iOS 27.3 brings back the controversial Health app redesign that Apple tested back in September, but pulled back before launch due to severe backlash. Now, it seems that Apple has fixed the new Health app and tweaked some of the features that previously angered users.
The new Health app is here with AI bells and whistles
The redesigned Health app is built with Apple Intelligence at its core. | Image by Apple
Most of the AI features that we've already seen in the iOS 27.2 beta preview are here, along with the new design. The new features include a new Insights tab that, as the name suggests, offers health insights and your most recent health data, such as Activity Rings, heart rate, sleep score, and vitals.
This data feeds into Apple Intelligence and you receive Personal Guidance based on your specific goals and activities. The Longevity tab is another new feature, which was at the center of the backlash when the new Health app was first tested.
It analyzes various health metrics, such as heart health, sleep, mental wellbeing, movement, metabolic health, hearing, and nutrition, and gives you an overall assessment of your Health Age against your actual biological age. If you sleep well, exercise often, and keep a healthy eating pattern, for example, your Health age might drop compared to your actual age.
The new For You section
The For You section is designed to give you intelligent recommendations based on your daily routines. | Image by Apple
There's a new section, called For You. It's designed to give you intelligent recommendations based on your daily routines, and it dynamically adjusts to changes in that routine. Let's say you had a couple of sleepless nights.
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The Health app will offer a wind-down routine to help you tackle those sleep issues. There are also educational videos and articles from medical experts from around the world, if you need more context or a more detailed approach to your health.
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Home movement evaluations
Apple's at-home movement evaluations in action. | Image by The Apple Post
The new Health app also features a useful feature you can do at home, using only your iPhone's camera. You can measure your flexibility, strength, balance, movement mechanics, and VO2 max without the need for specialized equipment.
These assessments use on-device Apple Visual Intelligence models, and come with real-time audio and visual feedback. The videos and all the camera data stay on-device as well, so you don't have to worry that your funny stretches and flexibility assessments could leak onto the internet.
Laboratory data and supported languages
The Health app will expand language support to global English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Apple will also offer a way to get some lab data inside the Health app.
You can either opt for a laboratory panel from Quest Diagnostics that will cost $119, or upload manually recent lab results from your medical record. This data will feed directly into Health Age, giving you a more accurate figure, and speaking of accurate, Health Age was one of the prime reasons Apple pulled the update back from iOS 27.2.
Health Age used to be brutally honest
Users on Reddit complained that the Health Age feature was brutally honest. | Image by Reddit
The Health Age feature caused a major backlash when the new Health app was first shown in iOS 27.2. The feature was criticized for being brutally honest and unforgiving, as slight deviations in sleep or a bad workout resulted in massive, demoralizing spikes in their biological age.
It remains to be seen whether Apple made the feature more forgiving and gave more leeway to users having a couple of hiccups during exercise and sleep routines. The new and redesigned Health app is already available in the iOS 27.3 developer beta and should roll out to the public later this year.
Bear in mind that you need an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone in order to use those new AI features. These include iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, and the newer iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone 18 lineups.
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