Connecting a Bluetooth Monitor and Apple Health

Which Monitors Work

Two kinds of monitor can talk to BPal. The first is any cuff implementing the standard Bluetooth Blood Pressure Profile, which is a published specification that most Bluetooth-capable monitors follow. The second is a set of Omron models that use their own protocol, including the HEM-7188T1 (sold as X2+ Connect in some markets), the HEM-7155T-MW3 and the HEM-7380T1, along with others in the same family.

Some cuffs store readings for more than one person in separate user slots. BPal asks which slot to import from, so a shared device does not put someone else’s readings into your log.

If your monitor has no Bluetooth at all, nothing is lost — manual entry with the keypad is the primary way into the app and always has been. Importing is a convenience, not a requirement.

Pairing and Importing

Pairing happens in Settings, under devices. Put the cuff into pairing mode as its own manual describes, and BPal scans for it. There is a short illustrated walkthrough in the app if the cuff is not appearing.

Once paired, importing pulls whatever the device has stored since the last time. Readings that duplicate ones you already logged are filtered out, so importing after you have already typed something in does not leave you with the same measurement twice.

The free plan includes one import so you can see how it works with your own cuff. Continued importing is part of Premium. Manual entry stays unlimited on both plans.

An imported reading behaves like any other: you can open it in History and add the context, tags and notes the cuff had no way to know about.

Apple Health as a Second Route

Some monitors write to Apple Health through their own app rather than talking to third-party apps directly. If yours does, connecting Apple Health is the simpler path.

With your permission, BPal reads blood pressure, heart rate and weight from Health, and writes blood pressure and heart rate back to it, so readings you enter here are available to whatever else you use. Weight is read only — BPal never writes weight to Health. The same duplicate filtering applies, so a reading that arrived both over Bluetooth and through Health is stored once.

The free plan includes one Health import; ongoing sync is part of Premium. You control the permissions in iOS Settings and can revoke any of them at any time, and BPal keeps working with manual entry if you do.

However readings get in, what happens next is the same: they join your charts and your reports. This guide is general information, not medical advice; follow your monitor’s own instructions for measuring, and your doctor for what the readings mean.