Apple’s health and fitness revolution

Apple is attempting to amalgamate data garnered from a multitude of health and fitness apps and wearable technologies, into one handy application. Developers are now racing to get onboard the Health app

1 REQUIRED APPLE DEVICES

iPhone (4s or later) or iPod Touch (5th generation) running iOS 8 operating system with Health app

CHOOSE WEARABLE TECH 2

Decide where to wear your gear – eyes, ears, wrists, hands or feet. Three examples of popular wearable gadgets are:

Jabra Sport Pulse Wireless Earbuds: Listen to music while heart rate is read from ear canal

Apple Watch*: LED light beams read heart rate, and iPhone’s accelerometer and GPS/wi-fi track body movements

Sensoria Fitness Socks and anklet: Track foot landing and weight distribution as you walk/run

3 SHARE DATA

HealthKit: Developers use tool to sync their apps and data to Health

Health: Users view their collated data in form of charts and tables

Concerns: Linked Bluetooth devices further reduce battery life of iPhone, already suffering from decreased battery performance from running iOS 8

iPhone 6 and Health app

Sources: Apple, wire agencies   *Requires iPhone 5 or later