Apple’s revamped Health app will calculate your ‘health age’ and readiness score

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September 9, 2026, 6:16 PM

• •The redesigned Apple Health app includes a new Insights tab with timely summaries, personalized guidance, and assessments.
• •A new Health Age feature compares metrics like VO2 max, sleep, and blood biomarkers with a user's actual age.
• •The app adds a readiness score and a longevity tab focused on sleep, movement, heart health, and related measures.
• •Apple said lab data can be folded into the app's guidance through a Quest partnership offering a 50-biomarker panel for $119.
• •The rollout is scheduled for later this year, starting with U.S. English.

Apple introduced a redesigned Health app alongside new Apple Watch models, adding AI-powered summaries, guidance, and new health scoring tools. The app will calculate a user's Health Age by comparing health metrics such as VO2 max, sleep, and blood biomarkers with their chronological age. It also adds a readiness score and a longevity tab that evaluates sleep, movement, heart health, and other factors using data from Apple devices and lab results. Apple said the updated app will begin rolling out later this year in U.S. English.

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