Apple’s ’Services’ business has grown significantly in recent years, leading some users fatigued by an increasing trend toward subscriptions. But Apple’s reported iOS 27 pivot on a planned ‘
Next Apple Watch activity challenge supports national parks
Apple Watch users can mark their calendars for the next activity challenge. The 2025 National Parks Challenge is set for this Sunday, August 24.
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Apple Watch helps user discover life-changing brain tumor
The Apple Watch’s health features have once again played a part in flagging a potential health problem. A 57-year-old woman from Brighton, East Sussex says her Apple Watch alerted her to an issue th
Two ways Apple is (wisely) being inclusive about its latest health features
Apple is sometimes accused of deliberately withholding new features from older devices for no good reason. For example, eyebrows were raised when dual capture video recording was restricted to the iPh
Leak reveals Apple Health app might soon connect to ChatGPT
AI chatbots have become a go-to source for many users’ health and fitness questions, and a new leak reveals that ChatGPT might soon be able to integrate your Apple Health data to guide its answers.
The latest Oura smart ring app has lessons for Apple’s health app
The latest version of the Oura smart ring app provides an improved and simplified view of key health information.
I’ve argued before that Apple could learn some lessons from Oura, and I think thi
watchOS 26 has two powerful Health features for Apple Watch
watchOS 26 launched this fall, and two of the biggest Apple Watch additions are brand new health features: hypertension notifications and sleep score. Here are the details.
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Log your weight in Apple Health quickly and cheaply with this iPhone-compatible smart scale
After my last WiFi-enabled smart scale broke and refused to connect to the Internet anymore, I sought something simpler and cheaper to replace it. The old scale had all sorts of fancy service integrat