HealthKit needs a data category for "squares of toilet paper used"

Originator:simsimbean
Number:rdar://32996705 Date Originated:June 26 2017, 8:28 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:iOS + SDK/Health Kit Product Version:10.3.2/14F89
Classification: Reproducible:yes
 
Area:
HealthKit

Summary:
My roommate uses a lot of toilet paper.  Like, a LOT.  Given that high toilet paper use could possibly be correlated with a number of health issues, they need a way to track their toilet paper use.  It seems like Apple Health and HealthKit would be an ideal candidate for helping them to track this data point throughout the week.  It could leverage the built-in Apple Health graphs to give them a visual indicator of how much toilet paper they use, when they will need to buy more, and correlate it to other data that might also see spikes in usage when their toilet paper use spikes.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open Apple Health.
2.  Search through the available categories of data.

Expected Results:
I expect their to be a data category of "squares of toilet paper used"

Observed Results:
There is no data category for "squares of toilet paper used"

Version:
10.3.2/14F89
Also occurs in beta versions of iOS 11

Notes:
If you want me to file real bugs on Apple Bug Reporter, then you'll fix this issue to indicate that someone actually heard what I requested.

Configuration:
Occurs on all types of iPhones and versions of iOS.  Weirdly, my roommate uses less toilet paper when they have a physically larger iPhone: maybe they use their phone for wiping?

Comments

I mean

This is kind of ridiculous. There's been a ton of health related fixes that I've seen from bug submission to release. Whining about one little pet peeve feature may not get a ton of attention, and neither will a dumb waste of time bug report.

By kylesgray at June 28, 2017, 11:58 p.m. (reply...)

More info as requested by an Apple engineer: unfortunately our toilet paper rolls are not fancy, and they are not Bluetooth- or NFC-enabled, nor do they have accelerometers. My roommate needs a way to manually enter data points into Apple Health/HealthKit.

By simsimbean at June 27, 2017, 5:08 a.m. (reply...)

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