How to track your mood on Apple Watch and why it’s useful

How to track your mood on Apple Watch and why it’s useful

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Apple Watch with watchOS 10 has with a series of brand-new health and wellness functions with one in specific targeted at supporting psychological health. Follow along for how to track state of mind on Apple Watch in the current Mindfulness app and the advantages of doing so.


Update 5/1/24: It’s Mental Health Awareness Month– in addition to this important function, a brand-new Wellbeing classification for Apple Podcasts simply got here. You can discover it in the Podcasts app under Browse > > Swipe over 4 on the included classifications at the top.


Here’s how Apple explains the “State of Mind” function on Apple Watch and why it’s useful:

“Mental health is as essential as physical health, and research study reveals that reviewing mindset can assist develop psychological awareness and strength. With the Mindfulness app in watchOS 10, users can inconspicuously and easily log their temporary feelings and everyday state of minds. Users can turn the Digital Crown to scroll through appealing, multidimensional shapes to select how they are feeling, choose what is having the greatest effect on them, and explain their sensations.”

In addition to tracking state of mind with Apple Watch, the function is readily available on iPhone in the Health app with iOS 17 (plus there’s a brand-new standalone Journal app as another method to support psychological health).

  1. On Apple Watch running watchOS 10, open the Mindfulness app
  2. Select the brand-new Mindset choice
  3. After tapping Get going the very first time you open it, log how you’re feeling in the minute or log how you’ve “felt total” for the day
  4. You’ll see neutral initially, swipe or utilize the Digital Crown to pick in between the 7 alternatives
    • Options consist of: extremely undesirable, undesirable, somewhat undesirable, neutral, somewhat enjoyable, enjoyable, really enjoyable
  5. Tap the checkmark in the leading right corner to choose a mindset
  6. Now you can additionally include what feeling(s) you’re feeling
  7. If you ‘d like you can log “what’s having the greatest effect on you”

If you ‘d like to get in the practice of logging your state of mind on Apple Watch routinely, you can switch on tips to track it two times a day.

To see and track state of mind on iPhone with iOS 17, head to the Health app > > Browse tab > > Mental Wellbeing > > State of Mind > > Log.

Here’s how it aims to track state of mind on Apple Watch with watchOS 10:

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Here’s a take a look at a few of the feelings you can utilize to more explain how you’re feeling(you can select more than one):

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You can choose to tape-record what’s having the greatest effect on you (once again you can select numerous elements):

To see your previous state of mind logs, head to the Health app on iPhone > > Browse tab > > Mental Wellbeing. And you can log brand-new state of mind entries from your iPhone.

In the exact same area in the Health app, you can likewise discover a Mental Health Questionnaire.

What do you consider this Mindfulness function? Share your ideas in the remarks!

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