You can securely download and store a verifiable digital copy of your COVID-19 vaccination and test result records in the Health app.
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About verifiable vaccination and test result records
With iOS 15, you can securely store verifiable versions of your COVID-19 test results and immunization records in the Health app on your iPhone or iPod touch. Test results or immunization records downloaded in this verifiable format are digitally signed by a vaccine or test result provider. This is similar to providing paper documents with an official seal.
You can download verifiable vaccination and test result records if your vaccine or test result provider supports this format. Check with your provider to see if they support verifiable health records.
Learn more about the supported technology for verifiable health records.
Add your vaccinations and test results
Depending on where you received your COVID-19 vaccinations or tests, your state or provider might support one of the following ways to add your verifiable health records to the Health app.
If your provider supports Health Records on iPhone
If you received your COVID-19 vaccination through a healthcare provider that supports Health Records on iPhone and verifiable health records, you can connect to your provider in the Health app. After you connect, your available verifiable health records are automatically downloaded.
Learn more about how to add your health records.
If you received a download file
You can download a verifiable health record given to you by your COVID-19 vaccination or test provider to add the records to the Health app.
- Tap the download link on your iPhone or iPod touch.
- Tap Add to Health to add the record to the Health app.
- Tap Done.
If you received a QR code
You can scan a QR code given to you by your COVID-19 vaccination or test provider to add your verifiable health records to the Health app.
- Open the Camera app from the Home screen, Control Center, or Lock screen on your iPhone or iPod touch.
- Select the rear-facing camera.
- Hold your device so that the QR code appears in the viewfinder in the Camera app. Your device recognizes the QR code and shows a Health app notification.
- Tap the Health app notification.
- Tap Add to Health to add the record to the Health app.
- Tap Done.
View a verifiable health record
Once you've downloaded and stored a verifiable health record in the Health app, you can view it at any time.
- Open the Health app, then tap Browse.
- Tap Immunizations or Lab Results.
- Tap the verifiable health record you want to view.
Your verifiable health record in the Health app contains information such as your first and last name, date of birth, vaccine or test administered, as well as the QR code associated with that verifiable health record.
Share a verifiable health record
You can choose to share verifiable health records with third-party apps when an approved app requests access to this information. When apps request access to verifiable health records, you can select which specific records to share, and those records are shared only once with the app. Third party apps do not have continuous access to verifiable health records that you share.
Because these records are in a verifiable format, if you choose to share these lab result and immunization records with third party apps — like businesses or event venues — third party apps can confirm that the record was issued by the lab test or vaccine provider, and has not been altered since it was issued.
Apple is not part of the third party’s verification process and will not have access to this data when imported or shared.
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