Lifelong, the family health app for iPhone — Look after your family

Lifelong is a family health app. It keeps one family’s health in one place — medications, symptoms, appointments, records, lab results, and the daily signals from the watches and phones you already use — and lets you share exactly the parts you choose with the people you choose. It reads the documents you upload, builds them into a timeline, and answers questions about them.

Apple Health collects one person’s health and fitness data on their own iPhone. Lifelong is built around a family: each person has their own space for medications, conditions, symptoms, appointments and records, and chooses what the rest of the family can see. The two work together — with your permission, Lifelong reads sleep, activity and heart rate from Apple Health. What Lifelong adds is the paperwork Apple Health doesn’t hold, such as discharge summaries, lab reports and what was said at an appointment, and Alo, an assistant that answers questions using what your family has chosen to keep there.

Only what you have chosen to share with them. When you join a family, the app asks you to choose — per category — what your family can see:

• Daily signals: sleep, activity, heart
• Health records and documents
• Medications, conditions, symptoms and appointments
• Journal entries and notes

Nothing of yours is visible to anyone until you have made that choice and confirmed it. We recommend sharing everything, because a family that can see the whole picture is the point of the product — but it is a recommendation, not a default that happens to you. You can narrow, widen or revoke at any time, per category and per person, and revocation takes effect immediately.

Alo is Lifelong’s assistant. It can read your health overview, recent records, conditions, medications, journal entries, alerts and plans; look things up on the web; remember context about you between conversations; and draft entries for your health record. You can talk to it in the app or from Messages. There is more on the Alo page.

No. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to insurers, not to anyone. We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We have never done either.

We also do not disclose your information to insurers, employers, credit agencies, data brokers or advertising platforms. Full stop. And if any of that ever stops being true, we will tell you before it changes, not after.

Lifelong is on iPhone today and needs iOS 17 or later. An Android version is coming soon, and we plan to bring Lifelong to iPad and the web as well.