Apple's Research App Launches With Heart, Women's Health, and Hearing Studies in United States

[iGeneo]

I'm upgrading most of my hardware over the coming year... so after shelling out $1349 for an iPhone, ~$700 for an iPad, $199 for the AppleTV, $249 for AirPods Pro, and $249+ each for HomePod speakers... seems to me I shouldn't have to pay a dime for additional services and content. They should be throwing them in, forever. Yet the boring TV "entertainment" and mindless propaganda posing as "news", may not even be worth $0 if it came to that. Sorry, Apple... hard pass.

Thank you for your valuable feedback on the free Apple research app..

 

[iOS Geek]

I'll be downloading the app when I get home today. Until then, can someone who signed up for the hearing one let me know what that entails? Does it have anything to do with the hearing app on the S4 and S5 watch...which I don't have. (Will be upgrading my watch by the end of the year though). Definitely doing the heart one!

 

[alexandr]

interesting, i'd like to participate in the hearing one, as since i don't have an apple watch i probably can't participate in the heart data.

 

[BootsWalking]

User control. Opt-in. Research-oriented.

This is health data done right. Take note, Google.

It's done right in terms of respecting users' privacy but in terms of medical research an opt-in strategy will yield heavily biased results tainted by self-selection bias.

 

[malcolmman89]

I'll be downloading the app when I get home today. Until then, can someone who signed up for the hearing one let me know what that entails? Does it have anything to do with the hearing app on the S4 and S5 watch...which I don't have. (Will be upgrading my watch by the end of the year though). Definitely doing the heart one!

I have an S2 Watch and signed up for the hearing study. According to the Health app on the iPhone, the hearing study reads the following: Audiogram, environmental sound levels, headphones audio levels, and noise notifications. I know the S4 or 5 watch is required to record and report environmental sound levels and noise notifications, but I'm not sure about the audiogram. I use Airpods, so the Health app regularly records my headphone audio levels. It seems to me like the headphone audio levels are the only data that this study will use, unless you have an S4 or 5 watch that reports the other data.

Edit: typos

 

[bbednarz]

Thank you for your valuable feedback on the free Apple research app..

I hope he feels better after getting all that off his chest.

 

[iOS Geek]

I have an S2 Watch and signed up for the hearing study. According to the Health app on the iPhone, the hearing study reads the following: Audiogram, environmental sound levels, headphones audio levels, and noise notifications. I know the S4 or 5 watch is required to record and report environmental sound levels and noise notifications, but I'm not sure about the audiogram. I use Airpods, so the Health app regularly records my headphone audio levels. It seems to me like the headphone audio levels are the only data that this study will use, unless you have an S4 or 5 watch that reports the other data.

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Ok, so that would work for me then! Great! Basically sounds like the data from the watch would be like a "bonus" for the study, then.

 

[T5BRICK]

This is pretty cool. I signed up and I bet my wife will do the same.

 

[blcamp]

Thank you for your valuable feedback on the free Apple research app..

D'oh! Sorry y'all... wrong article. Oy.

 

[TacoChowder]

Great idea and application of technology - I only fear self-selection bias will skew the results to represent mostly fit and health-minded individuals rather than the general population.

I'm neither and I signed up. Maybe this'll be the kick-in-the-pants though

 

[ersan191]

I'm upgrading most of my hardware over the coming year... so after shelling out $1349 for an iPhone, ~$700 for an iPad, $199 for the AppleTV, $249 for AirPods Pro, and $249+ each for HomePod speakers... seems to me I shouldn't have to pay a dime for additional services and content. They should be throwing them in, forever. Yet the boring TV "entertainment" and mindless propaganda posing as "news", may not even be worth $0 if it came to that. Sorry, Apple... hard pass.

Wrong thread chief

 

[incoherent_1]

It's done right in terms of respecting users' privacy but in terms of medical research an opt-in strategy will yield heavily biased results tainted by self-selection bias.

Any good statistician should be able to compensate for selection bias with a data set as massive as this.

 

[chucker23n1]

I'm upgrading most of my hardware over the coming year... so after shelling out $1349 for an iPhone, ~$700 for an iPad, $199 for the AppleTV, $249 for AirPods Pro, and $249+ each for HomePod speakers... seems to me I shouldn't have to pay a dime for additional services and content. They should be throwing them in, forever. Yet the boring TV "entertainment" and mindless propaganda posing as "news", may not even be worth $0 if it came to that. Sorry, Apple... hard pass.

I could discuss the MacBook Pro keyboard and it would be as relevant to this thread as your post.
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So, question: whatever happened to ResearchKit? I see it's being actively developed, but mostly by Apple folks, it seems. Anyone know of some cool third-party apps? Is it mostly in-house stuff?

 

[CLS9]

I'm not seeing the Research app in the App Store, searching for 'Apple Research' and 'Research'. Any thoughts? I didn't see that it was limited participation or anything like that. I'm on the current iOS and WatchOS. Thanks!

You have to scroll way down. For some reason it's not anywhere near the top.
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Look for "Apple's research app". I had the same issue.

You have to scroll way down to find it.
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For those of you in the US who aren't finding it, you have to scroll way down to find it. For some strange reason, it doesn't show up at the top. Or anywhere near the top. <smh>
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I'm upgrading most of my hardware over the coming year... so after shelling out $1349 for an iPhone, ~$700 for an iPad, $199 for the AppleTV, $249 for AirPods Pro, and $249+ each for HomePod speakers... seems to me I shouldn't have to pay a dime for additional services and content. They should be throwing them in, forever. Yet the boring TV "entertainment" and mindless propaganda posing as "news", may not even be worth $0 if it came to that. Sorry, Apple... hard pass.

You've got the wrong thread.

 

[Shawn Llewellyn]

You have to scroll way down. For some reason it's not anywhere near the top.
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You have to scroll way down to find it.
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For those of you in the US who aren't finding it, you have to scroll way down to find it. For some strange reason, it doesn't show up at the top. Or anywhere near the top. <smh>
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You've got the wrong thread.

For some reason it says get but when I hit it it goes away then says get again??

 

[Shawn Llewellyn]

For some reason it says get but when I hit it it goes away then says get again??

I figured it out! For some reason I had to download it to my watch first and then it showed up on my iPhone 🤨

 

[DoctorTech]

Great idea and application of technology - I only fear self-selection bias will skew the results to represent mostly fit and health-minded individuals rather than the general population.

I just signed up for the heart and the hearing study. You raise a legitimate concern but it is one that is fairly easy to measure and compensate for. The researchers can compare the distribution of heights and weights of study participants against national averages to see how skewed the population of participants is. Once that is known, there are legitimate statistical techniques to transform / normalize the collected data to make it more applicable to the general public. I am happy and excited to participate in these studies.

 

[matrix07]

Can I enroll? (Have US account but live overseas)

 

[iOS Geek]

Can I enroll? (Have US account but live overseas)

I can't imagine that you wouldn't be able to. Won't know if you don't try though, so give it a shot and see what happens! There's survey questions that they say determine eligibility, so it wouldn't hurt to at least try.

 

[Janschi]

Can I enroll? (Have US account but live overseas)

you can just fill the form out as if you’re located in the US

 

[DeepIn2U]

User control. Opt-in. Research-oriented.

This is health data done right. Take note, Google.

actually it’s not. This isLIMITED research because it ONLY focuses on limited It’s user base and thus it’s data to residents in the United States.

so those of us in Canada and most likely abroad cannot participate to the overall HUMAN advancement and health.

I’d so participate in the Apple heart and movement study.

 

[Nütztjanix]

I'd love to participate, but alas - US only. Too sad. We non-US-americans have hearts and ears too, you know 😉