The iPhone Health App is Awesome with iOS 18! (here's how to use it)

[@BrandonButch]

What do you mainly use the Health app for? For me, it's sleep tracking

[@iamJordi123]

Definitely for my Apple Watch; it tracks my steps, sleep, stand hours, etc.

[@AndySchuylerVlogs]

Definitely the sleep track is my favorite thing about Apple Health

[@calebh101studios]

Vitals

[@miguelkennedy9520]

I use it for sleep tracking and mental health tracking too 😊

[@kenallen4175]

Heart rate variability, and resting heart rate.

[@mxdfpc]

Apple Health was the reason I migrated to the Apple ecosystem. There’s simply nothing like it in the Android world that consolidates information the way it does.

[@hacktivist]

What else did you try for this purpose on Android side? I find Apple health app really inconsistent and annoying to track steps and sleep.

[@0xVlad]

@@hacktivist Google Health, but it is really bad

[@mxdfpc]

@@hacktivist Reading and writing data through third-party apps. I use apps to track food intake, water consumption, caffeine, exercise, weight, and body data. All of this data goes to Apple Health and is then read by a habits app that gives me an overview of how my day went.

[@johnluckey]

Same.

[@josephpepe2607]

@@hacktivistAndroid is lame 😑

[@BrandonButch]

Health might be the most boring default app but it's also one of the most powerful, important apps on the iPhone/iPad!

[@miguelkennedy9520]

I agree with you Brandon 😊

[@AndySchuylerVlogs]

@@BrandonButch The only thing that I use the Health app is to track my sleep and tracking my heart rate when I run or walk. It’s also very useful for checking how many calories I have burned during my time in the gym.

[@Matchesta]

Is it worth buying an Apple Watch for sleep tracking, heart rate & steps etc

[@BrandonButch]

@@Matchesta 100% imo

[@jimaoua]

@@Matchestafor me the best way to track your sleep is an Oura ring. You can wear it every day and also communicate with apple health app.

[@RayyanEmpire_Official]

IOS updates are just so cool

[@RajuJain-cd2bz]

😂 which iOS version

[@RayyanEmpire_Official]

@@RajuJain-cd2bz 18

[@RayyanEmpire_Official]

@@RajuJain-cd2bz 18…..

[@Byte_J]

These in depth videos are great. Keep them coming.

[@BrandonButch]

Glad you enjoy them! I will

[@iamonlystardust]

It’s great that you have caught my attention to this app even more, it is really powerful and useful and needs more recognition!

[@Bdavie69]

I’ve been using the health app a very long time. The medication still needs a little work but is getting there. It’s nice to print a list of meds when going to the doctor as they always want that. They need to make it so the dosage can be edited when the Dr changes dosage rather than having to archive old one and add the medication all over again with the different dosage

[@mikearendall]

Thanks for this deep dive video on the Health and Fitness updates in iOS 18, Brandon!

[@teenyweenykiwi]

One thing that I just noticed from the video that I tested on my phone is that the colours on the top of the menu correspond with the category of data that is pinned. So for example of you have heart health and mobility data pinned those colours (red and yellow) will be in the coloured bar at the top of the main page. They also spin around!

[@magicbyben]

mind blown. I've never seen anyone mention this!!!

[@jean-pierrregendron766]

Bonjour Brandon, I’m french Canadian. But I regularly watch your videos to stay on top of Apple products. I’m an old man but very much enjoy Watching what you do. Also I don’t know how you do it but you always smile and it is very pleasant. Thanks!

[@EugeneHubbard-w5i]

I do use the Health app also primarily for sleep tracking, though other considerations yet apply (heart, respiration, etc.). Just want to thank you for that brief look ahead to what’s coming next, as many of the features you touched upon will have future relevance for me.

[@twokatmew]

I have chronic illnesses. I wear an Apple watch and use health daily. I also use it for sleep. I’m eager for the new Vitals app too.

[@BrandonButch]

The Vitals app has been awesome! It has detected that I'd get sick before I had any symptoms

[@breeze5378]

I’m thinking about getting a watch for this very reason. But do you have pay for an extra line to make it work?

[@twokatmew]

@@breeze5378 Only if you want cellular connectivity. My watch is GPS/WiFi, so I pay nothing beyond the watch itself.

[@sethdavis7073]

@@breeze5378Do you mean extra phone line? You can buy a regular Apple Watch and have no need for an extra line. As long as it’s within Bluetooth range of your iPhone it will work (or WiFi range). Or, you can spend an extra $100 or so to get cellular capability, but even then you don’t HAVE to get an extra line if you don’t want to use cellular, and the Watch will function just like a non-cellular one. If you did want cellular on your watch, you would need to pay extra per month for that(on top of the added cost for the watch itself), but that’s usually only $10 per month or so with most carriers.

[@faintmist]

@@breeze5378If you get an Apple Watch with cellular data, yes. But generally it’s cheaper than a phone line.

[@Jacob_Wenzel]

Sleep is the goated feature here. I love it

[@laura-bschannel]

Cycle tracking is super helpful I wish it would track all my body measurements though

[@dhe3raj]

Can you please shake the link to your Apple Watch strap, looks really good

[@TheHuztlazgreed]

I like seeing everything even if I don’t understand it. Like using the health app for when I have my annuals and I get blood work done. If I get vaccines it shows up and links there for places that allow it, which is key. I use it for medication. Sleeping. Blood oxygen feature. Mental wellbeing. And test results that can upload to the health automatically and I don’t have to wait for a doctor to call and tell me or go to that particular app because it’s synced to the health app and I get the notification for it. I’m aware.

[@paganguy77]

Very comprehensive and informative. Thanks for doing this video!

[@Keith492]

I use the health app mostly for medication and ECG

[@RJnSD]

Excellent new health features in iOS 18. Thanks for all the info, Brandon! 👍🏼

[@jimaoua]

For me Apple Watch + Oura ring = is the best way to track your health. Nice video about the refresh on apple health. Thanks Brandon

[@brandonnoyb3191]

Thank you for this video, never really used this App, But im starting now!

[@Shakyion]

The pause your ring feature is nice!!!

[@ssaaffuu]

i meanly use the app for seeing my daily steps like the in depth graphes and the history love it

[@thelidiaedit]

Hi, do you know why my phone doesn’t track my sleep data? I have my sleep schedules, but it doesn’t update daily.

[@colandabrown9257]

Hello Brandon I pray all is well with you and your family. Thank you so very much for keeping us updated on everything truly appreciate it. These are great features ever heathy application.

[@fragile3826]

I love all the updates from Brandon, can't wait for Apple Intelligence to drop!

[@BrandonButch]

Same!! October needs to hurry

[@nikko2999]

Instant click when Brandon's new video notification pops up 😁

[@BrandonButch]

I appreciate you!

[@rushabhmukkirwar9239]

This video was very informative and very helpful. I've recently joined Iphone community and have been watching all your videos. Keep up with all your good work.

[@ItsFlenz]

I'm not a fan of the medicine logging yet, you fully have to go into the app to log your medicines, with reminders you can just hold and press 'mark as completed'. Mine are not critical so it's nice to have the 'remind me in 1 hour' option in reminders, while with med logging it reminds again after 30 min and then the only option you have is to remind again in 10 minutes.

[@connielaws1674]

Hi Brandon! First of all, I’m hyped up for iOS 18😁Second, I use the Health app to track my activity, BP, and sleep.

[@Sketcharsh]

I'm not able to log sleep based on my alarm scheduled.. It stops working in ios 18 beta I guess. please help

[@jeffhale1189]

Thanks for sharing. Blessings on your day.

[@Pohmetolog]

How much storage does yours take? I am afraid that if you stick to tracking everything you might end up accumulating a lot of GBs of data.

[@rutepereira7628]

I wish the medications app was as developed outside the US, like the searching function. For me, it doesn't even let me add a specific time frame for it (like only take them for a week, as you said), so I have to archive them manually.

[@ytozylea8869]

IOS 18 IS SO CLOSE TO RELEASING!!! I AM SO EXCITED! I have an iPad Air 2 and an iPad 9th gen. My Air is on iPadOS 15.8.2 meanwhile my 9th is in iPadOS 17.5.1. I am not updating to 17.6.1 because I am waiting for the iPadOS 18 release! I am very excited!

[@kikarewind]

I love these videos! Thanks Brandon! ❤❤❤❤

[@anvardheenj6213]

Apple health some time calculate steps when we are using 2 wheeler or car . Is it accurate steps?

[@dannycamacho5471]

Does it support the fitbit app?

[@Ded-Ede]

Yes. I believe so but not fully. My parents had Fitbits their step counts, distance and calories burned showed up on my phone because we motivated each other with challenges.

[@Ded-Ede]

Or maybe it was the fitness ap

[@BrandonButch]

They're competitors so I don't believe so. You might be able to with a 3rd party app or by manually uploading all data

[@puli173]

I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max, and I noticed something strange in the Health app. If you select anything and then go to ‘Show all data’ and click on any data, it shows the hardware version as ‘iPhone 16,2’. Is this a bug or is there something I’m missing?

[@michaelazemanova7622]

Somebody else missing the fitness widget? Is it really not on iOS 18?🥺

[@kingrenes1234]

when does it come out?

[@AshleyAmber]

Does apple book has any new things for iOS 18 ?

[@shiverpoolcody]

I find that the sleep tracker works only if I have the sleep schedule on

[@breeze5378]

I heard the upcoming watches you will lose some of the health features.

[@cmooreexploring]

i have the ios 18.1 beta updated to the current one, yet you have some different options in the health app. i open the health app and i can’t share with anyone (no option to) and in the medications, i cant see the health record part..

[@msbgone]

Ibuprofen is 200mg standard... guess your doc skills are behind your tech, LOL... great summary as always!

[@BrandonButch]

🤣 I admittedly know nothing about medicine. Thanks!

[@Metalmachine18]

Ah man, I love your stuff and have run every beta of ios18 so far. But I really disagree, find the health app so clunky and not useful. Have always had to use third party apps and that hasn’t changed unfortunately. I really just want to use exclusively native apps if I could!

[@aleherrera6493]

Should I download the beta lol or just wait at this point ?

[@alisonschmi2323]

The full release of iOS 18 will release in about 2 weeks. So..

[@BrandonButch]

Just wait at this point

[@rafiatjobiramithila5816]

I put most of my time in that app

[@rupertjpb]

Latest two nights… can’t stand wearing any watch to bed 😢

[@jakeleventhal4175]

74 bpm resting heart rate is crazy

[@TomTom-xh6cn]

Never used and ain’t gonna in future. Sucks any way tbh

[@cmaus]

It's Ibuprofen, not Aibuproffin.

[@MidnightMC_0922]

Hello

[@moundercesar3102]

am i the only one who can't delete any app in the latest ios 18 beta?

[@BrandonButch]

like any default apps?

[@moundercesar3102]

@@BrandonButch no like any app, even third party one, when I try to delete it, I only get the option to delete it from homescreen, and I don’t get any option to delete when I go to the list of all apps

[@SirHackaL0t.]

Do you need an Apple Watch?

[@rutepereira7628]

Nah. Obviously an Apple Watch tracks a lot of those things by default (heart rate, respiratory rate, etc), but if you have any other wearable that supports these, it should add them to Apple Health as well. :)

[@SirHackaL0t.]

@@rutepereira7628 Cheers. So i need another device as well as my phone?

[@ElijahMeunier]

When is iPhone 17 coming out?

[@0xVlad]

Next year..

[@ByronScott-m2o]

Hey can you update your discord link so I can join

[@BrandonButch]

@@ByronScott-m2o the link works for me. Just search the Apple den discord on Google Orin discord if it doesn’t work

[@ByronScott-m2o]

@@BrandonButch oh ok lemme see if it works

[@ByronScott-m2o]

Hey Brandon. It still didnt work. It’s saying this invite link is invalid or has expired. Try using a different link to join this server

[@BrandonButch]

@@ByronScott-m2o weird, just worked for me in a private browser. You might be rate limited. I guess just keep trying, haven't seen a solution 🤔

[@ByronScott-m2o]

@@BrandonButch ok lemme try from my private browser

[@chasethesun180]

No real improvement with iOS 18, it's really disappointing. Apple could do so much more.

[@PCJISNOW17]

Can’t believe Brandon made a video on apples most forgotten app 😭😂

[@rakhsanrazan4333]

Wow

[@xabierlanda8998]

HI BRANDON, LETS SAW IF YOU ANSWER ME, NOT EVEN APPLE CANNOT, I WANT TO DELETE MY HEALTH DATA, WHO TAKES 24.5 Gb space

[@Alex99na]

Great educational video. Please switch your phone presentation settings to “dark mode”. It might increase health benefits 😊Thanks

[@dsquareddan]

Here’s the thing tho. All these biometrics aren’t very meaningful without a way to compare to what the average is for your age/gender/weight across population. Like cool I can see this one metric go up or down, but I have no idea if that measurement is even ideal for my body/age/gender. Just a comparison to my own history. The data from Apple health should be anonymized and then uploaded to a pool for everyone to average to. This would also help identify areas of country that certain metrics would be worse than others and more meaningful healthcare resources could be allocated to that.

[@friedcatfood]

The thing is comparing your data to averages is mostly useless because there's too many factors to health to say "this is good for your age". You could log that you're 220lbs 5'11" and the app could tell you that's high, but how will it know if it's a problem? How does it know if most of those 220lbs are fat or muscle? How does it know your leg to torso proportions? Etc. The value in the Health app is to compare it to yourself in the past, which is the comparison that matters the most, to see if you're having a sudden complication, or if a set of new symptoms could be cause of concern, or to check if you're making progress losing fat.

[@pedrofigueiredo5810]

It looks exactly the same as IOS17! 😮

[@mr.j5112]

LOL

[@Hyperrborean]

I know it probably doesn’t matter or mean anything to you, but you should put your phones in airplane mode. SOS kills battery.

[@BrandonButch]

SOS doesn't kill battery if you don't have a SIM/service

[@Hyperrborean]

@@BrandonButch It may be test worthy, as my old iPhone13p had about 30% battery drain daily. I toggled airplane mode because I noticed it was activity searching for service with the ‘sos’ logo Note: It does have a sim BUT no service, as I transferred my number via e-sim to my 15pm

[@coreymcdonald7745]

The health app doesn’t do anything for me, as a wheelchair user

[@BrandonButch]

Mental Wellbeing? Medications? Heart Rate?

[@marcelplaynow]

second, under 1 min

[@Clandestinemonkey]

pointlessly-long video.

[@senthilkumaranadityan9187]

Apple iphone with ios 18 does not hAve unique feature ,no unique ai feature also ,Siri is not proacgive .not worth to spend on this Only copying from Android

[@sedsou]

Why do you want unique features and not well designed features that you will use? Look at the presentation they gave and you'll realize that no one has presented the voice control functionality of the phone yet, that Apple is already in the process of doing. I also wonder why you are looking at devices from the paradigm that they shouldn't implement the best ideas from all platforms?

[@hacktivist]

Health app, steps tracking and sleep tracking is still shit and annoying in iOS. Especially if you have an Apple watch.

[@SinisterSaneW]

O

[@Bentheman24]

Shut up bot

[@SinisterSaneW]

@@Bentheman24 im not a bot lil bruh

[@Bentheman24]

@@SinisterSaneW 🧢. So delete ur original comment 🤦‍♂️

[@SinisterSaneW]

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[@SinisterSaneW]

@@Bentheman24 how u saying cap when I told you im not a bot 😭.

[@TheEdition100]

Android is better!

[@NickFckinPuma]

why are u watching this then lmao

[@BrandonButch]

If Android had something even close to Apple Health, I'd hear you out. But they don't 🫣

[@TheEdition100]

@@NickFckinPuma Bow before your Android King!

[@modzvlogs9511]

​@@TheEdition100Cry you android guy pretty sad about ur parents 😂😂

[@TheEdition100]

@@modzvlogs9511 Bow before your Android King!