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Everything about keeping medicines on time: setting up a schedule, making sure the reminder actually arrives, looking after someone else's doses, and keeping a record worth showing a doctor.

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How to set a medication reminder on your iPhone

Add a medicine, pick the times it is taken, allow notifications once — and your iPhone will tell you when each dose is due, with a button to record it.

Add a medicine and set its doses

Everything in the medicine editor, field by field: name and strength, form, schedule, dose times and amounts, food, stock, start and end dates.

Mark a dose as taken, or skip it

Four places to record a dose: the notification, the widget, the Today screen and Simple mode — plus what Skip means and when to use it.

What Pill Reminder does, and what it deliberately does not

An honest list: the app reminds, records and reports. It does not give dosing advice, check interactions or sync anything to a cloud — and here is why.

Medication reminders not showing up on iPhone: how to fix it

Why a medication reminder does not arrive — notification permission, Focus, silent mode, Low Power Mode, Scheduled Summary — and the setting to change for each.

The second reminder, and what Snooze does

If you do not answer a dose, the app asks again — by default after 30 minutes. How to change that, how snooze differs, and how to turn both off.

Alarm-style reminders that ring through silent mode

For a medicine that cannot be missed: a reminder that rings like the Clock app's alarm, through silent mode and Focus, until you stop it. iOS 26 and later, with PRO.

Hide medicine names on the Lock Screen

What you take is nobody else's business. One switch makes every reminder say only that it is time for your medicine — the name stays inside the app.

Medication reminders when you change time zone

Some medicines should follow the local clock; others must keep an exact interval. Pick per medicine, and the app does the arithmetic for the flight and for daylight saving.

Why the app asks you to open it to keep reminders coming

iOS holds at most 64 pending notifications per app. Here is how Pill Reminder spends that budget, and why one reminder sometimes asks you to open the app.

Every day, specific days, or every few days

The four schedule types and when each one is right — including the difference between “every second day” and “Monday, Wednesday, Friday”, which are not the same thing.

Several doses a day, with different amounts

Two in the morning and one at night is two times, each with its own amount. How to set up a multi-dose medicine and how the doses appear on the day.

As-needed medicines: painkillers, inhalers, antihistamines

Medicines with no schedule still belong in the record. Log a dose when you take one, and see how often you have been reaching for it.

A course of medicine with a start and an end date

A week of antibiotics should stop reminding you after a week. Set an end date and the medicine finishes by itself, with its history intact.

Half tablets, liquids, drops, inhalers and injections

The form you pick decides how a dose is counted and worded — tablets in halves, liquid in ml, an inhaler in puffs, an injection in units.

Before food, with food, or after food

Mark how a dose relates to a meal and it is shown on the reminder and on Today — as information, never as a rule the app enforces.

Track how many pills are left and get a refill reminder

Tell the app how many you have and it counts down with every dose recorded, then warns you a few days before you run out — while there is still time to get a prescription.

Tell your pills apart: colour, shape and a photo

Give each medicine the colour and shape it really has, or a photo of the box, so the right one is obvious at a glance — to you or to whoever is helping.

Look after the whole family's medicines from one iPhone

A profile for each person, each with their own medicines, reminders and history — and reminders that say whose dose it is. Part of PRO, shared through Family Sharing.

Helping an elderly parent take their medicine

Two ways to set it up: their phone made as simple as possible, or their medicines on your phone. What each one is good for, and the settings that matter.

Simple mode: today's medicines, large buttons, nothing else

One screen, large type, one button per dose. For someone who needs to tick off their medicines and nothing more — and it cannot be left by accident.

Your medication history and what adherence means

A calendar of every day, a figure for how much of what was planned was actually taken, and a day view that shows exactly what happened. 30 days free; everything with PRO.

A medication report you can hand to your doctor

A PDF of 30, 90 or 365 days: every planned dose with what was recorded, and how often each medicine was taken. Make it before the appointment, share it from the phone.

What happens when you miss a dose

The app records it and says nothing else — on purpose. What it does, what it will never do, and how to find the pattern behind the misses.

Fix a dose you recorded by mistake

Tapped Taken too early, or Skip instead? Undo it from Today, or open the day in History and set the record straight.

Where your medication data is kept

On your iPhone, and nowhere else. No account, no server, no iCloud sync — and the Apple guideline that is the reason for the last one.

Back up your medicines, and move to a new iPhone

A backup is one file you keep. Make one before a new phone, a restore or a big change — and know that restoring replaces everything.

Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID

One switch puts your medicines behind the same check that unlocks your phone — useful on a shared phone, and what keeps Simple mode from being left.

The next-dose widget on your Home and Lock Screen

What is due next, and a button to record it, without opening anything. Five sizes, including the small ones on the Lock Screen.

Free and PRO: exactly what each one includes

Reminders are free for as many medicines as you like, and they never stop working. PRO adds family profiles, alarm-style reminders, full history and the doctor's report.