Features discovered by chance and after months are really amazing and make you happy, such as the ability to remove the last number you wrote on the calculator by drawing on it. And in iOS 8, Apple added some of these features that it does not announce, but some discover it by chance, such as the wonderful medical ID feature, which may be a reason to save your life one day (my friend).

Medical ID ... the feature that could save your life

Apple added the health system in iOS 8, but most of us did not care about it and did not use any of its applications for separate reasons, such as insufficient applications that support it, or because our hospitals are not supported, or even some of them do not know the existence of something called iOS 8 and Apple from the foundation: D. But the next feature Must, and we must repeat You can use it and activate it in your device immediately.

When you open the health application, which is present by default in iOS 8, you will find in it the "medical identity", in short, its idea is to be a medical reference for you, adding your name, picture, blood type, any diseases you suffer from, test results, and do you have an allergy to some medications, the last date of blood donation, your weight, your height and everything Of your health. The main benefit of this feature is that if you go to any doctor to give your phone and open your medical identity to him, he will know everything about your health.

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Now imagine with me that a person - may God bless us and you - had an accident and was transferred to the hospital, the doctor examined him and decided to give him an injection of X drug and this person had an allergy to this drug, what will happen? Often, complications and death will occur. The emergency doctor is not aware that this unconscious person has a rare allergy to this drug and has inadvertently caused his death. Of course, he is an unconscious person who cannot ask him and grabbed his phone to call any friend of his, and he found that he had put a password, so what is the solution then?

The solution developed by Apple, which is the ability to show the Medical ID on the lock screen, through the following steps:

1

Open the Health app then go to the last tab under the name "Medical Identity" and then type "Create a Medical Identity"

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2

Write your data and any data you deem useful, and do not forget the most important feature, which is "Add an emergency contact" to show the number and name of an emergency person, as we will explain later.

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3

After adding all the data you want, at the top, activate the "Show when locked" option.

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Congratulations, it is all over, now if someone grabs your device when it is locked, he can press the emergency button, then he will find the medical ID option.

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By clicking on the medical ID option, the data you have chosen will appear, as well as the number of the person you want to call in case of emergency. Of course, you can only add the number of an emergency person in the medical ID and do not add any other data, as shown in the following picture:

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We strongly advise all of our followers to do the medical ID, even if it is only the number of an emergency person, because you are what may happen in the future, and you also have to tell everyone you know so that they do it, as it may be a cause of a person’s survival, my friend.

Did you activate the medical ID for your device? And were you taking advantage of the rest of the health system benefits in iOS 8?

Thank you to our friend Ismail Ibn Ahmad Al-Barqi for sending the information

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