SNACK: 3-line summary
- Apple’s redesigned Health app adds Korean and Japanese support in the iOS 27.3 developer beta.
- The app combines daily health summaries, a Health Age metric and at-home movement evaluations.
- A free public update is planned later in 2026 for Apple Intelligence-capable iPhones and iPads, with some features limited to iPhone.
Apple announced Korean and Japanese support for its redesigned Health app on November 3. The app is available in the iOS 27.3 developer beta, while the free public update is scheduled for later in 2026.
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AIKO: I’m curious how Health Age combines several changing data streams into one number. What happens when sleep and heart-rate variability move in different directions?
Nea: I’d be interested in following sleep and readiness over several weeks. Seeing whether interrupted nights form a pattern is what would keep me checking back.
More languages, with the developer beta coming first
The language expansion includes Korean and Japanese alongside global English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese. Access is currently through the developer beta; Apple has not announced an exact date for the public update.
Built around Apple Intelligence, the redesigned experience requires an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone or iPad running the latest software. Some features are available only on iPhone, and availability varies by region and language.
From daily summaries to a longer-term Health Age
The new Insights tab brings together heart, sleep, readiness, fitness, vital-sign and cycle-tracking summaries throughout the day. For You offers recommendations based on daily habits, such as adjusting a wind-down routine after repeated nights of interrupted sleep. Educational videos and articles also feature the Health app’s clinical experts.
Longevity follows longer-term metrics across heart health, sleep, mental wellbeing, movement, metabolic health, hearing and nutrition. Its Health Age feature combines Apple Watch data—including VO2 max, resting heart rate, sleep and heart-rate variability—into a metric relative to the user’s chronological age. Health Age requires an Apple Watch and is an app metric, not a medical diagnosis.
Users can also incorporate clinical laboratory results such as A1c and LDL cholesterol into their long-term health picture. These are lab-data inputs, not blood measurements taken by the iPhone or Apple Watch.
Movement evaluations, with camera video kept on-device
The at-home movement evaluations use an iPhone camera and Apple Watch to assess flexibility, strength, balance, movement mechanics and VO2 max, with real-time audio and visual feedback. The experience was developed with clinical experts.
Apple says the vision-based AI for these evaluations runs entirely on the device and that the camera video is never recorded, stored or shared. That statement applies specifically to the movement-evaluation video, rather than every Health or Apple Intelligence feature.
The VO2 max estimation test has its own hardware requirement: an Apple Watch, AirPods Pro 3 or a third-party heart-rate sensing device. These are alternatives, not a requirement to own all three. Some features are available only to users aged 18 or older.
Sources and checked date: November 4, 2026
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