HealthKit is a framework that allows developers to interact with a user's health data. This data includes information like a user's weight, BMI, blood type, biological sex, skin type, date of birth, whether they use a wheelchair, and much more. In addition to these metrics, HealthKit also provides access to activity data, such as workouts or the amount of steps the user has walked on a given day.
HealthKit is available on the iPhone and Apple Watch only. The iPad does not have support for HealthKit, so you must take special precautions to determine whether HealthKit is available, by calling isHealthDataAvailable() on the HKHealthStore class.
Because health data is considered private and thus very sensitive, apps that want access to health data have to specify their reasons for wanting to read and/or write data to HealthKit in the Info.plist, under...
