Apple SensorKit
- Phone, app and device usage
- Calls and messages usage, without content
- Keyboard and speech metrics, without what was typed or said
- Visits to frequently visited places, motion, ambient light and pressure
Smartphone sensing: the phone sees what wearables miss.
Phones capture how participants move, where they spend time, how they use their phone and the world around them. Data is collected passively, with consent and no extra effort, and joins the same timeline as wearables, questionnaires and EMAs. Try it: choose streams and allow sensing.
Sensing streamsExample · synthetic data
FrameworkCustom study appOpt-in
Streams this study collects
Usage is recorded as counts and durations. Message content, typed text and speech are never collected.
Choose streams, then allow sensing on the phone.
Participant App
Sleep & Mood StudySetup
HomeTasksMe
What phones can collect
Context from daily life, without extra effort.
Sensors and Health Connect
- Motion and activity recognition, such as walking or in a vehicle
- Location and mobility patterns
- Screen time and app usage
- Ambient light, proximity, and Health Connect steps and sleep
With SensorKit
- Heart rate
- Wrist temperature
- PPG and ECG
- Collected alongside the iPhone streams
How it works
From approval to analysis-ready data.
A custom study app, built for you
- Smartphone sensing runs in a custom study app we build as part of our service
- The standard Participant App does not include sensing
- We help you prepare and submit the Apple SensorKit approval request
- Choose streams per study and per group
Opt-in, recorded in the app
- Participants see each stream before they agree
- Permissions are requested on the phone, stream by stream
- Participants can stop sensing at any time
- Usage is stored as counts and durations, never content
One timeline per participant
- Sensing joins wearable data, questionnaires and EMAs
- Feed participant context and adaptive interventions
- Monitor gaps with reminders and alerts
- Export de-identified data for analysis
Works with