Apple preps all-new Health app with AI doctor (2025)

Apple’s health division is developing a project dubbed “Project Mulberry,” which features an all-new Health app paired with a virtual health coach. This service would leverage a new “AI doctor” designed to emulate, to a certain degree, the capabilities of a human physician.

Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
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Apple’s health team is working on something that could have a quicker payoff — and help the company finally deliver on Cook’s vision. The initiative is called Project Mulberry, and it involves a completely revamped Health app plus a health coach. The service would be powered by a new AI agent that would replicate — at least to some extent — a real doctor…

The idea is this: The Health app will continue to collect data from your devices (whether that’s the iPhone, Apple Watch, earbuds or third-party products), and then the AI coach will use that information to offer tailor-made recommendations about ways to improve health…

Apple is also looking to bring in outside doctors, including experts in sleep, nutrition, physical therapy, mental health and cardiology, to create videos. That content would serve as explainers to users about certain conditions and how to make lifestyle improvements.

Apple is opening up a facility near Oakland, California, that will let the physicians shoot their video content for the app. It’s also seeking to find a major doctor personality to serve as a host of sorts for the new service, which some within Apple have tentatively dubbed “Health+.”

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MacDailyNews Take: According to Gurman, Apple is looking at a release date as early as iOS 19.4 which is scheduled for spring or summer of 2026.

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