Screw it, I made an app this afternoon.

It solves a very specific problem I have. I want to weigh myself and record the weight in Apple Health. That’s it, it literally needs nothing else. Some apps are fine for this, but I figured how hard could it be?

Turns out, it’s like 100 lines of code to do this 😅

Add some styling and error handling and I might just release this lil’ guy.

#BuildInPublic or whatever 🤗

@matt I have a “Log My Weight” shortcut for exactly this purpose.

@jarrod @matt
@mako oh, absolutely - wasn’t meaning to belittle the project but can see how it came across that way. 😊

@donkey @matt Really cool to have a project and hopefully learn.

Personally I find Siri to be super good at this task. Starting in iOS 17.2 Siri could read and write health data and it works great for logging weight straight from the Lock Screen.

@kaplag @matt This is interesting that it came in 17. I’d noticed I’d gained the ability to “log my 8am medications as taken” when trying out the iOS 18 betas but it went away when 18.2 came out. That’s when I reloaded it was actually that I’d switched back to English NZ as my region when 18.2 hit. Siri can’t do this health coolness when in English NZ! 🤷🏽‍♂️… (1/2)

I’m back set to English US again now and just putting up with the incorrectly formatted short dates in places that don’t check beyond the region.. (2/2)

@matt My shortcut for this:

@gruber I’ll admit that’s easier…🤣

@mako @jarrod @donkey You guys nailed it, I have the coding bug now.

@kaplag @donkey huh, that’s really cool, I had no idea!

@matt I almost didn’t post it because I didn’t want to imply you shouldn’t have made the app. Sometimes a “Hello world” scope app is fun to build!

@gruber For sure, you gotta start somewhere. There’s few things quite as satisfying as writing code that actually does what you want, I get why developers dig it.

@gruber @matt I also made a shortcut for this at one point but then Apple added the ability for you to do this via Siri and now I just use that.

@dmoren @gruber @matt that’s news to me. I still use the shortcut I had created for logging weight. I will try the Siri way today!

@matt I use shortcuts for this kind of data entry. I used to use specialized apps for tracking my blood glucose but my shortcut works great, integrates with Health, I can add features if I need to, and it’s free. Nothing like keeping things simple.

@dmoren @gruber @matt
I created a shortcut to log my weight, blood sugar and BP in succession. Age 50+ so I’m recording all three every Saturday morning.

@sajal24x7 @dmoren @gruber @matt There's a formula for body fat ratio that derives from your waist to height ratio (not weight) and is far more accurate than BMI. You can add both figures to Apple Health, but it won't do the calculation. I should just make a shortcut. Note that the formula is slightly different for men and women.

Relative Fat Mass:
64 - (20 x waist / height) : Men
76 - (20 x waist / height) : Women

Waist measured at belly button (umbilical scar).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6054651/

@gruber I’ve got one of those too! Really handy. 😊 Unfortunately, mine doesn’t automatically focus the input, which is annoying. Does yours? 🤔

@gruber @matt my version has body fat percentage too, since my own scale logs it directly to Apple health but the one in my parents only displays it:

@amxmln It does for me, running it from a Shortcuts Home Screen widget.

@gruber might be that first step you’ve set up there. I have to try that, I only had the second one. 😊 Good to know it works for you though. 👍

@matt Love it! I'd use it.

@dmoren @gruber @matt I have a scale that does this automatically (Withings)

@gruber @matt Chiming in here just for fun. I also use a Shortcut that I downloaded from somewhere years ago (could be the one from the gallery 🤷🏼‍♂️) and I think I added the option to open the Health app because sometimes I want to compare recent samples. I wish it could take me directly to the weight section of Health, though.