Updates, tips, and how-tos for the PHR Health Records iPad app.
Your Apple Watch quietly keeps good records — your heart rate through the day, how you slept, the occasional ECG. PHR can pull that history in so it lives alongside the rest of your health record, no retyping. The one thing to know up front is that the watch doesn't talk to PHR directly: its data flows into the Health app on your iPhone, and PHR reads it from a Health export file.
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Our earlier post made the case for backing up — the short version is that your records live on your iPad, and a backup is the only thing standing between you and starting over. Since then, the Backup screen has been redesigned and PHR can now back up on its own. Here's what changed.
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The Blood Pressure Tracker gives you one place inside PHR to log your readings and watch them over time — right alongside the rest of your health records, no separate app required.
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The Glucose Tracker gives you one place inside PHR to log blood glucose readings and look back over them — sitting right alongside the rest of your health records, no separate app required.
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Plenty of people end up tracking health information for more than themselves — a spouse, a couple of kids, an aging parent. The app is built for that: you can keep a separate record for each person, move between them whenever you need to, and never mix anyone's information together.
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A few months of doctor visits, prescription updates, and lab results live in your PHR file. If the only copy is the one on your iPad, you're one mistake away from starting over from scratch. The Backup function exists so that doesn't happen — but it only helps if you actually use it.
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PHR has had an Ask AI button on every Question screen for a while. What's new: Google's free tier on its Gemini API is a great fit for personal use — sign in to AI Studio with any Google account, grab an API key, and you're answering questions in minutes.
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Filling out a form on your iPad and the next-field arrows skip right over pull-down menus? That's how iPad works — and there's a simple two-second workaround.
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The Patient screen now has a Medical History card — a quick, scannable spot for the kind of background every new clinician asks about up front. It sits just below Lifestyle.
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The Medications screen now lets you build your own column layouts. Show the fields that matter to you, hide the ones that don't, drag them into the order you like, and save the whole arrangement as a named View you can switch back to in one tap.
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