Apple Health 12+

As others have said, I want to like this app. It has a lot of features that I’m looking for, but it has a number of problems that are very frustrating within the state of mind part of the health app. It allows you to make comments to present a context for your momentary feelings, but after those are written, there’s no way to access the full text or even your full list of emotions if you had more than five or six. Feeling a lot these days, lol. How helpful can that note be if you can’t review it at another time. Additionally, when using the speech to text feature to fill in your notes is difficult if you tend to pause while thinking because it will cut off and then when you try to click back into the field to continue writing it starts you in the middle of your sentence. I think of Apple products as being of top quality. These kinds of navigational issues feel silly to be found within an app produced by a company I expect to be better than average.

I love this, but I think for a health app, it’s a bit too physical. I deal with things like depression and ADHD, just overall mental health struggles. And I wish there were more basic things to track. Like showering, reading, studying if you’re in school, things more like how there’s handwashing, brushing your teeth and meditating. There’s a ton of physical options and I just feel it needs more basic things because not everyone does that stuff all the time. It would be better if it was cut into three sections. That when you open the app it gives you three options, mental, physical, and emotional health, as those are the three means of health that you’d learn about in school. I know that for some people that might be way too many options and that’s why I feel it’s better to split it up. Maybe there could be a mood tracker, basic emotions that you could put in throughout the day or even just once a day. I’d also like this stuff to be kinda specific, like for showing it’d specify if you used conditioner and/or shampoo, shaving, body wash. How many pages you read and when you started and stopped. Skin care things, like washing your face, acne treatment, spot treatment, exfoliating. I just wish I had an easy way (like on an app) to help track all these basic things, also so then I can look back to see what I did on what day to know if it’s ready to do that thing again yet.

I had a heart attack last year. I was stubborn and almost did not go into the hospital because I was sure it was something other than a life threatening heart attack. Fortunately, between my girlfriend insisting on going to the hospital AND my Apple Watch telling me my heart rate/rhythm was unusual and I should seek medical attention, I went to the hospital (BTW Apple, I must have sold a hundred Apple Watches with my story… you are welcome). I survived a severe heart attack in the ‘widow maker’ area of the heart, which is usually instantly fatal! Since then, I have used this app to monitor my way back to health, share medical information with my doctor and family, and learn to take better care of my body. I love being in control of my medical information and having it at my fingertips. However, always using my iPhone to review my medical information is not the best use of this program (think of our eyesight as we get older). An iPad is the PERFECT tool for this program. Even if it was a straight conversion, using an iPad would be sooo much better. However, I am SURE that Apple can make this program even better by making an iPad specific version. I would be happy to help and provide feedback!