Health & Fitness

• WWDC24
• iOS, watchOS

Explore new opportunities on Apple Watch, including bringing Double Tap support to your watchOS app, making your Smart Stack widgets even more relevant and interactive, and displaying your iOS Live Activities in the Smart Stack.

• WWDC24
• iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS

Learn how to incorporate mental health and wellbeing into your app using HealthKit. There are new APIs for State of Mind, as well as for Depression Risk and Anxiety Risk. We'll dive into principles of emotion science to cover how reflecting on feelings can be beneficial, and how State of Mind can...

• WWDC24
• iOS, watchOS

Find out how your journaling app can display journaling suggestions with richer content from the system. Explore new types of available content like state of mind data, reflection prompts, and support for third-party media content and motion-based activities.

• WWDC24
• iOS, iPadOS, watchOS

Check out the latest in creating, customizing, and scheduling workouts using WorkoutKit. Sprint through the latest in pace and power alerts and expanded support for distance goals. And keep the momentum going with the benefits of custom step names.

• WWDC24
• iOS, iPadOS, visionOS

Discover how to use HealthKit to create experiences that take full advantage of the spatial canvas. Learn the capabilities of HealthKit on the platform, find out how to bring an existing iPadOS app to visionOS, and explore the special considerations governing HealthKit during a Guest User...

• WWDC23
• iOS, iPadOS, watchOS

Learn how you can get iPhone involved in your Apple Watch-based workout apps with HealthKit. We'll show you how to mirror workouts between devices and take a ride with cycling data types. Plus, get to know HealthKit for iPad.

• WWDC23
• iOS, iPadOS, watchOS

WorkoutKit makes it easy to create, preview, and schedule planned workouts for the Workout app on Apple Watch. Learn how to build custom intervals, create alerts, and use the built-in preview UI to send your own workout routines to Apple Watch.

• WWDC23
• iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS

Learn how you can use the latest Core Motion updates to expand how your app uses motion data. Discover how to stream higher-frequency sensor data when recording a HealthKit workout on Apple Watch. We'll show you how you can get submersion data — including water depth and temperature — during...

• Tech Talks
• iOS

Find out how the new Journaling Suggestions API can help people reflect on the small moments and big events in their lives though your app — all while protecting their privacy. Learn how to leverage the API to retrieve assets and metadata for journaling suggestions, invoke a picker on top of the...

• Tech Talks
• watchOS

Apple Watch Series 3 makes it easier to stay connected, even when away from your phone. Learn how to keep your app responsive over cellular connections using URLSession. Find out how to optimize your Watch app networking code to ensure that your app is always up to date and ready for use...

• WWDC22
• iOS, iPadOS, watchOS

Find out how Bluetooth devices can send timely and relevant alerts to Apple Watch. We'll show you how to take advantage of periodic data in complications, explore background peripheral discovery, and help you learn how to use characteristic monitoring in watchOS. We'll also share best practices...

• WWDC22
• iOS, iPadOS, macOS

Learn how you can easily prototype and build apps with Swift Playgrounds. We'll show you how to create an app from a blank project, build its interface with SwiftUI, and use Swift Package Manager to add extra functionality from an open source package. We'll also explore how you can debug issues...

• WWDC22
• iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Say hello to Swift Charts — a flexible framework that helps you create charts entirely in SwiftUI that look and feel right at home on all Apple platforms. Discover how you can use compositional syntax to make informative, delightful, and accessible charts with less code. We'll share the building...

• WWDC22
• iOS, iPadOS

Discover best practices and techniques to help craft magical AR experiences for iPhone and iPad. We'll provide guidance to help you determine if AR is a good fit for your experience, explore examples of great AR apps, and take you through key considerations when designing for augmented reality.

• WWDC22
• iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS

Learn how you can enhance your app with charts to communicate data with more clarity and appeal. We'll show you when to use charts, how to use them and how they work together in a chart design system.

• WWDC22
• tvOS

Discover how you can create personalized, individual experiences in your tvOS app. We'll show you how you can offer a single checkbox to store profile data, game save states, and more, providing each person with the same level of data separation they'd have on a personal device like iPhone. We'll...

• WWDC22
• iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Dive deep into data visualizations: Learn how Swift Charts and SwiftUI can help your apps represent complex datasets through a wide variety of chart options. We'll show you how to plot different kinds of data and compose marks to create more elaborate charts. We'll also take you through Swift...

• WWDC22
• iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS

Bring the latest HealthKit features to your health & fitness app. We'll show you how to capture more detailed sleep data through sleep stages, track swim-bike-run and interval workouts with the enhanced Workout API, and save vision prescriptions — including an image of the physical prescription —...

• WWDC22
• iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS

Discover how you can design and build a great SharePlay experience. We'll show you how to identify activities in your app that can help bring everyone together — even while they're apart. Learn best practices to help you design for group activities, create intuitive interactions, and build...

• WWDC22
• iOS, iPadOS, macOS

Find out how you can use the latest iOS and iPadOS system media players to build amazing media apps. We'll share how we designed the updated player and give you best practices and tips to help you design media experiences of your own. We'll also explore Live Text for video and show you how to...

• WWDC22
• iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS

Learn how you can create integrated content experiences across multiple devices. We'll introduce you to DeviceDiscoveryUI, which makes it easy to set up communication pathways and connect Apple TV with other devices like iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. We'll also explore common scenarios and...

• WWDC21
• iOS, iPadOS

Find out how you can securely request access to someone's verifiable health records and incorporate that data safely into your app. The Health app helps people download, view, and share their health records, including their COVID-19 immunization and test results — and iOS 15 brings support for...

• WWDC21
• watchOS

watchOS 8 brings all-new opportunities to keep people up to date on their watch face. With new APIs for the Always-On Retina display and updating complications from Bluetooth devices and background delivery of HealthKit data, it's never been easier to keep your app up to date. Learn about...

• WWDC21
• watchOS

Build a workout app from scratch using SwiftUI and HealthKit during this code along. Learn how to support the Always On state using timelines to update workout metrics. Follow best design practices for workout apps.

• WWDC21
• watchOS

Discover how you can integrate data from Bluetooth accessories into Apple Watch apps and complications. Bluetooth devices can provide medical data, sports stats, and more to Apple Watch, and help people get more out of your software in the process. We'll show you how to connect to these devices...

• WWDC21
• iOS, iPadOS, watchOS

Discover how you can take your app's health monitoring to the next level with motion data. Meet Walking Steadiness for iPhone and the six-minute-walk metric for Apple Watch: Walking Steadiness can help your app interpret someone's quality of walking and risk of falling, while the six-minute-walk...

• WWDC21

Dan Harris is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the co-anchor of ABC's weekend editions of Good Morning America. After having a nationally-televised panic attack in 2004, he found himself on a long and often bizarre journey that ended with him discovering mindfulness meditation. Dan will share...

• WWDC21
• iOS, iPadOS

Learn how ResearchKit and CareKit can work together to take the tedium out of paper surveys. Code along with us and build a working care pilot app. Explore best practices for onboarding and consent with ResearchKit, and find out how your app can require participants to sign consent documents by...

• WWDC21
• iOS, iPadOS

Learn how ResearchKit and CareKit can work together to take the tedium out of paper surveys. Continue coding along with us and explore how you can make it easier than ever to schedule surveys for your study participants. You'll also learn advanced techniques for crafting evolving regiments in...

• WWDC21
• iOS, iPadOS

Learn how ResearchKit and CareKit can work together to take the tedium out of paper surveys. Join us for the last part of our code along as we put the finishing touches on our care pilot app. Explore how you can use advanced CareKit APIs to customize the appearance and behavior of task cards,...

• WWDC20
• iOS, iPadOS, watchOS

HealthKit is an essential framework that integrates first- and third-party health and fitness data to help people manage their personal health information. Learn about HealthKit's latest updates, which provide read access to electrocardiograms on Apple Watch and log and track over a dozen new...

• WWDC20
• iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS

HealthKit helps you build world-class health and fitness apps by centralizing health data from third-party apps, iPhone, Apple Watch, and external health devices. Discover how you can manage authorization and privacy around Health data, read and write data to the shared Health Store, and use...

• WWDC20
• iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS

Build feature-rich research and care apps with CareKit: Learn about the latest advancements to our health framework, including new views for its modular architecture, improvements to the data store, and tighter integration with other frameworks on iOS. And discover how the open-source community...

• WWDC20
• iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS

ResearchKit continues to simplify how developers build research and care apps. Explore how the latest ResearchKit updates expand the boundaries of data researchers can collect. Learn about features like enhanced onboarding, extended options for surveys, and new active tasks. Discover how Apple...

• WWDC20
• iOS, iPadOS, watchOS

Discover how you can help people get ready for a good night's sleep by surfacing your app's actions for Wind Down Shortcuts, part of the new Sleep experience. Learn more about how Wind Down works. Find out how you can build intents that expose features in your app like guided meditations,...

• WWDC20
• iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS

Learn how FHIRModels creates native data models for all FHIR resources, provides data validation to enforce resource integrity, and prevents the creation of structurally invalid resources — across multiple versions of the FHIR specification. Whether you're working with clinical data obtained from...

• WWDC20
• iOS, iPadOS, watchOS

Move beyond step counting in your app and give people a much richer understanding of their mobility. We'll detail how you can take advantage of mobility metrics in iOS and watchOS to measure movement in more distinct and actionable ways. Learn about the latest HealthKit APIs for accessing...

• WWDC20
• iOS, iPadOS, watchOS

HealthKit provides you the tools to smartly manage health data anywhere, whether across multiple HealthKit-enabled devices such as iPhone and Apple Watch or with an external server to share data across a care team. In this session, we'll dive into managing data versions via HealthKit's built-in...

• WWDC19
• iOS, iPadOS, watchOS

Discover how HealthKit is enriching and expanding the health data types available to the users of your app. Learn about modern storage for high-frequency health data types, accessing beat-to-beat heart rate data, and how to bring an entire new dimension of health to your users with new support...

• WWDC19
• iOS, iPadOS, watchOS

The ResearchKit and CareKit frameworks are the fastest route to delivering powerful native iOS apps for the research and patient care field. Learn about the newest audio and speech active-tasks, a completely redesigned user experience, and modular architecture designed to make it a breeze to...

• WWDC15
• iOS, iPadOS, watchOS

See what's new in Core Motion. Learn how your application can take advantage of the motion sensors on iOS devices. Walk through new features of the pedometer and learn how to use the altimeter to take your app to the next level. Get personal with motion APIs and sensor data on the Apple Watch...