TechTabletsA very cool Apple Pencil patent idea also hints at Apple Health coming to iPadApple’s health message is a new spin on an old slogan: keep taking the tabletsWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechTabletsA very cool Apple Pencil patent idea also hints at Apple Health coming to iPadApple’s health message is a new spin on an old slogan: keep taking the tabletsWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Apple’s health message is a new spin on an old slogan: keep taking the tablets
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Apple)
(Image credit: Apple)
As much as I love theAppleHealth app, I can’t access its data on myiPad Air: the data from my iPhone and myApple Watch Series 7has nowhere to go on any of Apple’s iPads. But that may be about to change. A newly discoveredpatentshows a redesigned Apple Health app with an important role for the Apple Pencil. No, not as a thermometer.
The mock-ups look to me like they’re designed for healthcare workers to use: the presence of name and date of birth fields at the top of the supplied images alongside links for different categories – wellness, tabs and conditions – looks rather like traditional paper-based medical documents that you hang on the base of a hospital bed.
(Image credit: USPTO)
(Image credit: USPTO)
Even better would be if the Scratchpad became a common thing in iPad apps – a way to combine taking notes with text input makes a lot of sense. It’d be great in recipe apps, in journalling apps, in budgeting apps… anything that deals with a lot of information.
The rest of Apple’s patent is all about sleep: sleep data, “awakening events”, sleep sessions and more. That suggests that it’s sleep tracking that’s really keeping Apple’s engineers awake at night, with more detailed sleep tracking coming to future iPhones and Apple Watches. As ever with patents, there’s no guarantees that anything detailed in the patent will become an actual product, but it’s an interesting insight into Apple’s current thinking.
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