The redesigned Health app is currently available only through the iOS 27.2 public beta, and trying it means enrolling your iPhone in Apple’s beta program before it reaches a stable release in October. The rebuilt app adds Apple Intelligence features across the board, including new Insights and Longevity tabs.
How to Get the Redesigned Health App Right Now
- Back up your iPhone before installing any beta software.
- Open Settings, tap General, then Software Update, then Beta Updates.
- Select the iOS 27.2 Public Beta.
- Go back to Software Update and install iOS 27.2 once it appears.
The redesigned Health app opens automatically once the update finishes installing, no separate download is needed.
Insights and Longevity Are the Two New Tabs
The Insights tab pulls together trends across your health data instead of leaving you to check each metric separately, and the Longevity tab is built around Apple Intelligence, surfacing patterns tied to long-term health rather than a single day’s numbers. Both tabs sit alongside the existing Summary and Sharing sections rather than replacing them.
The tabs on the top show quick glance information such as steps and heart rate, and tapping on either of them brings in the full view with full details of your health information in the Fitness and Health categories. Tapping on the heart icon on the top left brings you back to the Insights tab home screen, which also shows summary cards for Heart and Fitness health, as well as movement, sleep and mental well being content.
For Longevity, you see your current status which is a visual broken down into 7 sections which include hearing, sleep, metabolic health, heart, movement, nutrition, and mental wellbeing. For mental wellbeing, there are some assessments that you can take to fill in data for anxiety, depression, mental outlook, stress, and wellbeing practices. There are many other assessments for the other categories, some of which use your iPhone’s camera, that help you fill in the data and get a reliable score.
For Health Age, you can set it up with one top, after which you can recommendations on how you can improve it through cardio, exercise, steps, improving resting heart rate, and more. If you wear your watch to sleep, you can also get additional information which includes HRV (Heart Rate Variability) and Sleep Score.
You can still go to browse section to get raw data and graphs for all the metrics that you are tracking whether they are from your Apple Watch, or from other apps and devices that feed into your Health app.
Apple Watch owners running the Watch Ultra 4 Readiness bezel or Apple Watch Series 12 will see their Readiness score reflected in the redesigned app as well, since Readiness pulls from the same Health data these tabs are built on.
Public betas can carry bugs that a finished release won’t have, so installing one on a primary iPhone is a real trade-off. If you’d rather wait, iOS 27.2 is expected to ship as a stable release in October, bringing the redesigned Health app to everyone without the beta risk.
The Longevity tab is the one worth using once it lands, since it’s the first time Apple Intelligence is doing something with Health data beyond a chart. Unless you specifically want early access, waiting for the stable October release is the safer call for a phone you rely on daily.
