Pacemaker Mode in My Bio Age: Settings and Scoring Limits
Learn how to enable My Bio Age’s optional pacemaker setting and why its adjusted wellness score is not a clinically validated pacemaker assessment.
By My Bio Age
My Bio Age provides a manual pacemaker setting for its consumer wellness scoring. It changes the treatment of selected inputs in the MyBioAge Index™. It does not inspect your implanted device, determine its settings or check whether it is working correctly.
Enable the setting yourself
Open Settings, find Medical Conditions and enable “I have a pacemaker”. The app does not automatically detect a pacemaker from HRV. Do not rely on a score to infer whether the setting is appropriate for your medical circumstances.
What changes in the model
The pacemaker path excludes HRV from the Index calculation and changes the emphasis of the remaining metrics. That adjustment does not establish that the resulting biological age estimate is clinically accurate for pacemaker users.
Other heart-derived measurements can still need individual interpretation. A wearable score cannot account for every pacing mode, medication, heart condition or device configuration.
Apple notes in its cardio fitness documentation that conditions or medications which limit heart rate can affect a VO₂max estimate. Ask your care team which wearable observations are useful for you.
Compare trends with care
The Index is a weekly wellness estimate. Enabling the setting does not guarantee that previously saved weekly scores will be immediately recalculated. A change in settings can also make earlier and later values less comparable.
Use the underlying records as context for a conversation, not as a device check or an exercise clearance. A green Recovery score does not override symptoms or the guidance supplied by your clinician.
Privacy
The setting and calculations remain on your iPhone. My Bio Age does not send your pacemaker status to clinical partners. Product support can explain how to find the setting; medical interpretation belongs with your care team.
For a personal wellness dashboard with a Pacemaker Mode you control, download My Bio Age free on the App Store. The iPhone app is completely free, with no in-app purchases, subscription or account required. Your health data is processed privately on your iPhone.