Apple’s redesigned Health app is back in beta with iOS 27.3, and this time it supports French and global English instead of U.S. English only. The new app first showed up in early iOS 27.2 betas before Apple pulled it ahead of the final release.
On Tuesday, the company said the new Health app now supports global English, French, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese. When Apple first announced the redesign in September, it said the app would launch in U.S. English only, with more languages to follow.
Developers can try the redesigned app in the iOS 27.3 beta starting today, and Apple says it will roll out to everyone as a free software update later this year.
The app is built around Apple Intelligence and works on Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone and iPad models. A new Insights tab pulls together summaries of your heart, sleep, readiness, fitness, vitals and cycle tracking data throughout the day. A For You section offers suggestions based on your habits, like tweaking your wind-down routine after a few nights of poor sleep, along with videos and articles from Apple’s Health app clinical experts.
There’s also a new Longevity tab that looks at long-term trends across heart health, sleep, mental wellbeing, movement, metabolic health, hearing and nutrition. Its centrepiece is Health Age, which uses Apple Watch data such as VO2 max, resting heart rate, sleep and heart rate variability to show how your body is tracking compared with your actual age. You can also add lab results like A1c and LDL cholesterol for a fuller picture.
Apple is adding at-home movement tests too. Using your iPhone camera and Apple Watch, the app can measure flexibility, strength, balance, movement mechanics and VO2 max, with live audio and visual feedback. Apple says the vision-based AI models run entirely on your device, and no video is recorded, stored or shared.
Health Age requires an Apple Watch. The VO2 max test needs an Apple Watch, AirPods Pro 3 or a third-party heart rate sensor, and some features are limited to users 18 or older. Some features are only available on iPhone, and Apple warns that not every feature will be available in every region or language, so we’ll have to see exactly what Canadians get when the update ships.
The Health app was the one big feature missing when iOS 27.2 rolled out to everyone last week. Apple’s Sumbul Desai also walked through the Health app overhaul back in September.
Will you be switching your Health app to French once the update arrives, or are you sticking with English?
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