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Apple Once Again Allowing HealthKit-Capable Apps in iOS App Store
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Strange. The version that was released and then pulled had HealthKit directly under More. Now it's hidden under Apps & Devices with everything else.
Health also needs an "allow all" button for sources.
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The health app lets you track all kinds of ridiculous data but has forgotten the most important one. Come on Apple how could you leave out tracking water intake. Baffling.
If MFPal is the only HealthKit app that you use, there is no point. However HealthKit is designed to collect information from many different apps/sources and securely share it under your control.
Haha very true! I hadn't thought of that, but like you say water intake is very important and quite an oversight.
I can say for sure that didn't work for me. My steps will not make you lose data. It simply resets some settings (most of which took me 1 minute to reset once I did it.
I'm also curious as to how you quantify flights of stairs. From what I've seen it seems Health would consider 10 steps and 100 steps to be equal
Beats me. I just know that's how the Fitbit works.
Why does everyone keep calling it Apple? It's Apple Inc.
besides misunderstanding, why on earth would such a thing make you mad?
I'm not really impressed with how this works.
First of all you have to have a pass-code activated. I realize that that's not so much an issue with 5s and up phones, but on the older ones, that are not locked, you can't go to medical ID on the lock screen.
To me, there should be a button on the lock screen, that shows up any time when medical ID is enabled/filled out.
How is a first responder supposed to know, for every operating system that provides that feature, where to find it...
I did the encrypted backup before updating from 8.0.0 to 8.0.2 via iTunes.
Now all the steps recorded in the health app no longer show up in the graphs, they still to show up under "all recorded data" though. The old steps there have the health app icon, the new ones have a little iPhone icon.
The "Walking + Running Distance" graph still works though... weird.
Followed all the instructions to fix it (including deleting the last step), steps graph is reset.
Kinda losing trust here, are updates always gonna break things from now on?
Now all the steps recorded in the health app no longer show up in the graphs, they still to show up under "all recorded data" though. The old steps there have the health app icon, the new ones have a little iPhone icon.
The "Walking + Running Distance" graph still works though... weird.
Followed all the instructions to fix it (including deleting the last step), steps graph is reset.
Kinda losing trust here, are updates always gonna break things from now on?
It is coming.. Current version of Health App and iWatch is just a starter. When Apple advertised iWatch as a most personal device there is a reason. Future focus on iWatch is not just to make it thin like most people think rather Apple will be focussing on what I call them as health probes. Whatever Apple did to the Credit card industry will happen to Medical side too. Master card, Visa and many other banks are now racing to use the touch id feature integrated with the card processing. You will see all medical providers going to apple for data in few years. Wait and see.
I am one of those people who leaves his iPhone sitting plugged in by his computer unless he's leaving the house or going to spend a significant time elsewhere in the house (then often plugs it in there). A step tracker on the iPhone is useless to me most days. The Apple Watch would definitely solve that problem, but then so would any Bluetooth-equipped fitness band.
I'm not, I'm only joking
unless you call an iPod touch an iTouch. That's just a flat out declaration of war.
None of those worked. However wildly scrolling around and tapping on the screen somehow fixed it. Don't know how really... disabling "show on dashboard" on everything and then adding the things repeatedly somehow seems to have done the trick.