Developers who want to create health-related applications for Apple should be vigilant, because the American company has Updated HealthKit usage policy. Right now the issues related to privacy, data use and the use of the application icon have changed.
New terms of use in Apple HealthKit that developers must adhere to.
We already know that when developers create an application and upload it to the App Store, the American company has a series of requirements, in some cases, very strict, so that it is not eliminated from the market. It happens with all applications, but especially with those intended to control the health of users.
Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has changed the terms HealthKit for developers updating them and asking developers to update if they want their applications to remain on the market.
The new guidelines can be found in full on the website that Apple has for these purposes. But summarizing and highlighting the most important changes, we find the following news:
Now developers must provide a consistent privacy policy; request access to maintenance data, only when necessary; to proportionate description messages by requesting permission to access maintenance data.
As well will be able to use the HealthKit icon to promote their applications (and by the way they promote Apple) and the policy of how and when the icon should be used is also specified by the company. For example, if you want to use the name of Apple Health should be near the icon and it cannot be used as a button.
Changes are coming to third-party health apps, we'll see in the short term, how affects to third companies these changes.
