How to Set Up Emergency Contacts & Medical ID on iPhone!

In this lesson from our Contacts for iOS Tutorial we cover how to set up Emergency Contacts and your Medical ID on iPhone — two features that could be critically important in an emergency. We’ll walk through how to designate any contact as an emergency contact directly from the Contacts app, what the medical icon next to a contact’s name means, and how emergency contacts are automatically notified when Emergency SOS is triggered on your iPhone. From there, we jump into the Health app to explore your Medical ID — how to add and remove emergency contacts from there, and what information you can store, including blood type, allergies, and medical history. Finally, we cover the key settings you need to enable so that first responders can access your Medical ID from the lock screen, even without your passcode.

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