Apple to Redesign Health App with AI-Powered Virtual Doctor

Highlights

• Apple’s Project Mulberry aims to enhance its Health app with an AI-powered health coach
• It will offer personalised advice based on Apple device data, food tracking, expert-led videos, and workout analysis using device cameras

Apple is apparently designing an AI-powered doctor, a revised version of the Health app, and a new health coach under the name Project Mulberry. The Mulberry project aims to enhance virtual healthcare consultations by incorporating advanced technology and AI-powered coaches, enhancing patient experience and communication between patients and healthcare providers. The project is currently under testing.

A new edition of its Health app – “Health+” – will use an AI agent or an LLM to examine and provide insights into a person’s health data. It will apparently collect data from your Apple gadgets, like as an Apple Watch monitoring your heart rate, and then make healthcare suggestions based on it. For example, offering certain foods to someone exhibiting indicators of high blood pressure.

Apple is already collaborating with a team of in-house physicians and intends to bring in additional doctors from various specialities to generate instructive video content. It is also apparently seeking for a celebrity doctor to serve as a linchpin for the program. The newly redesigned software might also serve as something of a personal trainer, with the iPhone camera being used to capture video of users’ workouts, with the app subsequently proposing technique improvements.

The development is progressing at a rapid pace, and the new version may launch with iOS 19.4, which is expected to be launched by early 2026.