iOS 15

Share your data in Health on iPod touch

You can share health data stored in the Health app —such as health alerts and trends—with friends, family, and others caring for you.

Share health data with someone close to you

People you share health data with can also view the health notifications you receive, including high heart rate and irregular rhythm notifications. You can also share notifications for significant trends, such as a steep decline in activity.

To share with somebody, you need to include them in your contacts, and they need an iPod touch with iOS 15 or later.

Tap Sharing at the bottom of the screen.
Do one of the following:
- Set up sharing for the first time: Tap Share with Someone.
- Share with an additional contact: Tap “Add another person,” then tap Next.
Use the search field to find someone in your contacts list.
To select someone, tap their contact information.
Tap See Suggested Topics or Set Up Manually.
Choose topics to share.
Scroll down to see all topics on a screen, then tap Next to see the next screen.
Tap Share, then tap Done.

Your invitation appears as a notification on your contact’s iPod touch and on their Sharing screen in Health, where they can accept or decline your invitation.

You receive a notification when your invitation is accepted.

Share health data with your doctor

You can share health data (such as heart rate, exercise minutes, hours of sleep, lab results, and heart health notifications) with your doctors. Doctors view the data in a dashboard in their health records systems (U.S. only; on systems that support Health app data Share with Provider).

Tap Sharing at the bottom of the screen.
Do one of the following:
- Set up sharing for the first time: Tap “Share with your doctor.”
- Share with an additional provider: Tap “Share with another doctor.”
Tap Next, then select one of the suggested providers, or use Search to find your provider.
If Connect to Account appears, tap it, enter the user name and password you use for the patient web portal for that account, then follow the onscreen instructions.
In addition to sharing your health data, connecting to your account also causes your health records for that account to download to Health.
Choose topics to share with your doctor.
Scroll down to see all topics on a screen, then tap Next to see the next screen.
Tap Share, then tap Done.

Review or change the data you’re sharing with others

Tap Sharing at the bottom of the screen.
Tap the name of a person or a healthcare provider.
Scroll down, then tap View Shared Data.
Make any changes, then tap Done.

Stop sharing data with a contact or a provider

Tap Sharing at the bottom of the screen.
Tap the name of a person or a healthcare provider.
Tap Stop Sharing or Remove Account.

Note: If you start sharing data with someone, simply removing them from Contacts doesn’t stop the information from being shared.

Share health and fitness data with apps and devices

You can give other apps permission to share health and fitness data with Health. For example, if you install a workout app, its exercise data can appear in Health. The workout app can also read and make use of data (such as your heart rate and weight) shared by other devices and apps. If you didn’t give an app permission to share data with Health when you set up the app, you can give permission later. You can also remove permission from an app.

To share your records from healthcare providers with apps, see Share your health records with other apps.

Tap your profile picture or initials at the top right.
If you don’t see your profile picture or initials, tap Summary or Browse at the bottom of the screen, then scroll to the top of the screen.
Below Privacy, tap Apps or Devices.
The screen lists the items that requested access to Health data.
To change the access for an item, tap it, then turn on or off permission to write data to—or read data from—Health.

Share your health and fitness data in XML format

You can export all of your health and fitness data from Health in XML format, which is a common format for sharing data between apps.

Tap your profile picture or initials at the top right.
If you don’t see your profile picture or initials, tap Summary or Browse at the bottom of the screen, then scroll to the top of the screen.
Tap Export all health data, then choose a method for sharing your data.

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iPod touch User Guide