See all the new health features iOS 16 will bring

New features in the Health app

With iOS 16, the Health app gets a new feature called Medications. With it, you will be able to track your medications, vitamins, or supplements directly from your iPhone. The addition to the Health app will let you create lists with your pills and manage them. Furthermore, it will allow you to create schedules for when to take your prescriptions and reminders for not forgetting to take them.

If you live in the United States, you will even be able to use your iPhone's camera to add a medication by just pointing it at the label. If there is a critical drug interaction, US users will also receive an alert when they add it to their list.

For the new Health app feature, Apple has partnered with Elsevier, a leading medical publisher, and if you live in the US, in addition to the alert, you will also receive "clinically accurate and evidence-based information" about your medications. As Cupertino showcased, US users will be able to review critical, serious, and moderate drug interactions as well as see interaction factors like alcohol.

The new Medications feature is also supported by the Health Sharing option, which means that you will be able to share your medication data with your loved ones as well.

As Tim Cook said at the end of the WWDC live stream, we may expect iOS 16 and all of the cool features that will come with it to be released to Apple users this fall.