Blocks submissionGoogle Play

A health-related app files the Health apps declaration and carries the not-a-medical-device disclaimer

The question The app has health-related features or reads health data. Is the Health apps declaration filed in Play Console? Does the description carry the disclaimer that it is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition, and remind users to consult a professional? Are any hardware or sensor requirements disclosed? Is it a regulated medical device, and declared as such?

A person or a model answers it from the app's texts and screens; the answer is kept only while the facts it saw are unchanged.

Applies when capability:health; signal:healthkit; listing:\b(health|medical|fitness|wellbeing|well-being|first aid|symptom|medication|blood|heart rate|sleep|diet|calorie|pregnan)

Checked from on a test track, submitted and in review, published

The rule, in our words

• Health Content and Services: An app with health-related features, or one that reads health data for other purposes, must file the Health apps declaration in Play Console; post a privacy policy link in Play Console and inside the app, at a public, non-geofenced, non-editable, non-PDF URL, that comprehensively covers personal and sensitive data handling; give prominent disclosure and get consent for runtime-permission data; should not request permissions its core function does not need and must remove unused ones; disclose any external hardware or device-sensor requirements in the description; declare itself as a regulated medical device with proof on request, or otherwise put a disclaimer in the app description that it is "not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition" and remind users to consult a healthcare professional; and carry no misleading health claims, no unapproved substances, no prescription-drug sales without prescription; regulated clinical services should not be billed through Play billing.

Okkok never stores the stores' text. Each item above is our paraphrase, and the link is the page it rests on, verified unchanged by fingerprint on every run.

The other store

• Google requires a Play Console health declaration and a specific disclaimer sentence in the description; Apple bans the named sensor-only measurements outright and restricts dosage calculators to manufacturers, hospitals, universities, insurers, pharmacies or FDA-type approval. partial
• Google specifies the URL must be non-geofenced, non-editable and non-PDF; Apple sets no URL format constraints. same
• Apple bans advertising or marketing use of health data and prescribes research consent contents plus independent ethics review; Google requires a console declaration and a disclaimer but does not itself bar advertising use (its User Data policy limits use to expected functionality). partial

Check your app

pip install git+https://github.com/petresandu-cloud/okkok
okkok audit path/to/app

The report names this rule as google.health-apps-declaration and says what to do, who does it, where, and how it knows.