As a diabetic I test my blood twice a day and manually enter a record of it in Notes (so I can also add notes) and to a Numbers spreadsheet (so I can view it as graphs). I had hoped the Health app would be a good way of replacing at least one of those, and according to the app my surgery uses I could also share it with them which would be very useful. So the inability to enter in mmol/L makes it completely useless.
Initially I thought this was because I have iOS set to use US region settings, but changing to UK made no difference. This additionally forced me to have to use Kg for weight in Health, which is meaningless to me and why I was forced into using a foreign region setting in the first place.
I do not care which system people think is best or what Apple thinks I should use, instinctively I understand imperial units. With few exceptions metric numbers are meaningless to me and I need to make rough mental conversions to make sense of them.
I know what 100m is from sport, I know what 2L is from bottles of pop, and that is about it. I also prefer the Y/M/D date format so as a compromise M/D/Y makes more sense than D/M/Y. Every single unit we use has the most significant unit first except those date ones, to me that is crazy.
But what I use on my phone should be a matter of what works for me personally, it is not a concern of society at larger or a matter for advocates of either system. I want data that when I need to look back makes sense to me, the main use of it. Sadly despite being able to customize each setting on a Mac, on iOS Apple has always forced you to pick a preset selection based on a region alone that I have long since given up hope of being properly to set it to my needs.
So sadly even if Apple fix this bug with blood glucose units (both, incidentally, are widely used and with metric units) I have little confidence that the app will no doubt use my region to fore me to accept Kg with mmol/L or mg/dL with pounds (and not stones).
Initially I thought this was because I have iOS set to use US region settings, but changing to UK made no difference. This additionally forced me to have to use Kg for weight in Health, which is meaningless to me and why I was forced into using a foreign region setting in the first place.
I do not care which system people think is best or what Apple thinks I should use, instinctively I understand imperial units. With few exceptions metric numbers are meaningless to me and I need to make rough mental conversions to make sense of them.
I know what 100m is from sport, I know what 2L is from bottles of pop, and that is about it. I also prefer the Y/M/D date format so as a compromise M/D/Y makes more sense than D/M/Y. Every single unit we use has the most significant unit first except those date ones, to me that is crazy.
But what I use on my phone should be a matter of what works for me personally, it is not a concern of society at larger or a matter for advocates of either system. I want data that when I need to look back makes sense to me, the main use of it. Sadly despite being able to customize each setting on a Mac, on iOS Apple has always forced you to pick a preset selection based on a region alone that I have long since given up hope of being properly to set it to my needs.
So sadly even if Apple fix this bug with blood glucose units (both, incidentally, are widely used and with metric units) I have little confidence that the app will no doubt use my region to fore me to accept Kg with mmol/L or mg/dL with pounds (and not stones).
