How closing your Apple Watch rings helps sleep, heart health, and mental wellbeing


Ahead of the Apple Watch’s 10th anniversary on April 24th, Apple is out with new research data today that highlights associations between the closure of Activity Rings and sleep, heart health, and mental wellbeing. The data comes from data contributed by over 140,000 participants in the Apple Heart and Movement Study… more…

New podcast goes ‘Inside Apple’ to reveal Accessibility and Health behind-the-scenes


Apple has a strong culture of secrecy, so when it shares details about its behind-the-scenes projects and processes, it’s a special treat. Today the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast has published one such treat. The latest episode features Apple staffers going in-depth on the company’s Accessibility and Health work, including AI and research developments that have […]

There are two big issues with Apple’s reported ‘AI doctor’ plan


Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported a couple of days ago on what he described as “Apple’s biggest push into health yet with a new AI doctor.” While I completely understand why Apple would want to do this, I think the company will need to tread extremely carefully to avoid the risk of doing more harm than […]