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Set up and view Medical ID on Apple Watch

A Medical ID provides information about you that may be important in an emergency, like allergies and medical conditions. When you set up your Medical ID in the Health app on your iPhone, that information is also available on your Apple Watch. If you share your Medical ID, your Apple Watch can send your medical information to emergency services when you call or text 911 or use Emergency SOS (U.S. and Canada only).

Your Apple Watch can display your Medical ID so that it’s available to someone attending to you in an emergency.

The Medical ID screen showing the person’s name, age, language, organ donor status, and emergency contacts.

Set up your Medical ID on iPhone

On your paired iPhone, go to the Health app, then set up your Medical ID with important health information and your emergency contacts. You may also want to turn on Share During Emergency Call.

See Set up and view your Medical ID in the iPhone User Guide.

View your Medical ID on Apple Watch

  1. Press and hold the side button until the sliders appear.

    The emergency services screen. Near the top is the Medical ID slider, in the middle is the Compass Backtrack slider, and at the bottom is the Emergency Call slider.

  2. Slide the Medical ID slider to the right.

  3. Tap Done when you’re finished.

You can also go to the Settings app on your Apple Watch, tap SOS, then tap Medical ID.

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