Apple may launch Health+ with AI nutrition & wellness advice

An Apple each day becomes your doctor someday. That’s the rumor anyway: Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on nutrition, exercise and more.
Whether the service will someday give out medical diagnoses is a much murkier question.
Apple helps you get healthy
Beginning with the iPhone’s simple step tracker, Apple has steadily expanded its presence in health and wellness. With the 2014 launch of the Health app, Apple created a central hub for users to manage fitness, nutrition and medical data. The Apple Watch built on this foundation, adding heart rate monitoring, ECG capabilities, fall detection, blood oxygen measurement and more.
A Health+ service seems a logical next step. And one is allegedly on the way.
“Apple’s upcoming Health+ subscription will feature an artificial intelligence-powered assistant, allowing users to manage their well-being through personalized recommendations on nutrition, exercise and sleep,” Bloomberg reported on Thursday. “That service is planned for launch in 2026.”
Apple Health+ seems more about wellness
Apple Watch wearers should already be familiar with getting exercise advice from their wrist. And Apple’s Fitness+ service provides coaching. Health+ can join in on making users more physically fit.
As for food, getting nutrition advice from artificial intelligence is a very 2025 thing to do. There are already third-party apps like Cal AI that let users snap pictures of their meals and see a nutritional breakdown. It seems Apple is getting into the same game with Health+.
But there are real questions about whether the service will ever take the next step and have the service act like a doctor and provide medical diagnoses. AI is outstanding at pattern recognition, so it can take a list of symptoms and recommend a treatment, but it’s not capable of noting what the patient isn’t saying about their medical problem, and that can completely throw off the diagnosis.
At most, the service might eventually help patients decide whether they should see a doctor. Or maybe not. There’s the question of accountability. If Health+ incorrectly tells someone they have a minor ailment but they die the next day because they didn’t get urgently needed medical attention, Apple is on the hook for a potentially massive lawsuit.