Apple Is Working on an AI-Powered Health Coach With Customized Programs for Users [Report]

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Apple Is Working on an AI-Powered Health Coach With Customized Programs for Users [Report]

Apple will use artificial intelligence (AI) in its upcoming health coaching app. According to a report, it will be called "Quartz" and announced this year.

Apple Developing an AI-Powered Health Coach

According to Bloomberg, an AI-powered health coach may assist you in developing better exercise, sleeping, and eating routines. Quartz will develop coaching programs and provide suggestions based on user data from an Apple Watch using AI.

One of the new health efforts included in Bloomberg's report is the new Quartz service (and app). For instance, iPadOS 17 will consist of a specialized version of the Health app for the iPad. In addition, Apple is developing a separate emotion tracker from its anticipated journaling app and additional nearsightedness-friendly features. Apple did not immediately respond for comment, according to The Verge.

These additional functions would add to Apple's expanding health-related capabilities already included in its products. For instance, it runs its premium Fitness Plus service, which adds new workouts every week, and debuted a medicine tracking function last year, Jay Peters of The Verge added.

Additional wellness features are reportedly in the works, including yoga lessons, a meditation app, and support for Fitness Plus are supposedly included in the company's upcoming mixed reality headgear.

However, as Peters' colleague Victoria Song added, they would have to wait a very long time before Apple succeeds in its noninvasive blood glucose monitoring goal.

Apple is not the only one working on improving its services. Finland's Oura Ring also added chronotypes for users to look into their sleeping patterns.

It aims to help users look into their sleep health and their multidimensional pattern of sleep-wakefulness for their physical and mental well-being.

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AI-Powered App for Nutrient Deficiencies

AI applications have been growing tremendously. A high school student developed an app that could identify nutrient deficiencies by analyzing fingernails.

Rian Tiwarihas, a high school student at South Brunswick High School in New Jersey, was bored during the COVID pandemic, and his father told him to think about ikagai, a Japanese concept that gives a person a sense of purpose.

He created an algorithm that runs a data set obtained from the open-source website Kaggle through a machine-learning platform. The app's opening image is a picture of a nail. After that, it will determine whether the user is healthy or unwell using a device-based neural network to scan for cracks, ridges, peeling, and discoloration.

When a folate shortage is found, the app will suggest foods like asparagus, spinach, and sunflower seeds to the fingernail owner.

The software also keeps track of medical data and analytics and gives suggestions from earlier scans.

The inner eyelids and lips can also display symptoms of vitamin shortages, and Tiwari aims to have the app evaluate photographs of those areas too. Additionally, he sought to increase the functionality of apps by recommending supplements and pharmaceuticals.

Tiwari hopes to release the app for both Android and iOS devices after the pilot test this year.