The AI health service Apple was rumored to be building for iOS 27 didn't ship — what arrived is a set of incremental updates that broaden who the Health app serves, not how deeply it serves them.
Apple overhauled the Health app's Browse section with a card-style layout and consolidated its navigation into a single bottom bar. More substantially, it expanded Cycle Tracking to flag patterns associated with perimenopause for users 40 and older, drawing on long-term cycle history to surface an alert when the hormonal transition may be beginning — a decade or more before menopause itself. GymKit, previously an Apple Watch feature, now works directly on iPhone, letting gym users sync calories, speed, incline, and pace from compatible equipment without a wrist device. A new Visual Intelligence feature scans food with the camera and returns a rough nutritional ranking, though it skips exact calorie counts and the data doesn't write back to the Health app.
The perimenopause feature fills a real gap: cycle-tracking apps have historically centered fertility and pregnancy, leaving users navigating the perimenopausal transition with little structured guidance. The GymKit expansion quietly removes the Apple Watch from the data loop for gym users who never wanted one.
Apple says the AI health service could resurface in a future release. For now you get a camera that can tell you your lunch is "heavily processed."