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Apple Once Again Allowing HealthKit-Capable Apps in iOS App Store
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8.0.2 and this. Apple is on the mend again
Stock is up $1.68 already so wall street agrees.
Any one try the argus app? it was updated today (think for health kit) but it just locks up when I launch it. If i double click the home button and launch it again it locks the whole phone for 30 about seconds. The widget is cool though.
Also the fitbit app does not seem to be able to access the M8 processor now..reboot does not fix
Also the fitbit app does not seem to be able to access the M8 processor now..reboot does not fix
Health and Home are reliant on almost entirely reliant on third-party developers, so we might have to wait a while...
how does it exactly work for calorie? do you have to enter what u ate?
now we need a google glass which will see what u r eating (and then show adverts on the fly!)
Works for me (iPhone 6, 128GB) but no Health integration.
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how does it exactly work for calorie? do you have to enter what u ate?
now we need a google glass which will see what u r eating (and then show adverts on the fly!)
There's about 60 different types of data which it can track, from Vitamin C intake to Blood Alcohol Content. You can enter calories manually if you wish (I did just for the mockup), but apps will add that data for you.
For example, MyFitnessPal allows you to scan the barcode of a food item and (when the app is finally updated to access HealthKit) will add a bunch of data such as calories, fat, sugar, vitamins to Health.
Other apps (or health professionals) can then access all of this information and do things like say "Hey, you're eating an unhealthy amount of sugar and you don't have enough iron in your diet!". That's one of the best uses I can think up right now anyway.
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I'm an outdoor stair runner. I love the fact that the health app can count flights of stairs run per day. Maybe that will start a trend of people running outdoor stairs
It's started me using the stairs at work. I walk up three flights to use the restroom instead of the one on my floor. I've gone from 01 flights walked a day to 1012. I read an article specifying how beneficial it is and the app helped get my bum moving. love it.
nike move needs to push an update now please!
Nike+ Move should focus also on releasing their app in every country. It's available in the us, france and other countries but not in Belgium and they could not give me a reason why (because there is none...)
I'm an outdoor stair runner. I love the fact that the health app can count flights of stairs run per day. Maybe that will start a trend of people running outdoor stairs
Yes, it would be really great though if it could differentiate between actually climbing stairs and taking the elevator. It tells me that I climbed 12 floors on Wednesday. I most definitely didn't. I climbed 3. All the rest was the elevator.
Will the health kit know how many steps i have taken without a special third party app? I have taken several steps this morning, and nothing shows up.
Edited to add: After searching, I see iPhone 5 isn't capable of this. Darn.
Edited to add: After searching, I see iPhone 5 isn't capable of this. Darn.
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That's pretty odd, unless you were jogging in the elevator
I certainly didn't. Like I said, it can't tell the difference between stairs and the elevator.
It's also quite annoying that it creates a large number of datapoints per minute for walking. When I take a long walk, I'd like to ideally see a single datapoint for it at the end, because I would actually like to see how much I walked and not a few hundred data points for 10m each.
I believe the M7 motion processor is required, sorry buddy
There are other apps which will track your walking, though.Report the elevator bug to apple.
It makes sense from a raw data perspective to have so many data points. Third-party apps will handle the raw data and the more the better. In the mean time have you checked out Moves? Be warned that it was recently bought by Facebook, however.
Yep.