iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10 add tools for mental health and vision health. And the iPad gets a Health app
Apple revealed on 5th June that iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10 will all have new health features. These features will grow into two important areas and offer new tools and experiences across all platforms. With the new iphone update, users can keep track of their feelings and moods throughout the day, and get helpful insights. And quickly access tests and other tools. New vision health features on the iPhone, iPad. And Apple Watch encourages healthy habits that help lower the risk of myopia. The Health app is now available on the iPad, giving users new ways to see their health data. All of these new health features, as well as the ones that are already there, are based on science and built with privacy in mind.
Their goal is to give people the tools they need to be in charge of their own health. With these new features, They are adding more health and fitness tools to iPhone, iPad. And Apple Watch for their users. Mental health and vision health are important, but they’re often ignored. Apple is excited to add new tools that will give people more information about their health and help them understand it better. These ideas help people make better decisions in their everyday lives and have better talks with their doctors.
Mental Health
Mental health is just as important as physical health, and it changes what people think, feel, and do every day. Research shows that thinking about how you feel can help you become more emotionally aware and strong. Identifying our feelings has been shown to help us deal with hard feelings, enjoy good times, and feel better overall. Researchers have found that naming feelings makes us feel less sad and angry and has a good effect on our bodies by slowing our heart rate.
The Health app on iPhone is a fun and easy way for users to think about how they feel. Users can scroll through interesting. Three-dimensional forms and choose how they are feeling on a scale from Very Pleasant to Very Unpleasant. Then, they can choose the links that have the most effect on how they feel, like Travel or Family, and describe how they feel, like “Grateful” or “Worried.”
In the iPhone Health app, users can get helpful information about what might be affecting their mood, such as relationships or living choices like sleep or exercise. With these mental health apps they can better take care of their general health.
The same sadness and anxiety tests that are often given in clinics are now easy to find and can be taken at any time through Mental Health apps. Users can use these tests to figure out their amount of risk, find tools in their area, and make a PDF to give to their doctor. Users of the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch all over the world can use the benefits of the newest iPhone update to take better care of their mental health. This helps bring more attention to and acceptance of this important topic.
Vision Health
Nearsightedness, or myopia, is the most common cause of eye loss around the world. Eye doctors suggest that children do a few key things to help lower their chance of myopia. Two of these things are spending more time outside during the day and moving further away from something like a book or computer.
With watchOS 10, the environmental light sensor on the Apple Watch can now count the number of hours spent in daylight. In iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, the Health app lets users see how much time their Apple Watch has spent in the sun. Children who don’t have their own iPhone can use Family Setup to connect their Apple Watch to their parents’ iPhones. Apple Watch health features let parents see how much time their kids spend outside with Health Sharing. Spending more time outside can be good for your physical and mental health. So this function is available to everyone with watchOS 10.
Seeing something like a phone or book from too close of a distance is another well-known risk factor for myopia. The new Screen Distance feature uses the same TrueDepth camera that powers Face ID on iPhone and iPad to tell users to move their device farther away after holding it closer than 12 inches for a long time. Screen Distance can tell younger users to look at things in a healthy way, which can lower their risk of myopia, and it can help adults reduce digital eye strain.
Health App Comes to iPad
The Health app on iPhone is a central, private, and safe place for a user’s health and exercise details. It also gives users useful information to help them live better lives. In iPadOS 17, the Health app comes to iPad. It is meant to give users a lot of information at a glance so they can see information from iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, and supported third-party apps and devices all in one place.
Now, iPad users can keep track of and handle their medicines, use Cycle Tracking, write down their feelings and moods every day, view their health records from various schools, and do other things right on their iPad. They can also use Health Sharing to share information from the Health app with family members or providers. On the iPad, the Health app is designed to take advantage of the big screen. With a new look for Favorites and more thorough, dynamic maps. With Trends and Highlights, users can learn more about their health data. And iPadOS tools like Split View let them use other apps while they look at their health data.
Developers who make apps for health and fitness can now use HealthKit on iPad. This gives them new ways to make innovative health. And fitness apps that use data users choose to share from the Health app. And follow strict privacy and data security rules. In the iPad Pro’s Health app. The Favorites section gives an overview of Activity, Cycle Tracking, Headphone Audio Levels, Resting Heart Rate, Sleep, and Steps, among other things. The iPad Pro shows Sharing in the Health app from “Mom.”
ios 17 features
- Updates to Messages, Phone, and FaceTime
- FaceTime on Apple TV with Continuity Live-photo camera
- option to make moving stickers from live photos
- Efficient Autocorrect
- No more ‘Hey’ to turn on Siri
- StandBy mode
- Widgets that you can use
- Keeping a journal and keeping track of your feelings
- Updates to shared AirTags and AirPods
Apple Watch series 7 health features
- The Apple Watch 7 is the first major update of the watch since the Apple Watch 4. Even though it’s not a big change—the famous curved squircle is still there. It’s clear that Apple wanted a softer look for its tracker as a whole.
- Apple put the screen of the Apple Watch over the frame’s edge, giving it 20% more screen space than its predecessor. If you’re coming from an Apple Watch Series 3. The display will be 50% bigger, but the case will only be 3mm bigger.
- Apple says that the battery life of the Apple Watch Series 7 is the same as that of the Apple Watch Series 6. But the way it charges has been changed, and it now charges much faster.
When will iPad 17 be released?
Apple hasn’t announced a date yet, other than “the fall,” but it has a pretty good track record of putting out new software versions around the same time every year. Apple always releases a new version of iPadOS in the second half of September. The 2022 version was thought to be delayed so that some features could be made better. We think it’s likely that iPadOS 17 will come out at the same time as iOS 17 since we don’t think any of the changes will delay its release. The most likely release date is September.