Making sense of your monthly health report, one section at a time

Your monthly report summarises what your iPhone, your Apple Watch, and your own entries recorded in one month. This guide goes through the pages of the report and shows what to look for while reading. You create the report in Sam, an iPhone app that reads your Apple Health data.

How you get your report

You create the report yourself, once a month for the previous month. Sam needs Apple Health access, notifications turned on, an answer about chronic conditions, and your date of birth. You also need to have logged sick and symptom days on at least 15 of the last 30 days; the first report is exempt. You can take the finished report along as a PDF.

Stress

The stress page shows the average stress level of your month and the number of high-stress days. What to look for:

• The trend over the month: Does the line go up, stay flat, or fall? A trend says more than a single day.
• Peaks: Single high-stress days often have recognisable causes, such as a packed schedule, little sleep, or an argument. Several peaks in a row are a pattern you can look at more closely.
• Your own comparison: What is meaningful is the comparison with your own earlier months, not with other people.

Sleep

The sleep page shows your average sleep score and how regular your sleep was. The value lies not in single nights but in the pattern:

• Regularity: How much do bedtime and wake time vary from night to night? If your bedtime swings by more than an hour on some days, you see it here.
• Weekends: Does your sleep shift clearly later on Fridays and Saturdays?
• Link to stress: Put the sleep page next to the stress page. If a poor sleep month coincides with a stressful month, you have a starting point for thinking it over or talking to your doctor.

You still see HRV and resting heart rate in Apple Health. You can look at them next to the report pages if the connection interests you.

Sickness and wellbeing

This page counts the days you felt ill and logged it. It shows only what you entered: without entries there is no statement about the month. If you had several sick days in a month, you can put them next to sleep and stress and ask what was different during that time.

Activity

The activity page shows how evenly you moved, your average steps per day, and your active calories. Look at whether your movement was spread across the week or concentrated on the weekend. A month with clearly less movement than usual is a reason to ask yourself why: a recovery phase, an injury, a busy period at work?

Lifestyle and symptoms

This page lists what you logged about symptoms and alcohol: symptom days, days without symptoms, drinking days, and alcohol-free days. When several symptom days fall directly after one another, they often belong to one episode. For a doctor appointment this page is especially useful because it shows how symptoms were spread across the month.

Lab results and programs

The lab page lists the results you added to your health records this month. The programs page shows the check-in results and goal progress of the programs you actively use. Both pages appear with whatever you have stored in Sam.

Reading the report as a whole

What is informative is rarely a single number but the relationship between the pages: what moved together, what went apart? Three questions help:

• Did everything move in the same direction? Less sleep, more stress, less movement, and more sick days in one month are a reason to talk to your GP or occupational physician. Take the report along.
• Do pages diverge? Regular sleep alongside many stress days shows you that the two do not automatically go together.
• Did something change on purpose? A new sleep routine or a new movement habit often shows up first on the matching page.

If something is on your mind

The monthly report is a structured, time-stamped record of your own entries and Apple Health data, not an assessment. If a trend is on your mind, discuss it with your GP, an occupational physician, a psychologist, or a sleep specialist. For acute symptoms call your local emergency number (112 in the EU, 999 in the UK, 911 in the US). Sam is a wellness app, not a medical device.

Sources

• Description of the report pages based on the monthly report in the Sam app, version 1.7 (as of October 2026).