AI firm Perplexity has launched its new health feature with Apple Health integration included. Save yourself trouble and aggravation later, and skip it.

The Perplexity Health feature was announced via a blog post that detailed what users can expect. That includes the many ways users are able to feed data into its AI model, including using their Apple Health data.

Alongside Apple Health, Perplexity's "suite of connectors" can ingest data from big-name players in the health tech space, including Fitbit, Ultrahuman, and Withings. Oura, Function, and others are also present.

Perplexity also points out that it supports connectors for electronic health records from more than 1.7 million care providers. The company expects to add more connectors soon.

Once it has your health data, Perplexity Health will track metrics and trends across biomarkers and your activity data. That information will then be fed into a personalized dashboard.

This being an AI company, users can also ask questions based on the data Perpelxity Health has access to. "A question about resting heart rate, for example, can factor in your recent activity, your cardiac history, and your latest bloodwork," the blog post explains.

Another terrible AI trend

Perplexity isn't the first to ask people to feed it their health data. ChatGPT added support for Apple Health in January 2025.

But whether Perplexity Health or ChatGPT is your health chatbot of choice, we very much recommend against giving it access to your health data.

Perplexity says that health data is encrypted in transit as well as at rest, "with strict access controls, and tools to manage or delete information at any time." But you don't have to look too far to see horror stories of AI models doing things they shouldn't have been able to do — and once you've given a model access to your health data, all bets are off.

Privacy and data security aside, it remains to be seen how useful Perplexity Health will actually be. A Washington Post report found that ChatGPT was liable to report things that weren't backed up by the data it was given. And if it can't do that, why give it the data in the first place?

Again, we suggest that you don't. And the same goes for Perplexity Health, too.