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Apple is working on a major upgrade to its Health app, introducing an AI-powered health coach designed to provide personalised wellness advice based on users’ health data. According to Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman, the new feature—tentatively called Health+—is expected to launch with iOS 19.4 in the spring or summer of 2026.
“The initiative is called Project Mulberry, and it involves a completely revamped Health app plus a health coach,” Gurman wrote in his latest Power On newsletter. “The service would be powered by a new AI agent that would replicate—at least to some extent—a real doctor.” The AI coach is being trained using data from staff physicians, with Apple reportedly looking to bring in external experts in sleep, nutrition, physical therapy, mental health, and cardiology to create educational videos.
Gurman notes that Apple is also searching for a “major doctor personality” to serve as a host. “The idea is this: The Health app will continue to collect data from your devices (whether that’s the iPhone, Apple Watch, earbuds or third-party products), and then the AI coach will use that information to offer tailor-made recommendations about ways to improve health,” Gurman explains. This could include food tracking, workout analysis using the iPhone’s camera, and even video explainers for health risks based on a user’s data.
Apple’s efforts align with its broader Apple Intelligence initiative, integrating AI seamlessly into its ecosystem. “The company is currently training the AI agent with data from physicians that it has on staff,” Gurman says. “Apple is also looking to bring in outside doctors.
.. to create videos that would serve as explainers to users about certain conditions and how to make lifestyle improvements.
” With health technology a top priority for Apple, Gurman suggests the project is moving “full steam ahead”, and there’s speculation that WWDC in June could offer the first glimpse of Health+ as part of the iOS 19 reveal..
