How to Add Emergency Info to Your Phone's Lock Screen

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What would happen if you needed urgent care, but couldn't communicate with first responders, for example, as a result of being unconscious? People with serious known conditions, including those prone to seizures or that have an implanted device, might wear a bracelet or necklace explaining their medical situation. For everyone else, how will emergency teams find out your blood type, allergies, or whom to call? One of the easiest solutions is to put this information on your phone and make it accessible from the lock screen.

If you have a smartphone, it's really easy to do. Just as importantly, however, you should know how to find this information for someone else and alert their emergency contacts. I'll explain how to set it up first and then show you where to find it on almost anyone's phone.

How to Add Emergency Information to an iPhone

With an iPhone, you can make a lot of emergency information available from the lock screen: medical conditions, medical notes, blood type, emergency contact information, and more. Here's how to add it:

1. Open the Apple Health app, which comes preinstalled on all devices running iOS 8 and later. This app can't be uninstalled.

2. At the top right, tap your profile photo.

3. Choose Medical ID. Tap Edit.

4. Under Emergency Access, make sure Show When Locked is toggled on, so that you see green.

5. At the very top of this page, there's a spot for a profile photo. Put in a recent picture of your face. It'll help emergency responders know that they're looking at your information.

6. Below that are several fields: medical conditions, medical notes, allergies and reactions, medications, blood type, organ donor, and so forth. Fill in as much information as is relevant to you. If you have no known allergies or aren't taking medication, it still helps to write "None" or "None known" so that medical personnel don't assume you've overlooked this information.

7. Scroll down farther and you'll see the next step is to assign at least one person as your emergency contact. You can assign more than one. Those names and numbers must be listed in your Contacts app. Otherwise, you won't be able to import them into the Health app. I'll explain in the next section how and when your phone contacts those people.

8. At the top right, press Done to save your info.

How to Use Emergency Information on an iPhone

Now that you have your information set, you need to know how it works both for yourself and for anyone else you may need to help in an emergency.

From the lock screen—when you can see the call to enter a passcode—it says Emergency in the lower-left corner. Tap it, and a dial pad appears with a Medical ID link at the bottom. If you press Medical ID, all the emergency information is visible.

There's another way to make an emergency call and alert all the listed emergency contacts of the phone's location. Apple calls it Emergency SOS. It's designed so that you can use it quickly and immediately, even if you need to hide the fact that you're making the call.

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