Perplexity Health Now Connects to Apple Health, Fitbit, and Your Medical Data

Perplexity Health connecting to Apple Health and Fitbit data

Your AI Search Engine Now Reads Your Health Data

Perplexity has launched Perplexity Health, a new feature that integrates directly with Apple Health, Fitbit, and other health data providers. The AI search engine can now access your personal health metrics to provide more contextual and personalized health-related answers.

How It Works

When enabled, Perplexity Health can pull data from your connected health devices including:

  • Apple Health — steps, heart rate, sleep data, activity rings
  • Fitbit — exercise logs, sleep tracking, heart rate
  • Other medical providers — lab results, medical records (where available)

Users can ask Perplexity health-related questions and get answers that take their personal health data into account, rather than just generic medical information.

Privacy Concerns

The integration raises obvious questions about data privacy. Perplexity says health data is processed securely and not used for training, but the idea of an AI search engine having access to your medical records is bound to make privacy advocates nervous.

The Bottom Line

An AI search engine that reads your heart rate, sleep patterns, and potentially medical records is either the future of personalized health information or a privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Probably both. The convenience is undeniable — imagine asking "why am I tired?" and getting an answer based on your actual sleep data — but the question of who else might eventually access that data remains uncomfortable.