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Optimise your health

Track everything about your well-being with Gyroscope

IT WILL TAKE

15-30 minutes

YOU WILL LEARN

How to feed health

data into one app and

get helpful insights

YOU’LL NEED

iPhone running

iOS 10 or later,

Apple Watch

Hopefully, you’ve been following

(and benefitting from) our

monthly ‘Improve Yourself’

tutorials. We’ve looked at a

number of ways in which you can harness

Apple technology to track various aspects

of your life, and then use that data to optimise

your health and overall wellbeing.

In this concluding piece in the series, we

introduce you to Gyroscope, a unique wellness

tracking app that corrals data points from a

range of sources into a unified dashboard

and makes it easier to interpret facts and

figures by giving you the benefit of context.

Indeed, Gyroscope is unlike other apps,

since it delivers trends and correlations based

on data you already provide to other apps and

services. All you need to do is link them to

Gyroscope to gain insights into a host of

lifestyle factors including sleep, activity, mood,

productivity level, activity, fitness, meditation,

food intake, weight, blood sugar, and more, all

while maintaining full control over who can

see your data. Tim Hardwick

HOW TO Set up your Gyroscope account >

1

Install Gyroscope

Gyroscope (gyroscope.pe) is a free

download for iPhone from the App Store.

Once it’s installed, open the app. Select

your main lifestyle goal from Get

stronger, Lose bodyfat, Live longer or

Think clearer, then enter your gender.

2

Select devices

Next, select which devices you use

from the list supported (if you don’t use

any, that’s okay – you can just use your

iPhone) and then tap through the

screens to enable steps, sleep, mood,

location and fitness tracking.

3

Create account

If you have a Facebook account,

you can use it to log in to Gyroscope.

Otherwise, you can create an account

with new credentials. Lastly, give the

app access to your Apple Health data

and allow it to sync.

APPLE SKILLS iOS/Watch software