# HealthKit

Source: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/healthkit
Skill: hig-technologies
Snapshot: 2025-02-02

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# HealthKit

## Privacy protection

**Provide a coherent privacy policy.**

**Request access to health data only when you need it.**

**Clarify your app’s intent by adding descriptive messages to the standard permission screen.**

**Manage health data sharing solely through the system’s privacy settings.**

## Activity rings

**Use Activity rings for Move, Exercise, and Stand information only.**

**Use Activity rings to show progress for a single person.**

**Don’t use Activity rings for ornamentation.**

**Don’t use Activity rings for branding.**

**Maintain Activity ring and background colors.**

**Maintain Activity ring margins.**

**Differentiate other ring-like elements from Activity rings.**

**Provide app-specific information only in Activity notifications.**

## Apple Health icon

**Use only the Apple-provided icon.**

**Display the name _Apple Health_ close to the Apple Health icon.**

**Display the Apple Health icon consistently with other health-related app icons.**

**Don’t use the Apple Health icon as a button.**

**Don’t alter the appearance of the Apple Health icon.**

**Maintain a minimum clear space around the Apple Health icon of 1/10 of its height.**

**Don’t use the Apple Health icon within text or as a replacement for the terms _Health_ , _Apple Health_ , or _HealthKit_.**

**Don’t display Health app images or screenshots.**

## Editorial guidelines

**Refer to the Health app as _Apple Health_ or _the Apple Health app_.**

**Don’t use the term _HealthKit_.**

**Use correct capitalization when using the term _Apple Health_.**

**Use the system-provided translation of _Health_ to avoid confusing people.**

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