Use the Health app on your iPhone or iPod touch

The Health app shows you information from your health and fitness apps all in one place. In case of emergency, you can also save your important health information in Medical ID for easy retrieval.

Set up fitness apps
and accessories

Find an overview of
your health information

Add or change
health information

Set up Medical ID
 

 

Protect your privacy
 

Back up your
Health information

Set up third-party fitness apps or accessories

To use the Health app, you need an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 8 or later. Then you can track health information from multiple sources, like compatible apps and fitness accessories. For example, if your Apple Watch monitors your heart rate and a third-party app tracks your blood sugar, you can see that data in your Health app.

Learn about managing Health information from multiple sources.

Set up third-party apps

  1. Open the Health app and tap Sources. 
  2. Tap the fitness app that you want to use.
  3. If you don't see your fitness app, you might need to open it and turn on a setting called Share or Connect. To find new fitness apps, tap the category that you want to track in Dashboard, like Sleep or Steps. A list of App Store apps will appear below.
     

Set up fitness accessories

  1. Open the Health app and tap Sources. 
  2. Tap the fitness accessory that you want to use. 
  3. If you don’t see your accessory, you might need to connect it to your device with Bluetooth.

      The Dashboard tab in the Health app

Find an overview of your health information

Open your Health app and tap Dashboard. A bar at the top offers several ways to view your health information. Just tap Day, Week, Month, or Year. You can also change what appears on your Dashboard.

The Health Data tab in the Health app      

Add or change health information

Open your Health app and tap Health Data. From here, you can add, edit, or see health information, customize your Dashboard, or choose types of measurements to use, like miles or kilometers. Here are some examples of what you can do:

  • Add Flights Climbed to your Dashboard: Tap Health Data > Fitness > Flights Climbed and turn on Show on Dashboard. 
  • Choose miles or kilometers for cycling measurements: Tap Health Data > Fitness > Cycling Distance > Unit. After you pick, your Health, Activity, and Workout apps will automatically reflect your choice. 
  • Add your weight: Tap Health Data > Body Measurements > Weight > Add Data Point. Then enter your weight.
  • Add a Blood Glucose reading: Tap Health Data > Results > Add Data Point. Then enter your reading.
  • If you have an Apple Watch, add Activity to your Dashboard: Tap Health Data > Fitness > Activity and turn on Show on Dashboard.

      The Medical ID tab in the Health app                

Set up your Medical ID

To make your important health information accessible in case of emergencies, you can set up a Medical ID on your iPhone. To add emergency contacts and health information like your birth date, height, and blood type, tap Medical ID > Edit.

Turn on Show When Locked to make your Medical ID available from the Lock screen. In an emergency, this gives people who want to help some important information, like the emergency contacts that you've entered.

Make an emergency call and access a Medical ID

If an iPhone has a Medical ID, you can view emergency medical information on the device or make an emergency call. To view the Medical ID, open the Health app and tap Medical ID. If the iPhone is locked, follow these steps:

  1. Wake the device, then swipe left to right.
  2. Tap Emergency.
  3. On the Emergency call screen, you can make a call or tap Medical ID to see emergency medical information stored on the device.

The Emergency call screen on iPhone

 

Make emergency calls on iPhone

 

Protect your privacy

The Health app keeps your health and fitness information under your control and in one place on your device. The information that you create or gather about yourself is yours to use and share. You decide what information goes into Health and which apps can get your information from the Health app. All of your Health information is encrypted to your passcode when you lock your iPhone.

Apps that access HealthKit must have a privacy policy. Review an app's privacy policy before allowing access to your health and fitness information.

Back up your health information

You can save the information stored in your Health app by backing up your iOS device with iCloud. Your information gets encrypted as it goes between iCloud and your device, and while it's stored in iCloud.

If you aren't using iCloud, you can back up your Health information by encrypting your iTunes backup. 

There's no way to recover your information or turn off Encrypt Backup
if you lose or forget the password.

Encrypt your iPhone backups to save your Health data

Learn more

Read more about Health in the user guide for iOS 9. 

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