Using apps like “my fitness App” or “track your activity using an Apple Watch” guarantees your iPhone to know a lot about your health, if given permission, Apps can easily access your data. Are you aware that you can use apps in tracking your weight, Calories, blood pressure and more? Indeed health apps make it easy to learn about your health and focus on how to reach your goal, to crown it all, you can view all your progress in a convenient place. It keeps you motivated by showing you how much you move; it joins “activity data” from iPhone (your steps and distance covered). It works alongside with apple watch because apple watch records simple but meaningful kinds of movement, like how frequent you stand, how frequent you exercise, and the calories burn.
There are four categories in “Health App” they include- Activity, Sleep, Mindfulness, and Nutrition. Each plays a very big important role in your overall health; it also suggests great apps from each category. The truth is that millions of iPhone health data users have testified the usefulness of this apps, do u wish to see how this apps works? Or you have no knowledge of how to control which apps that can access your iPhone data, this article will help you a whole lot, follow the steps gradually and see how it works.
How to Controls Apps That Can Access Your Health Data
There are some health data possible you might not see useful, and you will not like to be tracked at all, there are also others that you Don’t mind if Apple sees them or not but you will not hand over the apps, indeed this requires control and is just something you can control within the health apps. To get started:
Open the health app on your iPhone and Click on “SOURCE” you will see the “source” at the bottom of the screen. At this point you will get to see all the apps that have beseeched gaining access to your health data, if not to read existing health apps, it will be to add new health data. Clicking on the “INDIVIDUAL APP,” helps you to gain useful informations on the data to which it has access. Not only that, you can still see the data “UNINSTALLED APPS” has accessed by clicking on “Uninstall App.”
There are easy to reach buttons at the top of the screen to remove all access but if you need to know why apps need access, don’t worry, there are short explanations in regard s to that. Note that your memory can be jogged if it happens to be an old app.
If you would like to disable the app access, to all types of health data, click on “turn all categories on” but if you would want to disable just some categories, take your cursor to that health apps, click on turn off, immediately that app is turned off.
Repeat the process again; you will find out that you have successfully controlled apps that access your health data.
