Apple HealthKit pulled from iOS 8 with last-minute bug discovery
iPhone 6 developer Apple has pulled its long-awaited fitness-tracking app HealthKit from its latest iOS 8 operating system a day before the smartphones were due to be launched worldwide.
Apple's HealthKit app in action
The Californian electronics giant cited the last-minute discovery of a bug in the app as the reason for its removal from the new operating system, which will be integrated with the new iPhone 6, and subsequent devices.
Apple, which earlier this month banned app developers from selling health-related user data, designed the HealthKit to track and analyse user fitness, also allowing them to share their performance with friends via social networks.
Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller told CNET: “We discovered a bug that prevents us from making HealthKit apps available on iOS 8 today.
“We're working quickly to have the bug fixed in a software update and have HealthKit apps available by the end of the month.”
Brian Mueller, developer of weight-loss app Carrot Fit, told Cult of Mac that Apple informed him it had removed the app but would not specify why.
Mueller concluded: "They didn’t have any ETA on when the fix will go live."
The smartphone will be released worldwide on Friday 19 September - except in China where the iPhone 6's launch was delayed by Apple under mysterious circumstances,
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