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I have turned off all health app access that the UI allows in IOS 15.2. However, the health is still reading my contacts. Why? How do I stop this? I don’t use or want Apple health.
Instead of blindly defending Apple’s (lack of) privacy policies, how about if I offer a truly helpful response? Sound good? OK!
Your Health app stores personal information you have entered into your phone. It allows you to have access to your own health information all in one location, but also to share it with family, doctors, medical studies in which you choose to participate, AND (here’s the smoking gun) it will display some basic medical information on your locked screen for emergency responders to use and it will automatically call your emergency contacts!
The health app is looking through your contacts for your current flagged “Emergency Contacts”.
Open the Health app and review your profile (click on your photo in the app) and “Access to *Medical ID” to update or delete functions that require access to your contacts.
Disable the function that will automatically call your emergency contacts (if you use Emergency SOS to call for help, your phone notifies these contacts.)
Disable the function that will display your *Medical ID on your Lock Screen (so emergency responders can see it and also notify your emergency contacts).
Remove any medical information and emergency contacts from your *Medical ID. This would be information you previously entered.
And voila! You have now stopped the Health App from using any of your contact or personal information. Once you realize WHY the app is pinging your contacts, it’s easy to decide whether to keep it or not.
I’ve dealt with a friend who had a stroke and we couldn’t access his phone to contact family because he only used facial recognition (life support equipment gets in the way of that). After that experience, I chose to keep my own name, emergency contact numbers, blood type, and allergies listed in the Health app so anyone can pull it up on the locked screen. It’s your choice.
Hey_Hey85 wrote:
Like what? You say there’s a lot more not to trust and what’s that?
For starters, the fact that your carrier tracks you, tracks the websites you visit, tracks where you go.
Gee, that’s helpful
What is the problem with trying to protect my privacy and if the health app which I do not want or use accesses my contacts that is a problem!
Mean
It means what it says.
I think I need one of those.
Me too!
Yes, same reason I ended up here --wth? There's no need for Health to be checking my contacts when I purposely turned it off for privacy reasons to begin with.
Where is the privacy issue if one Apple app on your phone accesses information from another Apple app? The information is not leaving your phone. It is not becoming less secure.
LD150 wrote:
It's like covering over your mirror in case you see yourself. No privacy risk.
Perfect analogy!
You fail to comprehend the gravity of this issue
😂 😂😂
Jbiw8590 wrote:
You fail to comprehend the gravity of this issue
No, you fail to comprehend the NON-gravity of this issue. It isn’t an issue, period. Read and understand what I posted.
Lawrence Finch wrote:
Read and understand what I posted.
You have very high expectations.
What about the privacy rights of the contacts?
Stop Apple Health Accessing My Contacts!
