Prime Highlights:

• Apple is working on an AI health coach for the Health app, which will become available when iOS 19 goes live.
• The feature will offer users personalized advice on their health based on data collected from iPhones and Apple Watches.

Key Facts:

• The AI health coach, also known as Project Mulberry internally, will be a virtual medical assistant to the Health app.
• Apple has also employed doctors and medical specialists to educate the AI system and create learning content.

Key Background:

Apple has increasingly been incorporating more health-related features into its product portfolio. Apple released the Health app in 2014 as a repository for health and fitness data, consolidating data from everywhere using a wide range of sources, including third-party apps and hardware. Apple introduced heart rate monitoring, blood oxygen level tracking (SpO2), electrocardiograms (ECG), and hearing aid functionality with AirPods Pro 2 in stages.

The new health coach based on AI is unlike Apple’s earlier strategy towards health. It is unlike the prior features that have been data-capture and passively monitoring based. The feature based on AI will be active in providing personal health advice. Once it learns from iPhone, Apple Watch, and other health-monitoring wearables, the AI health coach will provide consumers with personalized exercise, nutrition, and overall wellness regimens. This comes in line with an industry trend towards the use of artificial intelligence to present customized health information and interventions.

In order to make the AI health coach credible and accurate, Apple is said to have recruited a team of in-house doctors and collaborated with external medical professionals of different specialties such as sleep science, nutrition, physical therapy, cardiology, and mental health. The professionals will be used to assist in training the AI model and in developing educational material, which will give credibility to the feature.

Also new is the overhauled Health app, which is said to include a food-tracking feature that allows users to track meals and report on nutrition. The feature is designed to lead to healthier meals. Internally known as “Health+”, it is not clear if the AI-driven health coach will be an expensive add-on or a free upgrade to the existing Health app.

Apple is introducing these health-oriented features in June 2025 at the WWDC and ongoing releasing iOS 19 to the public later this year. It is in line with Apple’s promise to create digital healthcare technology and empower individuals to take charge of their own health.