Apple is reportedly working on a larger role for its Health app: not just collecting health information, but using it to give users advice. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company is developing a new version of the app that includes an AI coach designed to help users get healthier.
The reported service is tentatively called Health+. Its advice would be based on data from across users’ medical devices, and the revamp would reportedly include food tracking.
What Apple is reportedly building
The central new feature is an AI coach inside a revamped Health app. Gurman reports that the coach would be able to advise users on how to get healthier, drawing on data from across their medical devices.
That matters because it changes the Health app’s role. A health app that only gathers information leaves users to interpret much of that information themselves. A health app with an AI coach would move closer to turning that information into guidance.
The source does not describe the full interface or the exact kinds of recommendations users would see. It does, however, identify the main ingredients of the reported plan:
- A new version of Apple’s Health app
- An AI coach that can advise users on how to get healthier
- Advice based on data from across users’ medical devices
- Food tracking as part of the experience
- A tentative service name: Health+
Each of those pieces points to a more active health product. Instead of simply presenting separate categories of information, the app could become a place where health data, food tracking, and AI-generated advice meet.
Why food tracking is part of the story
Food tracking is one of the few specific features named in the report. The source does not give details about how it would work, what users would enter, or how the AI coach would use that information.
Even so, its inclusion is notable because food data can provide context for broader health advice. If Apple wants an AI coach to give users recommendations about getting healthier, food tracking could give that coach another category of user-provided information alongside data from medical devices.
The report does not say whether food tracking would be required, optional, automated, manual, or connected to any other product. The important point is narrower: Apple is reportedly making food tracking part of the Health app revamp tied to the AI coach.
How Apple is training the coach
According to Gurman, the AI coach is currently being trained on data from staff physicians. Apple is also looking to bring in additional doctors to record health-related videos.
Those details suggest that the company is not only treating the feature as a generic chatbot. The training and video plans described in the report connect the project to physician input, at least at this stage of development.
The source does not explain what those health-related videos would contain, where they would appear, or whether they would be personalized. It also does not name the doctors Apple may bring in. What is clear from the report is that Apple is using staff physicians in the current training process and is seeking additional doctors for recorded health content.
That approach would fit the reported goal of giving users health advice while keeping the feature tied to medical expertise. But the report stops short of saying how Apple will present, limit, or validate that advice when the service reaches users.
When Health+ could arrive
Gurman first reported that something like this was in the works back in 2023. The latest report says development is now moving ahead.
The timing remains framed as potential, not final. The new features could arrive as soon as spring or summer of 2026, with the release of iOS 19.4.
That means the Health app revamp is still best understood as a reported plan rather than a released product. The name Health+ is also described as tentative, so the branding could change before launch.
For users, the main takeaway is that Apple may be preparing a major Health app update around AI-assisted guidance. If the report is accurate, iOS 19.4 could bring a Health app that combines medical device data, food tracking, physician-informed training, and an AI coach into one service.
What remains unknown
The report leaves several important questions unanswered. It does not say exactly what advice the AI coach will give, how much control users will have over the data used, or how the Health+ service will be packaged.
It also does not say whether every reported feature will arrive at the same time. The timing is described as as soon as spring or summer of 2026, which leaves room for Apple’s plans to shift.
For now, the clearest picture is this: Apple is reportedly advancing a new version of the Health app that uses AI to turn health-related data into advice. The project has been associated with work first reported in 2023, is now said to be moving ahead, and may appear with iOS 19.4 under the tentative name Health+.