Setting up Push
Push takes a minute to set up. A short introduction explains the score, asks for access to Apple Health, and reminds you to turn on Sleep Focus. After that, the only thing left to do is wear your watch to bed.
The introduction
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Welcome | Free, all of it: no subscription, no ads, nothing locked. Worked out on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded. |
| One Number | A Recovery Score from 0 to 100, in four bands. |
| Six Signals | What Push reads overnight, compared with your own baseline. |
| It Never Leaves | No account, no server, nothing to opt out of. |
| Reading From Health | Asks for Apple Health access. Push reads Health and never writes back. |
| Turn On Sleep Focus | Wrist temperature is only recorded while Sleep Focus is on. |
Connecting Apple Health
When you tap through to Health, iOS shows its own permission sheet listing everything Push asks to read. Turn them all on for the full app. Anything you leave off simply stays empty in Push. A missing signal is left out of the score, never counted as zero.
If you tapped Don't Allow, the rest of the app still opens. You can change it later in the Health app under Sharing, Apps, Push, or in iPhone Settings, Privacy & Security, Health, Push. See Privacy and your data for exactly what is read.
Turn on Sleep Focus
Your Apple Watch only records wrist temperature while Sleep Focus is on. Push reads it from the first night, charts it, and explains it, but it is not part of the score. Turning Sleep Focus on is still worth it: without it, that signal stays empty.
Finding your way around
| Where | What it is |
|---|---|
| Today | Your Recovery Score on an open arc, its band, and cards for Sleep, Strain, Stress, Biological Age and Vitals. Every card opens a detail view. |
| Vitals | Every other metric Push reads from Health, grouped by category. See The Vitals tab. |
| You | The Tip Jar, your watch, How It Works, appearance, reminders, goals and more. See The You tab. |
| Calendar button | Top right of Today. Opens your score history as a month calendar. See History and the calendar. |
| Coach button | The round gradient button in the top right of every screen. See Coach. |
Questions
Do I need an account?
No. Push has no sign-up, no login and no server. It reads Apple Health on your iPhone.
Can I see a score today?
Your own score needs seven nights. To see how everything works right away, turn on sample data.
Push is free on the App Store, for iPhone and Apple Watch.
Push is a general wellness feature, not a substitute for professional medical judgment, does not account for existing conditions or medications.