data, how to avoid duplication of health data, and enhancements made in HealthKit to support people...

• WWDC 2017
• iOS

The CareKit open source project provides customizable modules for delivering an app that puts a patient's care plan and adherence tracking in the palm of their hands. Connecting patient care apps to the care team is critical for monitoring adherence and providing updates is crucial. Until now,...

• WWDC 2015
• iOS, watchOS

See what's new in Core Motion. Learn how your application can take advantage of the motion sensors on iOS devices. Walk through new features of the pedometer and learn how to use the altimeter to take your app to the next level. Get personal with motion APIs and sensor data on the Apple Watch...