Medisafe provides short videos for most medications in which doctors describe the medication and explain possible side effects and other helpful information. If you’re taking multiple medications, the app will even flag possible interactions. The free version is great, but you can get rid of the ads and unlock some additional customization options with a subscription ($5/month or $40/year).
How to set reminders on your Android phone
There are several ways you can set up medication reminders on your Android phone.
Use Google Assistant
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The fastest and easiest way to set reminders on your Android phone is to use Google Assistant. For example, you could say: “Hey Google, remind me to take my medicine at 9 a.m. every day.”
If you set up a family group, you can also set reminders for other people in your family, such as “Hey Google, remind Jenny to take her medicine at 8pm every night.”
To view and adjust any reminders you’ve set, say “Hey Google, show me reminders.”
Use Google Calendar
You can also set medication reminders in Google Calendar.Open the Calendar app, select a day, and click add icon and select remind.You can specify the time and click where it will appear Not repeatingthen change to every day Or set another interval.When you’re satisfied with the details, click save.
Using medication apps
As we said above, among the many medicine apps available for Android, our top pick is Medisafe’s Pill Reminder and Med Tracker. This nifty app is the Android version of the iPhone app we recommended above, and it’s easy to set up and offers the same rich functionality. You can set reminders for multiple medications, track your taking, set refill alerts, track symptoms and get warnings about possible interactions.
How to set reminders on Samsung phone
In addition to the methods listed above for Android phones, Samsung also offers excellent medication reminders in the Health app on Samsung phones. The setting method is as follows:
- Open the Health app and scroll down to drug section and click on it.
- tap Add medication and start typing the name of your medication. You should see a list of suggestions pop up.If you can’t find yours, tap Add custom medication at the bottom.
- After selecting your medication, you can choose the type and strength. You can also identify the shape of the pill on the next screen.
- Now it’s time to create your schedule. You can choose the time and dosage you want and the period to complete the course (if applicable).
- The last screen allows you to view the plan you created and set drug nicknames and notes if you wish.beat save If everything looks good.
- The last screen warns you about potential interactions with other drugs or substances, such as alcohol. You can click on a possible interaction to get more information about the risk.
- Once added, you will see your medications listed through the Health app drug At the top there is a schedule and a log of actions that must be taken each day.You can mark it for today by clicking take.
- Click on any drug inside your medicines section to edit the record.You can also add the number of remaining pills and open Additional reminder.
- After taking the medicine, click on the medicine below your medicines Then click on the three vertical dots in the upper right corner file or delete.you should use file If you want to keep a record of this medicine and when you took it.
- You can also open the Health app and tap drug section, click the three vertical dots in the upper right corner and select Share medication list.