Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Friday, February 6th, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by Stuff, the clean and powerful to-do list application.

Leading off today, Bloomberg reports that Apple has scaled back its plans for an AI-powered coaching feature in the health app.

This was codenamed Project Mulberry and has been in the works inside Apple for a long time.

It was an AI agent being trained on data from Apple hired physicians and would rely on sleep experts,

nutritionists, physical therapists, mental health experts,

and cardiologists to create educational video content for the health app.

The goal was to create a system that could generate detailed health reports and deliver

AI-driven recommendations to help users improve their well-being.

It would have combined new surveys and health assessments with data from Apple Watches and

external lab reports.

According to this week's report, however, the project was wound down in recent weeks.

Apple Now plans take some of the features it had planned for the AI offering

and roll them out individually over time within the health app.

The decision followed a leadership shift at Apple's health organization, with services chief Eddie Q taking over after Jeff Williams retired last year.

Q has told his colleagues that Apple needs to move faster and be more competitive

in the health industry, citing increased competition from companies like ORA and Woop.

Q, however, didn't think that this AI health service met that bar, hence the motivation to scrap it

altogether. Next up today, according to a new report, Apple's next iPhone is launching soon.

A German report from Macworld says that the iPhone 17E is set to launch on February 19th.

That's one year to the day following the launch of the iPhone 16E.

The report cites anonymous sources with information circulating among

accessory and case makers inside Apple's supply chain. It would be very odd for Apple to launch a new

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