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• New Apple HealthKit app offers ability to send data to family doctor
• Latest update brings a pedometer and caffeine tracker

By
Mark Prigg

Published:
18:50 GMT, 11 July 2014

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Updated:
19:21 GMT, 11 July 2014

Apple’s iPhone 6 will monitor exactly how far its owner walks each day – and even how much caffeine they drink.

The latest test version of Apple’s new Health app adds to the blood pressure, temperature and pulse monitoring features shown off by Apple earlier this year.

The app called HealthKit even offers the ability to send data to your family doctor.

It will rely on additional equipment, such as a wrist-strap  heart monitor that connects wirelessly to the iPhone.

It is not yet known how the app will track caffeine – and could rely on users telling it how much they drink.

Expert say the move could make it easier for new owners to start tracking their health.

‘Adding on-device tracking support to the Health app is a significant addition from Apple as iPhone 5s (and future iPhone) customers will no longer even need to integrate any App Store apps or hardware devices to begin using the software,’ said Mark Gurman of 9to5mac.

‘Steps is one of the more mainstream categories of fitness data, so the ability for the iPhone to provide that data out of the box is a great way to teach people about the Health fitness tracking software.

The apphas sections that can track data for bloodwork, heart rate, hydration, blood pressure, physical activity, nutrition, blood sugar, sleep, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and weight.

Apple is  currently be testing the Healthbook software with iOS 8, the next version of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system.

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, said a key feature of the app was its ability to send an automatic alert to a doctor if vital signs approach dangerous levels.

It comes as iPhone maker Foxconn has revealed Apple’s new iPhone 6 could be the first to be made using its ‘robot army’.

The firm has pledged to have a million robot workers by the end of the year – and CEO Terry Gou has revealed the robots, dubbed ‘Foxbots’, are in the final stages of testing.

It is believed Foxconn will install 10,000 robots as a test.

Lines dedicated to Apple devices getting first priority, according to IT Home.

It says Gou told a shareholder meeting that Apple would be the first company to take advantage of the new robot workers meaning that its next product – the iPhone 6 – will be manufactured in this way.

Each $25,000 Foxbot can complete an average of 30,000 devices per year it has been claimed.

Foxconn, which currently employs more than 1.2 million workers at its various factories across China.

However, the firm’s robot initiative has been delayed since it was first announced in 2011.

At the time, Gou said the company had about 10,000 units already in operation, a number that was supposed to rise to 300,000 in 2012, then one million by 2014.

However, the firm is also ramping up human workers for the iPhone 6, with 100,00 being hired according to some reports.

Dozens of pictures have leaked online claiming to show Apple’s iPhone 6.

They all show a thin, curved device with distinctive white ‘bars’ across the back.

However, a Japanese news agency has claimed that in fact, the finished product will look very different – and that it could even have a curved screen.

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VK,

Kansas,

20 minutes ago

It strikes me that Apple best get this perfect from the get-go, as there will be people relying on them for accurate cues about their health who will be only too happy to sue if they fall ill. (Note to self: sell Apple stock promptly.)

TheNotoriousROB,

The ATL, United States,

27 minutes ago

Like this isn’t going to be sent to the NSA, IRS, FBI, FAA, EPA, BLM, and your health insurers. One of those agencies will find something you’re doing wrong. Uh, no thanks.

Johnny Blood,

Green Bay, United States,

1 hour ago

Just what Obamacare ordered.

Stop this madness,

Huddersfield, United Kingdom,

2 hours ago

What do all these workers do once they have been replaced with robots?

Tommyb291,

Sunderland, United Kingdom,

2 hours ago

The main priority for apple should be making the battery last longer I have an iphone 5 and have to charge it twice a day it’s awful.

hindsight,

Bourne, United Kingdom,

3 hours ago

I hope you’re getting commission for these Apple ads DM.

expat,

Arizona, United States,

3 hours ago

A doctor wants you in the office so he/she can charge you for a checkup.

scrapiron,

oakham, United States,

51 minutes ago

just found out that docs push you for physicals twice a year because they make a lot more money then a regular visit

Billy Hoggreaser,

BlueGrassCountry-Kentucky, United States,

3 hours ago

Eat healthy work hard. You don’t need to check these apps on a constant basis.

HauntedHalo,

Birmingham, United Kingdom,

4 hours ago

I have apps for that anyway and j certainly wouldn’t want my info to my doctor.

Speaker,

Softie Land, United Kingdom,

4 hours ago

Yay you mean I can pay MORE for my health insurance?

scottyusa,

Windham, United States,

3 hours ago

Absolutely! Get less to boot. This thing will become a hackers paradise. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get paid by companies especially insurance companies to spy on us. You WILL be a health nut or else! Or else what you ask? The LIST….

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