I’ve worn an Apple Watch for two years, and for the first time I truly understood my health data.

Recently, I discovered a way that made me re-evaluate the watch on my wrist.
Claude can directly read Apple Health data.
After authorization, it can access health data directly, help you organize, analyze, and even generate charts.
I tried it out, and the results were much more detailed than I expected. So, I’ll briefly write about: how to enable this feature, what data you can view, and what it has helped me discover. 👇
🌟 First, the limitation: available with US region IPs
Currently, only US region IPs have access to this feature; you need to change your IP address to the US to use it.
🌟 Step 1: Authorize Apple Health
Open the Claude iOS app, go to Settings, find Permissions.
Click in, and you’ll see the Health section, which is set to Never by default. Just change it to Authorized.
The whole process is very simple, about 30 seconds.
After authorization, Claude can only read your Health data and will not modify anything in the Health App.
🌟 Step 2: Ask it directly to analyze your health status
Once authorized, just type in the chat box:
“Help me analyze my recent health status”
It will automatically determine which data to read, for how long, and then generate an analysis report.
You don’t need to preset parameters or tell it “please analyze heart rate, sleep, steps.”
Of course, if you want more detailed insights, you can ask directly:
- Analyze my heart rate trend over the last 30 days
- How is my sleep quality?
- Are my steps enough recently?
- When was my heart rate the highest?
🌟 What data can it read?
At first, I thought it could only look at steps and heart rate, but the range is actually much broader than I imagined.
- Activity data includes: steps, walking/running distance, floors climbed, active calories, exercise minutes, standing time.
- Cardiac data includes: heart rate, resting heart rate, HRV, walking heart rate, blood pressure.
- Sleep data includes: sleep analysis, wrist temperature.
- Vital signs include: blood oxygen saturation, respiration rate.
- Body data includes: weight, height, BMI, body fat percentage.
🌟 What has it helped me discover?
I tested my own data, and the most obvious feeling is:
Many numbers alone don’t mean much, but when viewed together, they reveal issues.
My resting heart rate looks normal, but my walking heart rate is high.
My resting heart rate is 63 bpm, which is actually pretty good on its own.
But it also found that my walking heart rate is as high as 120 bpm.
In other words, just walking, but my heart already needs to accelerate significantly.
Its assessment is: my aerobic base might be weak, and my body’s efficiency in handling light activity isn’t great.
I wouldn’t be able to see this conclusion just by looking at the Health App.
Because I usually only look at individual numbers and don’t compare resting heart rate, walking heart rate, and activity intensity together.
🌟 Final thoughts
If you already meet the usage conditions, I think this feature is worth trying.
Its greatest value isn’t just “AI has a new feature,” but that it can truly organize the scattered numbers in the Health App into a comprehensible overview of your physical condition.
In the past, when I opened the Health App, I saw steps, heart rate, sleep time, calories.
I knew what each number meant, but it was hard to connect them.
After analyzing with Claude this time, I felt for the first time that the data recorded by the Apple Watch isn’t just a bunch of isolated figures.
The experience felt like hiring a personal doctor. 😂