Apple expands HealthKit in iOS 9 to track sexual activity, ovulation, UV exposure, water intake

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  • Reply 21 of 66
    luinilluinil Posts: 59member

    I'd like Apple to add more lab results categories.

    Each year I have a medical checkup, and blood and urine analysis results and try to keep a record of them but as they don't have any category in HealthKit I have to continue to maintain a numbers file.

  • Reply 22 of 66
    chris_cachris_ca Posts: 2,543member
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    Originally Posted by DougD View Post

    This is absurd

    What is?

    Allowing you to track data?

  • Reply 23 of 66
    thebuddathebudda Posts: 30member
    Great, a feature to tell me how much I'm not having sex.
  • Reply 24 of 66
    mr. h wrote: »
    How exactly does one judge "Cervical Mucus Quality”? And does it have a numerical scale or is it qualitative?

    Adding to what iaeen said above, the "stretchiness" of the mucus is also considered (meaning, how far you can stretch the mucus between thumb and index finger). The longer the stretch the better your chances of getting pregnant (or avoiding pregnancy) are.
  • Reply 25 of 66
    robmrobm Posts: 1,068member
    There is way too much detail in this thread.

    Cervical mucus - added to the "things I don't need to know about." list
    :D
  • Reply 26 of 66
    hentaiboyhentaiboy Posts: 1,252member
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    Er Honey...I seem to have lost my watch...

  • Reply 27 of 66
    stephanjobsstephanjobs Posts: 284member
    Or how about buttons for

    "Was the dinner movie and drinks worth it?"
    Yes-No

    Or

    Stood-up?
  • Reply 28 of 66
    thepixeldocthepixeldoc Posts: 2,257member
    Marvin wrote: »

    Surely if you're hitting mucus you're just reaching in too far. Yeah I'll leave it at that.

    hentaiboy wrote: »
    Er Honey...I seem to have lost my watch...

    Oh my! The naughty thoughts are swirling and all I can think of , is there a Find My Watch setting? :smokey:
  • Reply 29 of 66
    I like this updated feature ... and totally agreed with @wood1208 it's just a sexual health feature and not to be associated with porn sexual to down play apple.
  • Reply 30 of 66
    Clearly female reproduction is a mystery to our moderators. For people who use these signs to target ovulation for conception this is helpful as well as for avoiding ovulation. For the 10 year old boys who must be posting comments, girly parts are yucky to you, huh?
  • Reply 31 of 66
    relicrelic Posts: 4,735member
    Oh great, my husband will now know when I'm faking it. Wait, you know what, I was wondering why he bought me an Apple Watch and keeps asking me to wear it during relations, that sneaky bastard.
  • Reply 32 of 66
    philboogiephilboogie Posts: 7,675member
    relic wrote: »
    Oh great, my husband will now know when I'm faking it. Wait, you know what, I was wondering why he bought me an Apple Watch and keeps asking me to wear it during relations, that sneaky bastard.

    Too funny!

    (Never, ever, lose that sense of humour of yours Relic - it enriches my day)
  • Reply 33 of 66

    Err-- well, some of this I'd rather not track, but TBH, other stuff is awesome, for health reasons-- menstruation tracking, water intake, and UV exposure all impact me tremendously (and I'm supposed to be monitoring it), so I'm thrilled they're added.

     

    Some of this is really cool... And reading about features like this, makes me thrilled that Apple is taking the stance they are on privacy. There are HMOs that would salivate to get this type of data and price accordingly-- employers with large health plans, too, for that matter.

  • Reply 34 of 66
    relicrelic Posts: 4,735member
    xserenityx wrote: »
    Err-- well, some of this I'd rather not track, but TBH, other stuff is awesome, for health reasons-- menstruation tracking, water intake, and UV exposure all impact me tremendously (and I'm supposed to be monitoring it), so I'm thrilled they're added.

    Some of this is really cool... And reading about features like this, makes me thrilled that Apple is taking the stance they are on privacy. There are HMOs that would salivate to get this type of data and price accordingly-- employers with large health plans, too, for that matter.

    Privacy and privates, best of both worlds.
  • Reply 35 of 66
    relicrelic Posts: 4,735member
    philboogie wrote: »
    Too funny!

    (Never, ever, lose that sense of humour of yours Relic - it enriches my day)

    Ha, thanx, he's just happy that the watch band had some length to it, as it helped him greatly during the tricky removal process. You know, I just wanted him to know and really feel how much I appreciated his gift by maximizing his investment to the deepest way possible, ah, ah, I mean fullest.
  • Reply 36 of 66
    sestewartsestewart Posts: 102member

    again, this is more useless tracking of something in a visual spreadsheet that cannot compute any math whatsoever. 

     

    What good is tracking this data if Apple doesn't utilize formulas to calculate other components in the data for you? Is the apple watch going to calculate your UV exposure? or is the ovulation cycle data point going to pre-calculate your next period? No, it won't. You, the user, must count the days yourself, and calculate it by hand or another program and then enter another data set. 

     

    Same with BMI calculations. Apple is lazy and won't make healthkit populate this data for you when the requirements are met. They make you, the user, figure it out. 

     

    This is nothing more than what could be tracked in a giant spreadsheet. And Excel does something else.. math. 

  • Reply 37 of 66
    hmmhmm Posts: 3,405member
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    Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton View Post



    Heh. It occurred to me during sex that the motion sensor/gyroscope on the Watch could probably determine when sexual activity was taking place and my positions, if any app wanted to parse the motion data for that! Heck it could probably also determine how many calories I burned. I'm sure someone will write an app for that. image

    It doesn't burn that many calories. It's a silly urban myth. Do it because it's fun.

     

     

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Marvin View Post









    Now we're talking. Add an exercise loop for that and I'll have it done before breakfast.

    It can track this automatically:





    I read through this post too quickly. It made it much funnier than intended.

  • Reply 38 of 66
    relicrelic Posts: 4,735member
    Stupid Post, so I deleted it.
  • Reply 39 of 66
    They already have the iPad when are they bringing out the iTampon?
  • Reply 40 of 66
    relicrelic Posts: 4,735member
    Repost of the stupid post which was posted my mistake.
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