Key Highlights
- You can track medications on Apple Watch
- It lets you input a medication list you take and set a specific reminder schedule for each drug
- Here’s how the feature works
Unfortunately, it’s all too easy to forget to take your supplements, prescriptions, and vitamins, particularly on days when your regular schedule is entirely ignored. Fortunately, you can help yourself remember to take your medication on time by setting a simple reminder on your iPhone or Apple Watch.
Apple has given the Apple Watch a much-needed capability. Users can keep track of their meds and set up reminders with the new Medications app in WatchOS 9. You can keep track of your pills and log them with reminders in the Medications app on your Apple Watch. Here’s how to configure an Apple Watch medicine schedule.
WatchOS 9 Compatibility
The listed Apple Watch models can download WatchOS 9:
- Apple Watch SE (2020)
- Apple Watch Series 4
- Apple Watch Series 5
- Apple Watch Series 6
- Apple Watch SE (2022)
- Apple Watch Series 7
- Apple Watch Series 8
- Apple Watch Ultra
How You Can Track Your Medications On Apple Watch?
According to Apple, based on the schedule you’ve set up in the Health app on your iPhone, your Apple Watch will automatically remind you when it’s time to take your meds. Follow these steps to record your prescriptions:
Step 1: Tap the notification if you have received one asking you to log your prescriptions. If not, launch the Medication app on your Apple Watch.
Step 2: Tap the current medications schedule – the medications you take in the morning, for example.
Step 3: Press ‘Log All as Taken.’ The dosage, the number of units consumed, and the moment you took the medication are all recorded by Apple Watch.
Step 4: Scroll down, select a drug under ‘Your Medications,’ and then select ‘Log’ to record each medication. Under Logged, the name of the drug and the time logged are shown.
Step 5: In order to change the status of a logged medication, you have to tap it, and click on ‘Taken’ or ‘Skipped.’
Step 6: Now, tap on ‘Done.’ That’s all.