Almost two months have passed since the announcement of iOS 16 in June 2022, and during this time we have seen quite a few innovations in this OS. Several useful features in Safari, improved Siri and many other nuances – all this makes iOS 16 a long-awaited update.
Today we decided to collect some new features of the Health app for you. They are very useful for older people – you can tell your grandparents about them, and maybe even your parents.
1. Medication Schedule
Perhaps the most important innovation of “Health” in iOS 16 is the work with medicines. A brand new section in the app will allow you to enter all the pills you take and conveniently track your usage schedule. You can make prescription drugs and without, as well as vitamins.
To find a new section, open the Health app, tap Browse, and look for the appropriate entry. It can also be found through the search bar at the top. To add medicines, click the appropriate button and fill in the details: you can simply scan the package, or enter everything manually. By the way, it is possible to customize the appearance of the tablet icon so that it looks like a real one. Set the frequency of taking the medicine – you can choose a specific day, interval, several days a week, and also set the time of taking.
2. Medication reminders
After you have entered all your medications into the Health app and set up an appointment schedule, your smartphone will send reminders in accordance with it. Notifications will come strictly at the set time.
When a notification arrives, you can click on it and select “Accepted” or “Missed”. The corresponding mark will appear in the “Health” graph. Subsequently, it will be possible to see how regularly you take the pills during the week, month, year, etc.
3. Interactions
After adding all your medicines to the Health app, it will check the medicines known to it for compatibility with each other. If the tablets cannot be taken at the same time, the smartphone will notify you of this.
4. Instructions for medicines
The application will load the instructions for the medicines known to it and display the indications and side effects in a convenient way. Information is provided by the Dutch company Elsevier – most likely, not all Russian tablets will be known to her.
5. Export
In the “Drugs” section, you can export the list of medicines you take. It will be saved as a PDF file that you can show or send to your doctor.
6. Sharing health data
The Health app now lets you share your owner’s health tracking with other users. It will be useful to remotely monitor the well-being of an elderly or sick relative – just set up data sharing on your device once. The feature is only available to family members with an Apple ID.
7. Features of sleep
In addition to working with medications, Apple has improved sleep analysis for Apple Watch owners. Now the sleep recorded by the watch will be divided into categories: REM sleep, deep sleep, light sleep or wakefulness. As a result, you can view the graph and understand how well you rested at night. Sleep data can now be viewed not only for the week, but also for the day.
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