Medical ID stores emergency health details on your iPhone, including allergies, medications, medical conditions, blood type, and emergency contacts. The important option is Show When Locked, which lets first responders view the information without unlocking the phone.
Medical ID is built into the Health app on current iPhones.
Does This Affect You?
Use this if you want important medical information and emergency contacts available from the Lock Screen in a crisis.
Create Your Medical ID
- Open the Health app.
- Tap your profile picture or initials.
- Tap Medical ID.
- Tap Edit or Get Started.
- Fill in relevant details such as medical conditions, allergies and reactions, medications, blood type, height and weight, and organ donor status.
- Add emergency contacts and choose their relationship to you.
- Turn on Show When Locked.
- Tap Done.
View Medical ID from the Lock Screen
- Wake the locked iPhone and go to the passcode screen.
- Tap Emergency.
- Tap Medical ID.
- Review what appears and confirm it is accurate.
No passcode, Face ID, or Touch ID is needed to view Medical ID when Show When Locked is enabled.
Medical ID Notes
Emergency Contacts
Emergency contacts added here are also used by Emergency SOS. After an emergency call, iPhone can text them your location.
Keep It Current
Update Medical ID when medications, allergies, conditions, or emergency contact numbers change.
Privacy
Because Medical ID is intentionally viewable from a locked iPhone, avoid adding information you would not want a stranger to see. Emergency contact names and phone numbers are usually enough.
Sources
- Apple Support: Set up Medical ID on iPhone
- Apple Support: Get emergency help with iPhone
- Apple Support: Use the Health app on iPhone