Note symptoms in the iPhone or iPad Health app so you can keep track and use them when diagnosing the problem.
Keeping track of symptoms you’re having can be an enormous help when needed. Whether it’s a mild symptom or a severe one, it’s important to know the details. If the symptom appears at certain times of the day, a few days in a row, or several times per week, you have an easy way to keep track.
So, if you’re not feeling well or experiencing changes in your body, take a minute to record your symptoms on your iPhone. For the most common symptoms, from abdominal cramps to wheezing, you can add data and have it at your fingertips. This lets you accurately explain symptoms to your physician without forgetting a thing.
Add your symptoms to the iOS Health app
1) Open the Health app on your iPhone running iOS 26, tap the search button at the bottom, and select Symptoms from the list of Health Categories.
2) The first time you add a symptom, you’ll see a list to choose from. Once you add data, it will appear at the top. Select a symptom that you want to add.
3) Now glance at the About [symptom] summary to determine if what you’re experiencing fits into this symptom. Then, tap the plus button at the top.
4) Now, enter the details for the symptom:
- Timing and severity: You can select Not Present or Present based on whether you’re currently experiencing the problem. Or you can simply pick the severity of the symptom from Mild, Moderate, or Severe. Tip: Once you add a symptom as Present, it can be beneficial to go back another time when you are not experiencing it and add data for Not Present. This helps you track how often or at what time of day you have the symptom.
- Date and time: This section will default to your current date and time. But you can adjust it if needed, as well as select an end time. You might also add data for a day and time in the past, like the previous day.
5) When you finish, tap the checkmark at the top to save your symptom to the Apple Health app.
Review your symptoms
After you add a symptom using the steps above, you’ll be back on that symptom’s detail screen. At the top, you’ll see a handy graph with when and how you experienced the symptoms. So you can go back to this screen anytime to review your entries.
Tap the letters at the top to see when you added the symptom and the timing or severity you selected. You can view the data by day (D), week (W), month (M), six months (6M), or year (Y). If you tap the bar on the graph, you can see the time you experienced the symptom in the Day view, the dates in the Week and Month view, or the month in the Year view.
See all symptoms data
To get a breakdown of each time you added data for a symptom, scroll to the bottom of the symptom detail screen and tap Show All Data. You’ll then see a list of the entries and can select one to see full details.
Pin a symptom for quick access
You also have the option to Pin to Summary (formerly called Favorites). This will display it on your Summary tab under the Pinned section. It’s a convenient way to add a symptom you experience frequently, as you can simply tap it from the Summary to add data to it.
One other setting you might adjust for a symptom is Data Sources & Access, which is at the very bottom of the symptom detail screen. If you use other health or medical apps that connect to Apple’s Health app, you can add those using the Data Sources & Access section.
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