Your answers can capture strain that a watch cannot see. Life Balance exists because workload, support, meaning, and boundaries are lived experiences.
Body Insights scores the completed questionnaire across its supported life domains and summarizes the pattern into an overall balance view. It does not feed those answers into the physiological Burnout Risk formula.
What does life balance score mean?
The result reflects how you described current balance across the questionnaire domains. It is a structured reflection, not an objective grade of your life.
The useful question is not whether one reading is perfect. It is whether the same signal keeps moving in a way that matches your sleep, symptoms, activity, and recovery. Body Insights keeps the underlying rows visible so the headline never has to stand alone.
What goes into the calculation?
Body Insights reads the available inputs from Apple Health and the app's own history. It does not create missing wearable measurements.
- Your completed answers to the current questionnaire
- The domain mapping for each question
- Completion and recency of the assessment
Responses are converted through the questionnaire's defined scoring rules and grouped into domain summaries before the overall presentation is created.
What happens when data is missing?
Unanswered items reduce completion. They should not be silently treated as neutral or positive answers.
This matters because "not measured" is not the same as "bad." A watch charging overnight, an incomplete Health permission, or a short history can reduce what the calculation knows without saying anything negative about your body.
What can change the result?
New answers, changed circumstances, mood, interpretation of a question, and the time since completion can change the result.
If a result looks surprising, check the input rows first. A single missing night, unusual workout, illness, medication change, travel day, or sensor gap can explain more than the headline number.
What can this calculation not tell you?
The score cannot diagnose burnout, depression, anxiety, or workplace harm. It also cannot replace your own judgment about safety and support.
Body Insights is a pattern-reading tool, not a diagnostic device. Bring persistent, severe, or worrying changes to a qualified clinician, especially when the number and how you feel disagree for several days.
Read the reason, not only the number
Look for the domain with the clearest tension. The value is in naming what feels out of balance, not obtaining a perfect total.
Body Insights reads data that Apple Watch and compatible devices place in Apple Health. The purpose of this page is to make that translation inspectable without publishing gameable score weights or pretending a wearable estimate is a clinical test.