Apple finally gives Siri the power to tell you such things as your current elevation and the ETA to your destination while navigating in Maps, but Siri benefits from even greater integration with that of your iPhone Health application.
With Apple iOS 17.2 software update, currently in beta, Siri can answer personal health and fitness questions regarding data saved in the Health app. This means you can ask Siri questions like “How many steps have I taken so far today?” or “When was the last time I had abdominal cramps?” without building complicated Manually shortcut Siri in the Shortcuts application.
Better yet, you can ask Siri to record your health information, such as the medication you just took or your current weight. And it also works to record fitness activities like running, cycling, or hard workouts. These features are now integrated into Siri with iOS 17.2. So you no longer have to worry about confusing “Record Health Sample” or “Record Workout” actions in the shortcuts to make Siri do what you want.
What you need for Siri’s new health skills
Although you can ask Siri to start certain activities like a 30-minute outdoor run on your iPhone or Apple Watch, you won’t be able to have it record sports and fitness activity data for you without creating those long Siri shortcuts I keep mentioning. . And it certainly wouldn’t record medical data like medication doses or menstrual cycles for you.
WatchOS 10.2, also currently in beta, allows Siri queries for data points in the Health app and logging capabilities, but only on the Apple Watch Series 9 And Apple Watch Ultra2 models. This is available on watchOS 10.2 since beta 2.
Likewise, most of the new Siri skills for health in iOS 17.2 appeared first on beta 2 release, but they are not limited by device model. Any iPhone model that supports iOS 17.2 should be able to use Siri to request health data or record health activity. Some queries appeared in Beta 1, such as basic queries that would simply open the Health app to the corresponding topic.
What type of health data can you request or record
Almost everything that appears as a data point available in the “Find health samples where”, “Save health sample” and “Save workout” actions in the shortcuts will now work with Siri by default. For some topics you can only request information and not record data.
Some queries will allow Siri to immediately display and communicate information to you, while others will simply open the Health app to access related information. Siri can find information about specific dates or periods for certain topics, such as body temperature and step count. For example:
- What is my basal temperature?
- What was my basal body temperature this week/month/year?
- What was my basal body temperature last week/month/year?
To save data points, you can ask Siri to simply “Save my (subject) as (data)” and Siri will save it to the Health app for the current date and time. In some cases, you can ask Siri to record information from the past, such as the medications you took yesterday or a workout you forgot to add last week.
Most of the following topics are supported for Siri queries and logging:
- Abdominal cramps
- Acne
- Active energy
- Activity Rings
- History of atrial fibrillation
- Alcohol consumption
- Changes in appetite
- Basal body temperature
- Biotin
- Bladder incontinence
- Bloating
- Blood alcohol content
- Blood sugar levels
- Blood oxygen
- Arterial pressure
- Body and muscle pain
- Body fat percentage
- Body mass index
- Body temperature
- Breast pain
- Caffeine
- Calcium
- Carbohydrates
- Cardio fitness
- Cardiac recovery
- Quality of cervical mucus
- chest tightness or pain
- Chills
- Chloride
- Chromium
- Congestion
- Constipation
- Copper
- To cough
- Cycling distance
- Diarrhea
- Diastolic blood pressure
- Dietary cholesterol
- Food energy
- Food sugar
- Dizziness
- Doubled support time
- Downhill Snow Sports Distance
- Dry skin
- Electrodermal activity
- Environmental sound levels
- Minutes of exercise
- Fainting
- Fatigue
- Fever
- Fiber
- Thefts have increased
- Folate
- Forced expiratory volume, 1 second
- Forced vital capacity
- Ground contact time
- Hair loss
- Hand washing
- Headache
- Headphone audio levels
- Heartbeat
- Heart rate variability
- Stomach pains
- Height
- High heart rate notifications
- Hot flashes
- Using the inhaler
- Insulin administration
- lodine
- Iron
- Irregular rhythm notifications
- Thin body mass
- Loss of smell
- Loss of taste
- Low heart rate notifications
- Lower back pain
- Magnesium
- Manganese
- Medicine
- Memory loss
- Menstruation
- Mindfulness minutes
- Minutes exercised
- Molybdenum
- Monounsaturated fat
- Mood changes
- Move minutes
- Nausea
- Niacin
- Night sweats
- Nike Fuel
- Number of times fallen
- Ovulation test result
- Pantothenic acid
- Peak expiratory flow
- Pelvic pain
- Peripheral perfusion index
- Phosphorus
- Polyunsaturated fat
- Potassium
- Protein
- Shoot
- Fast, pounding, or throbbing heartbeat
- Respiratory rate
- Resting energy
- Resting heart rate
- Riboflavin
- Running distance
- Operating power
- Running speed
- Running stride length
- Runny nose
- saturated fat
- Selenium
- Sexual activity
- Shortness of breath
- Six minutes on foot
- Skipped heartbeat
- Sleep
- Sleep changes
- Sodium
- Sore throat
- Spotting
- Stair Speed: Down
- Stair speed: up
- Minutes standing
- Not
- Swimming distance
- Swimming strokes
- Systolic blood pressure
- Thiamine
- Brushing your teeth
- Total fat
- Underwater depth
- UV index
- Vaginal dryness
- Vertical oscillation
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B6
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin E
- Vitamin K
- Vomiting
- Waist size
- Walking + running distance
- Gait asymmetry
- Walking distance
- Average heart rate while walking
- Walking speed
- Walking stability
- Walking step length
- Water
- Water temperature
- Weight
- Wheelchair distance
- Wheezing
- Wrist temperature
- Zinc
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