Perplexity Can Now Access Your Apple Health Data to Answer Medical Questions

[MacRumors]

AI company Perplexity today introduced Perplexity Health, a suite of connectors that allow Perplexity to access your health data.

Perplexity suggests that the feature is useful for aggregating health data from across different portals, apps, and devices. It is able to track metrics and trends over time across biomarkers, with information shown on a personalized dashboard.

When asked a health-related question, Perplexity Health can answer based on medical records, lab results, and wearable data. With Perplexity Computer (Perplexity's AI agent tool), AI agents can use health information to build personalized fitness plans, nutrition plans, and more. Perplexity Health on Computer is rolling out to Pro and Max users in the U.S. first.

Perplexity says that Perplexity Health draws from "premium medical literature" like clinical guidelines and peer-reviewed journals. Perplexity has established a Perplexity Health Advisory Board with physicians, researchers, and health tech experts who will "pressure-test" product decisions, content quality, and clinical safeguards against evidence-based medicine standards.

Perplexity Health is able to connect to Apple Health, so it can integrate data collected by the Apple Watch and added to the Apple Health app. It also supports Fitbit, Ultrahuman, and Withings, along with electronic health records from more than 1.7 million care providers. Oura and Function integrations are coming soon.
Health data is encrypted, and Perplexity says there are strict access controls and tools to manage or delete information at any time. Health information is not used to train AI models or sold to third parties.

Perplexity is the second AI company to integrate with Apple Health. OpenAI introduced a ChatGPT Health feature with Apple Health support in early 2026.

Article Link: Perplexity Can Now Access Your Apple Health Data to Answer Medical Questions

 

[MacUserFella]

Why even make Apple Health+ anymore? Clearly every other AI can already tell you about your health

 

[HQuest]

Hope this stays an opt-in feature. Otherwise they sure will get sued. And I'll join anyone doing so.

 

[jz0309]

sure, let some "AI tool" have access to all your health data - just be prepared for the results ...

 

[blodyholy]

It’s already a bad idea to Google your symptoms, do you really want AI telling you it’s cancer when it’s really just a sunburn? Sheesh.

 

[Digital Dude]

Yeah, nothing could possibly go wrong with that. 🙄

 

[Trusteft]

How can people be so dumb to freely give away this info and others to promote it as something positive?

 

[Surrylic]

Hope this stays an opt-in feature. Otherwise they sure will get sued. And I'll join anyone doing so.

Apple will never ever, ever ever let a third party read your data without you approving it. Have you used any third party app of any kind that needs to access any data on your phone? It’s all always opt-in. Especially the health data, which has like 20 different options to agree to.

 

[hieranonymous]

Perplexity is the second AI company to integrate with Apple Health. OpenAI introduced a ChatGPT Health feature with Apple Health support in early 2026.​

Claude’s iOS app has featured HealthKit integration for some time now.

 

[Return Zero]

How can people be so dumb to freely give away this info and others to promote it as something positive?

It’s all a fun debate until it starts saving lives… then people change their tune.

Same thing happened with Apple Watch. Who wants an always-on microphone with GPS and vitals measurements on your wrist? Then it alerts you about afib, or calls first responders for you after an accident, and you realize it can actually be something positive.

AI is already better than most doctors at diagnosis (and still getting better), if you can properly describe symptoms. This linking can take even more error out of it. If you don’t like it from a privacy standpoint, I get it, don’t use it. But AI-powered health insights will eventually save many lives.

 

[Siliconguy]

And earlier today on Slashdot;

"For the second time in the past month, an AI agent went rogue at Meta -- this time giving an engineer incorrect advice that briefly exposed sensitive data."

I trust the AI to launch any and all data in any direction at anytime. Non-linear failure modes are not predicable.

 

[marblesbarkley]

It’s all a fun debate until it starts saving lives… then people change their tune.

Same thing happened with Apple Watch. Who wants an always-on microphone with GPS and vitals measurements on your wrist? Then it alerts you about afib, or calls first responders for you after an accident, and you realize it can actually be something positive.

AI is already better than most doctors at diagnosis (and still getting better), if you can properly describe symptoms. This linking can take even more error out of it. If you don’t like it from a privacy standpoint, I get it, don’t use it. But AI-powered health insights will eventually save many lives.

lmao ok

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[now i see it]

All medical advice on the internet always concludes with “ask your doctor. Along with “it could be cancer or lead to death”, so ai telling you the same thing really isn’t of any help.

 

[@Brett]

Why even make Apple Health+ anymore? Clearly every other AI can already tell you about your health

I would trust Apple more with my data than an AI company.

 

[Astuces iOS]

Can we stop with ai slop?

 

[dogolaca]

What is the claimed advantage to me of allowing a so-called AI app to access my health data?

 

[california_kid]

I’ll take “Just because I can doesn’t mean I should” for $1,000 Alex…..

 

[teaneedz]

Health information is not used to train AI models or sold to third parties.

not selling to 3rd parties is not quite the same thing as not using that data for ad targeting with partners. i'm not sure if perplexity has ruled out ads completely or not because I've seen ads recently on a paid account — not mine. <insert Anthropic's superbowl AI ad>

 

[Student of Life]

It’s all a fun debate until it starts saving lives… then people change their tune.

Same thing happened with Apple Watch. Who wants an always-on microphone with GPS and vitals measurements on your wrist? Then it alerts you about afib, or calls first responders for you after an accident, and you realize it can actually be something positive.

AI is already better than most doctors at diagnosis (and still getting better), if you can properly describe symptoms. This linking can take even more error out of it. If you don’t like it from a privacy standpoint, I get it, don’t use it. But AI-powered health insights will eventually save many lives.

Look I’m all for technology but I think you have the example wrong here. It’s all fun and games until someone dies following an Ai advice that something is not important that kills the person.

Look we just had some ceo follow the advise of AI instead of the company legal department wanting to void a 250 million dollar bonus, it obviously failed.

 

[Charlie Bonesx]

All the more reason to continue not volunteer to Apple (or any other corp) my health information

 

[zeus423]

The title is misleading as I'm positive it can't access my data. Maybe it can access your data, but I'm not using this slop.

 

[Bustycat]

Yeah premium. Someday it would notify Pro subscribers to upgrade to Max or the usage of this feature could be limited.

 

[DrJR]

I can’t wait. They can build a doomsday clock complication on my watch to count down the days till I will most likely expire. Good times ahead….

 

[Alex.ne]

I am surprised seeing so much negativity in comments, could you explain what is so bad about the thing (except that it can give the wrong diagnosis but I assume one has enough cognitive abilities to see the doctor instead of bluntly relying on what the app says)?

 

[canadianreader]

How can people be so dumb to freely give away this info and others to promote it as something positive?

Because they think they’re smart and untouchable and very allergic to suspicion and fear.