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Apple Watch’s main selling point is tracking your health, including activity, sleep, and certain medical conditions.
But it’s not the only Apple product that can help you get in shape and stay healthy. The humble iPhone also has many health tracking features.
You may already know that you can keep track of your steps, for example. But the Health app built into your iPhone can do so much more, such as tracking the time you practice care through third-party apps, determining how much time you’ve spent in bed, your walking speed, and more. .
Here are some examples of how the iPhone can help you stay healthy:
Keep track of your steps on your iPhone
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The Health app can automatically track the number of steps you take in a day. You can also keep track of the number of stairs you climb and the total distance you have traveled.
To do it:
- Open Settings on your iPhone.
- Tap Privacy.
- Touch Movement and fitness.
- Enable “Physical Tracking”.
See your steps and other metrics:
- Open health.
- Tap “Browse” at the bottom right.
Choose “Activity”.
Apple Health on the iPhone
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Apple doesn’t have its own meditation app, unless you account for some of the exercises from the Fitness + subscription service, which has a conscious recovery and yoga workouts. But you can keep track of the time you spend meditating on third-party apps like Calm or Headspace. If you install these apps, you’ll receive a request to save information to Apple Health, and once you do, you’ll be able to keep track of the time you meditate each day throughout the time inside the app.
You need an Apple Watch to keep track of your sleep, but your iPhone can keep track of your time in bed and save that information.
It’s not a big analysis of your sleep, but you can get an idea of your sleep patterns and if you grab your iPhone at night. You can activate it by selecting “options” from the “Complete planning and options” menu.
The iPhone also has a “disconnect” feature that automatically puts your iPhone in Do Not Disturb mode and will dim the screen. Once in this mode, you can set shortcuts on the lock screen to access meditation apps, a reading app like Kindle or Apple Books, and more. I use it every night so my iPhone doesn’t bother me when I sleep.
Here’s how to turn it on:
- Open the Health app on your iPhone.
- Tap Navigate at the bottom right.
- Choose Sleep.
- Enter the time you normally go to bed and he wakes up.
- Select “Full Schedule and Options” in “Your Schedule.”
- In “Wind Down”, select how long before bed you want Wind Down to start.
- Select the shortcuts you want displayed on the lock screen, such as Headspace or Kindle.
Cycle tracking on the iPhone
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For women, the iPhone can track menstrual cycles and predict the next period and fertile windows. You can also keep a record of the period flow level, any symptoms you may want to share with your doctor, and more. You can also consider things that can affect your fertility window, such as pregnancy or contraception.
Here’s how to set it up:
- Open the Health app on your iPhone.
- Tap Navigate at the bottom right.
- Choose Cycle Tracking.
- Tap “Start.”
Audio levels for headphones
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A feature called “Headphone Audio Levels” can track the audio intensity of headphones and let you know if you’ve heard music that is too loud above the recommended limit. Listening to music at more than 90 dB for four hours a week, for example, would trigger this alert.
Here’s how to set it up:
- Open the Health app on your iPhone.
- Tap Navigate at the bottom right.
- Tap Listen.
- Choose the audio levels of the headphones.
Apple Health Records
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You can keep track of your doctor’s medical records if your doctor’s office supports integration with Apple Health. This allows you to view all types of information, including vaccinations, blood test results, previous medical procedures, and more.
See if your doctor’s office is integrated with Apple Health
- Tap your profile picture.
- Tap Health Logs in Features.
- Tap “Add an account”
- Find the location of your hospital, network, or doctor.
- Select your provider.
- Tap “Connect to account.”
- Log in to your doctor’s portal and give them access to Apple Health.
Review your health checklist
Apple also has a “health checklist” built into iOS 14, which came out in September 2020.
The health checklist will help you create a medical ID on your phone that you can show to yourself or others in first aid. He has vital information such as whether he is an organ donor or not, the type of blood he has, allergies and reactions, medications he takes, his height and weight and more. Enter this information yourself, so you don’t have to include any if you don’t want to.
The health checklist can also help you set up Emergency SOS, a feature on your iPhone that will automatically call emergency services if you tap the side button of your phone 5 times quickly. If you hold down the button, it will also send a message to any contact you add to Emergency SOS. I have my closest relatives settled in mine, for example.