Gurman: Apple to Combine its Healthcare and AI Dreams

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported today that Apple will update its Health app with an AI agent-powered health coach that’s code-named Project Mulberry.

Project Mulberry was previously codenamed Project Quartz, and Gurman says it’s taken “many twists and turns” while “roping in” other parts of Apple, most notably (and perhaps most recently) Apple Intelligence. It’s nearing completion, however, and could ship as soon as one year from now as part of iOS 19.4.

As a new version of the Apple Health app, Project Mulberry will collect data from multiple Apple devices–iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods–plus third-party devices and the AI coach will use that to make personalized recommendations about ways you can improve your health. Apple is training this AI using “data from physicians that it has on staff,” Gurman says, and it will bring in more outside doctors and other experts to record videos about specific health topics that will be used in the app.

Other features include food tracking, camera-based workout assessments. And it’s possible–I’d say likely–that this will also result in a subscription serviced called Health+, Gurman says.

In related news, Gurman says Apple is now testing an M5-based iPad Pro internally and plans to ship it later this year, with M5-based MacBook Pro and Air models to follow. There are also M6 versions of its in-house modem chips, which will land in 2027. But closer to now, you can expect iOS 18.4 and its other associated software releases this coming week.