How to track medication on iPhone and Apple Watch

By the Streaks team · 20 October 2026

Your iPhone already has a medication tracker: the Medications section of the Apple Health app. Add each medication with its schedule, and Health reminds you when a dose is due and keeps a log of what you've taken. You can log doses from your iPhone or your Apple Watch.

This guide is about remembering and recording the medication you've been prescribed. It isn't medical advice. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about your doses, timing and what to do if you miss one.

Add your medications to the Health app

Open the Health app and tap Browse (or search) for Medications.
Tap Add Medication. Search for it by name, or on recent iPhones scan the label with the camera.
Choose the type and strength, such as a 500 mg tablet.
Set the schedule: every day, specific days or as needed, and the times and doses.
Optionally choose a shape and colour, which makes it easier to tell similar pills apart.

The Health app also checks for some known interactions between the medications you add, and with alcohol and other things, and shows you any it finds. Discuss anything it flags with your pharmacist.

Reminders and logging

Once a medication has a schedule, Health sends a reminder when it's due. From the notification, or from the Medications section, mark it as Taken or Skipped. On Apple Watch, the Medications app shows what's due and lets you log it from your wrist.

Health keeps the record, so you can scroll back and see what you took and when. That's useful at appointments, or when you can't remember whether you took this morning's dose.

Make it a habit

Reminders help, but the most reliable way to remember medication is to tie it to something you do every day without fail.

Anchor it. Take it with breakfast, after brushing your teeth, or with your evening meal, if your instructions allow.
Keep it where you'll see it at that moment, and somewhere safe if there are children in the house.
Log it straight away. If you log it later, you'll eventually be unsure whether you took it.
Use a pill organiser for several medications. A glance shows whether today's compartment is empty.
Plan for travel. Take extra, and check how time zone changes affect your schedule.

See it alongside your other habits in Streaks

If you use Streaks for your other daily habits, its Medication task brings your medications into the same view, with a streak for the days you took them.

Tap Add a Task, choose the heart icon, then Medication.
Choose one or more of the medications you've added in the Health app.
Allow Streaks to read your medication data when asked.

The task completes itself when the selected medications are logged as taken in Health, whether you logged them from the reminder, the Health app or your Apple Watch.

A few things to know:

Log doses in Health. Streaks can only read medication data, so you can't record a dose by tapping the task. Use the Health app's reminder or Medications section.
Add medications in Health first. If the list in Streaks is empty, add them to the Medications section of the Health app.
It needs a recent version of iOS. The Medication task needs iOS 26 or later, and watchOS 26 or later on Apple Watch.
Choose the right days. For a medication you take on some days only, set the task's days to match, so the days off don't count against your streak.

Your medication data stays in the Health app and on your devices. Streaks doesn't send it anywhere. See our privacy policy.

If you miss a dose

Follow the instructions that came with your medication, or ask your pharmacist. Don't take a double dose to make up for one you missed unless you've been told to. In Health, mark the missed dose as Skipped so your record stays accurate.

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