Should Apple combine Health and Fitness into one app?

[Rogifan]

Saw this post on Threads. I get why they’re separate but I also think it would make sense to combine them with Fitness being a tab inside the Health app. Fitness feeds the health app and if you forget to set a workout on your Apple Watch and have to enter it manually you do it in the Health app. What’s the argument for continuing to keep them separate?

DalgleishGX (@dalgleishgx) on Threads

As someone who's exclusively used Samsung as my mobile brand for most of my life, learning that Apple's health app is for some reason split into two different apps (Fitness & Health) is shocking. Why isn't this just simply one app? Having it as two makes zero logical sense.

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[ApAx]

Perhaps for similar reasons for making a separate app just for classical music, which I am still on the fence about.

The Health app incorporates so many areas of human health now, that fitness tracking is now just a subset use case, but a very big and potentially bloated use case sinceFitness itself now has many sub-use-cases.

If I am using Health to track my sleep, blood pressures, blood sugars, etc. but I do not track rigorous fitness routines or metrics, I don't have to be confused or bothered by a big bloated app that tries to do too much in one. Adoption of Health among seniors etc. is likely to be higher the simpler and easier it is to use while still staying relevant to the user.

 

[cmChimera]

Absolutely not. They serve related but distinct purposes.

 

[Rogifan]

Perhaps for similar reasons for making a separate app just for classical music, which I am still on the fence about.

The Health app incorporates so many areas of human health now, that fitness tracking is now just a subset use case, but a very big and potentially bloated use case sinceFitness itself now has many sub-use-cases.

If I am using Health to track my sleep, blood pressures, blood sugars, etc. but I do not track rigorous fitness routines or metrics, I don't have to be confused or bothered by a big bloated app that tries to do too much in one. Adoption of Health among seniors etc. is likely to be higher the simpler and easier it is to use while still staying relevant to the user.

Yeah the Health app becoming too bloated is a possibility. But then I wish Apple would let you add manual workouts in the Fitness app.

 

[ApAx]

Yeah the Health app becoming too bloated is a possibility. But then I wish Apple would let you add manual workouts in the Fitness app.

It does seem like an oversight for Apple to not allow that functionality. And to solve for app bloat, perhaps there can be a toggle in Health to enable the Fitness tab/module?

 

[Rogifan]

It does seem like an oversight for Apple to not allow that functionality. And to solve for app bloat, perhaps there can be a toggle in Health to enable the Fitness tab/module?

Adding manual workouts is a pain. It makes no sense that it’s not in the Fitness app.