iOS 13 Heart Rate graph in Health App is degraded

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iOS 13 Heart Rate graph in Health App is degraded

Apple’s Health app for iPhone in iOS 13 changed the graphing of heart rate data collected from Apple Watch. The y-axis (heart rate BPM) is rescaled to 50 bpm intervals; it had been 20 bpm. This change makes the graph much less useful.

The heart rate graph also is missing the date that had been below the graph and on the left. This makes saving a screen capture on the iPhone for a note harder since I have to enter the date associated with the graph.

I think the graphs should go back to the style used in iOS 12. There are no benefits to the changes made in iOS 13.

I use a Apple Watch 4 and iPhone XS, with iOS 13.1.2 and WatchOS 6.

Anyone else agree with me? Apple Support says the changes are as-designed.

iPhone XS

Posted on Oct 1, 2019 11:53 AM

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Oct 1, 2019 12:15 PM in response to Larry Nolan

You can let Apple know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Meanwhile, there are lots of third party apps that will give you graphs of Health data. I'd suggest poking about the App Store to see if you can find something that suits you better. Also, doing an internet search for something like "iphone heart rate graph app" would probably turn up some suggestions to get you started.

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Oct 7, 2019 7:02 PM in response to Larry Nolan

Heart rate graph Y-axis limits are set to +400 bpm down to a low of -200 bpm on mine. This is ridiculously large. How do you have a heart rate less than 0? And 400 max? Wild animals don’t run that high. Why aren’t the chart limits more rational? 40 to 250 should suffice, shouldn’t it?

iPhone SE/iOS13.1.2/Series 3 watch/watchOS 6.0.1/Health app is latest version.

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iOS 13 Heart Rate graph in Health App is degraded

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