Apple continues to improve its Health app with features and functions, like medication reminders, that make it a one-stop shop to help you organize and manage all your important health information. And now, Apple’s Health app allows you to record your eyesight information and save it along with other critical health data.

With iOS 16+, you can now use your iPhone and the Health to manage your vision prescription, including for glasses, contacts, or both! And if your prescription changes, you can update it.

At this time, you manually add your vision prescriptions to your iPhone’s Apple Health app. You can also add an image of your prescription to your record, just in case you need to validate this digital version with the original paper version.

And it’s not just for you. You can also add vision prescriptions for your entire family to the Apple Health app so that information is at your fingertips when needed.

Adding your vision prescription to the Health app can be a lifesaver, especially if you often lose your glasses or contacts at the most inconvenient times, like when traveling or when away from home.

So let’s learn how to add our vision prescription to the Health app!

Before you start, ensure you have your original prescription with you so you can manually enter its details. Also, you can only add vision prescriptions to iPhones that run iOS 16 and above.

If you made a mistake, it’s pretty easy to correct it.

If you haven’t updated your iPhone to iOS 16+ or use an older model that won’t update to it, then check out these alternatives to save your vision prescription information.

It’s nice to add your vision prescription to the Health app. Although, at this time, it is a manual process, we expect your vision information to be one of the health records that the Health app supports automatically in the future, so stay tuned.

Apple continues to expand its Health app to be the main repository of your personal and private health information, where you can see all your health records — such as medications, immunizations, lab results, and now vision prescriptions — in one convenient and secure place. 

For those worried about data privacy, Apple encrypts all of your health and fitness data in the Health app (other than your Medical ID), so it is inaccessible by default when your iPhone is locked with a passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID. And if you store your Health data in iCloud, it is encrypted end-to-end.

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