Apple plans to release a redesigned Health app with an Coming to the iPhone’s Health App: Apple’s AI Doctor based health coach that may provide personalized medical advice in a significant step towards AI-based healthcare. The project, code-named Project Mulberry, is anticipated to analyze user health data using artificial intelligence and offer tailored dietary, fitness, and well-being recommendations.
The change is a reflection of Apple’s ambition to transform the iPhone into a complete health management tool that uses AI to go beyond basic health monitoring.
According to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, Apple’s AI health coach, which may be dubbed Health+, will use information from iPhones, Apple Watches, and other medical devices to provide real-time, AI-based guidance. In contrast to the current version of the Health app, which primarily monitors metrics like heart rate, calories burned,
New iPhone’s Health App: Apple’s AI Doctor
Apple is said to be training the AI model using data from internal doctors, and then bringing in outside physicians to make the health-related educational content. The company is also establishing a content centre close to Oakland, California, where health professionals will produce video content for the app. Apple is also seeking a ‘doctor personality’ to be the human face of all the AI-powered health assistants, adding a friendly touch to the service.
The Health app powered by AI follows CEO Tim Cook’s long-term vision of keeping healthcare as Apple’s largest contribution to humanity. The company has already made major advances in digital health tracking, where the Apple Watch is providing ECG monitoring, blood oxygen tracking, and fall detection. Yet the tech giant’s highly anticipated non-invasive glucose monitoring system has yet to reach development and is still years from reaching consumers.
The new Health app is set to launch with iOS 19, which Apple will introduce at WWDC 2025 (June 9-13). Assuming everything goes according to schedule, the AI doctor might be released alongside the iPhone 17 in September.
Though Apple has been criticised as late to the AI race, especially when contrasted with its competitors Google and Samsung, the company’s end-to-end use of artificial intelligence in health tracking marks a new direction. If successful, Apple’s AI-based health assistant can recast digital health, making the iPhone an active health and healthcare and not merely a data logger.
