How to disable iOS's fertility tracking features? (Step-By-Step Guide)
November 12, 2022 By Raulf Hernes
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The best features you'll need in your daily life are all included in Apple's newest lineup of products.
These gadgets not only help you stay in touch with the people you love, but they also support your efforts to maintain a healthy weight. A blood oxygen level test, an ECG app, heart rate notifications, and other functions are also available on the most recent Apple Watch.
Apple's Features for Fertility Tracking
Apple is brimming with security and wellness features. Regarding their function and usage, several of them are revolutionary. One of these is temperature sensing, a ground-breaking feature that offers profound insights into the health of women.
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With the release of iOS 13 and watchOS 6, Apple added the Cycle Tracking feature, which was subsequently enhanced with subsequent operating system upgrades. Women who use this feature to track their menstrual cycles can better understand their general health and develop a stronger connection to their bodies.
Despite the advantages of tracking menstrual cycles, Apple cautions users not to use it as a method of birth control or to identify certain medical concerns with the use of the feature's data.
What It Does
Based on temperature information, Apple calculates ovulation after the fact. Devices like the Apple Watch Series 8 or Apple Watch Ultra can use wrist temperature data to estimate the most likely day of ovulation and enhance period predictions after ovulation has already taken place. To use these functions, you obviously need to have these devices.
Estimates of ovulation are only guesses and do not guarantee that ovulation has occurred. They function very similarly to apps that track ovulation and act as logs.
Additionally, some customers might be hesitant to share such data with their Apple devices, and that is totally acceptable because the capability can be turned off.
How To Turn Off iOS Fertility Tracking Features
If you don't require such functions or don't feel secure logging your data into those Apple features, you may disable them with the help of these methods.
How to turn off the wrist temperature feature is as follows:
- Go to the Cycle Tracking tab in the Health app on your iPhone.
- To the right of the Cycle Log heading, tap Options.
- Use Wrist Temperature is a checkbox that can be unchecked by scrolling down under Watch Data.
- You can disable the Use Heart Rate toggle if you don't want to submit any biometric information.
- By heading to Settings > Cycle Tracking > Use Wrist Temperature / Use Heart Rate on your Watch, you may accomplish the same task.
Follow these steps to stop fertility tracking:
- Cycle Tracking > Options can be found after opening the Health app.
- Click the Fertility Window Estimates toggle after scrolling down to Fertility Tracking.
How to turn Cycle Deviation Detection off:
- Cycle Tracking > Options can be found after opening the Health app.
- Under Period Tracking, select Cycle Deviation Detection.
- For irregular periods, infrequent periods, lengthy periods, and persistent spotting, you should notice four toggles. Turn off each of these.
Use this link to get in touch with Apple help if you need assistance completing these procedures.