Over the past year or so, we’ve heard a plethora of Health app related rumors. Tim Cook has stated that one of Apple’s largest contributions to society will be in health, and this series of upgrades will be a key part of that vision. We’ll be recapping those upgrades, and you should be seeing them on your iPhone in just a few months.
Simplified app design
According to a report from Macworld’s Filipe Esposito, Apple will be redesigning the health app in iOS 26.4. Per the report, there’ll be multiple “major upgrades”, including a ‘new layout for categories’ and ‘simplified metric logging.’
It isn’t otherwise clear what’ll be changing, but as this app gets more and more important to Apple’s ethos, it makes sense for it to get a design overhaul to make things simpler.
If things go according to plan, we should be seeing iOS 26.4 in beta as soon as next month, with a release set for sometime in the spring.
Food tracking
In a newsletter last year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that one of the features of Apple’s new Health app measure would be a meal tracking feature, to assist users with tracking calories and helping them with weight loss:
Food tracking will be a particularly big part of the revamped app. That’s an area that Apple has mostly avoided, so far, though the current Health app does let you enter data for things like carbohydrates and caffeine. Going big on food tracking would mean challenging services such as MyFitnessPal and, to some extent, weight-management apps like Noom.
Apple has avoided this in the past, but it should finally come to light with the new Health app in iOS 26.4, per Mark Gurman. Development is ‘full steam ahead.’
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