How to Add Your Vision Prescription on iPhone Health App on iOS 16

With iOS 16, iPhones will not only be attractive to look at and functional to use, they also promise to teach you about your health and fitness. Besides letting you track all your fitness activities, you can use your iPhone to add and update your vision prescriptions in the Health app so you can easily check them every time you switch to a new pair of lenses.

In this document, we will explain what Vision Prescription on Health is and how you can add your own on iOS 16.

What is Vision Prescription on Health in iOS 16?

The Health app on iOS 16 offers a handful of features, including medication tracking, reminders and logging for each medication, multiple drug interactions, and the ability to securely share health data with loved ones. On top of all that, you can now add your eye prescriptions to the Health app, so you can take them with you digitally wherever you want and track your eye improvements in a timely manner.

The new Vision Prescription section can help people who use glasses and contact lenses by providing them with a digital copy of their eye parameters when buying new glasses or checking for improvements during an eye exam. You can record more than one prescription for your vision and all of these records are securely stored on your iPhone.

How to Add Your Vision Prescription to the Health App on iPhone

If you wear glasses or contact lenses and have recently visited your optometrist for an eye exam, you can add the updated vision measurements to the Health app on iOS 16. To do this, open it Health app on your iPhone.

When the app launches, tap the Browse tab in the lower right corner.

On the next screen, select Body measurements.

Here scroll down and tap Visual prescription.

This will take you to the Vision Prescription screen. Here press Add an order at the top.

A labeled overflow menu will load onto the screen which allows you to enter the prescription details for your eyes. In the topmost section, you can choose the Lens Type (Glasses or Contacts), enter the Posted and expiration date for the purpose, and an appropriate description for it.

Apple recommends that you add a photo of your vision prescription, as suggested by your optometrist. To do this, press Add a picture and select how you want to add the photo from the options available to you.

With that done, you can now move on to more important things, i.e. enter your important vision data into their relevant fields. The first to fill in is the most important information – your Right sphere (OD) and Left sphere (OS). The values ​​here indicate the actual power of your lens and this determines how nearsighted or farsighted you are.

Then you need to enter the suggested values ​​inside right cylinder and Left cylinder boxes. These values ​​determine the power needed by the lens to correct your astigmatism.

After that you need to enter your straight axis and Left axis values ​​that correspond to your cylindrical measurements. These values ​​are an indication of the angle at which your lens positions your astigmatism corrections.

If you suffer from age-related hyperopia, you can add the prescribed magnification value to the good addition and Addition to the left boxes.

As measured by your optometrist, enter your Pupillary distance inside of Right and Left boxes. The addition of these two values ​​represents the distance between the centers of your right and left pupils.

Once you have filled the prescription entirely based on the values ​​provided after the eye exam, scroll up and tap To add.

If you added an image of your prescription, the Health app will save the new vision prescription directly. If not, you will receive a warning prompting you to add an image of the prescription. If you want to continue without adding, press To confirm.

Your vision prescription will now be saved in the Health app on your iPhone.

How to display your visual prescription on the Health app

If you saved your vision prescription on your iPhone, you can consult it by opening the Health app on iOS 16.

When the app opens, tap the Browse tab basically.

In Browse, select Body measurements in the list of options.

When the next screen loads, you should be able to see your recent vision prescription at the top. Tap your recent prescription to open it.

The selected prescription will now open where you will see the issue and expiration date at the top, followed by an image of your prescription.

You can scroll down this screen to see more details that you have manually added to your prescription.

If you have saved multiple prescriptions in the Health app, tap All prescriptions below to load them onto the screen.

All of your vision prescriptions will now appear here.

That’s all you need to know to add your vision prescription to the Health app on iOS 16.