How to Export Medications from Apple Health

The Health app has tracked medications since iOS 16: the list of what you take, the schedule you set, and a tap to log each dose. It is one of the most useful things in Apple Health for an actual appointment - and for years it was the one thing you could not get out of it into an app of your choosing.

That changed with iOS 26. This guide shows you how to export your medication list, and the doses you logged in any date range, as one PDF, CSV, or JSON using vitalina, an iPhone app that reads your Apple Health data locally and never uploads it anywhere.

Why medications could not be exported before iOS 26

Medications arrived in the Health app in 2022 as a feature for you, with no developer access whatsoever. No app on the App Store could read your medication list, which is why no health export app supported it - including vitalina.

iOS 26 shipped the HealthKit Medications API and made it readable, on a strictly read-only basis: an app can show you your medications and doses, and can never create, change, or delete one. vitalina 1.15.0 was built on that API.

If you are on an older iPhone, Apple's own workaround still exists: open the Health app, go to Browse > Medications, and choose Export Medications List PDF. It gives you the list, but not your dose log, and it cannot be combined with your other health data in one report.

Step 1: Install or update vitalina

Install vitalina from the App Store or update it to 1.15.0 or later. The app is free to use with no account or sign-up; medications specifically are part of vitalina Pro, a one-time purchase.

Step 2: Approve the medications you want to share

This step works differently from every other kind of health data. For heart rate or sleep you grant access to a category once. For medications, Apple shows you one switch per medication: you decide individually which ones an app may read, and you can turn any of them off again later in Health > Sharing > Apps.

Sharing only some of your medications is completely normal, not an error. Every medication report vitalina produces states on the page that it reflects only the medications you shared - so a doctor is never misled into reading a partial list as your complete one.

Step 3: Select Medications in a custom export

Create a custom export and scroll to the Medications group, then select the Medications data type inside it. You can add other data to the same export - many people pair medications with blood pressure or symptoms so a single report shows what changed and what was taken.

Step 4: Pick a date range

The date range applies to your dose log. Your medication list itself is a standing roster with no dates, so it is always exported in full - a 7-day export still shows everything you currently take.

Because medications are a Pro feature, every range is available to you: 30 days, 3 months, 1 year, all time, or a custom range. Three months is a good default for a routine review; match the range to the treatment your doctor wants to look at.

Step 5: Choose your export format

• PDF: a doctor-ready Medication Report with a summary, your medication list, and the dose log grouped per medication.
• CSV: two tables - the medication list and the dose log - that open in Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers.
• JSON: one record per medication with its doses nested inside, for analysis tooling. See the export format reference for the wider schema.

Step 6: Export and share

Tap Export Now. vitalina builds the file on your iPhone within seconds - then email it to your care team, AirDrop it, save it to Files, or print a copy to take with you.

What the medication PDF contains

The PDF is the format built for the appointment itself. A medication report has three parts, in this order:

• Summary - how many active medications, how many archived, and how many doses were logged in the period.
• Medication List - one row per medication with its dosage form, whether it is active or archived, and its dose count.
• Dose Log - a table per medication showing each dose with the date it was logged, the date it was scheduled, its status, and the amount.

Above all of it sits one line of context: "This report reflects the medications shared with vitalina in Apple Health." It is there for the reader, not for you - a doctor should never assume a shared list is an exhaustive one.

Preview of a medications export. On its own it is titled Medication Report; combined with other data it becomes a section of your Health Summary Report under the same headings. The Dose Log appears once there are doses in the period.

What the CSV export contains

Medications are the one export that writes two CSV tables, because the two halves have different shapes: the medication list has no dates, the dose log does. The Concept ID column appears in both and is what joins them - handy for a VLOOKUP or a pivot table.

Opening these in a spreadsheet? The Excel guide covers importing without mangled dates.

What the JSON export contains

JSON keeps the relationship intact instead of splitting it: a medications array where each medication carries its own doses array, so no re-joining is needed.

Every dose status vitalina exports

Apple Health does not only record that a dose happened - it records what happened to it. vitalina prints all 7 statuses exactly as recorded. Nothing is filtered out to make a log look tidier, because "Skipped" and "No Response" are precisely what a doctor is looking for.

Doses can be logged days after the fact, so the log is ordered by the scheduled time where there is one, and by the logged time otherwise. A dose entered late lands where it belongs in the report rather than at the end.

Dosage forms in the export

Each medication carries the dosage form Apple Health has for it, printed in your language:

What is not in the export

Worth knowing before you promise your doctor a full medication history. Some of this Apple does not expose; some of it we deliberately do not do.

• No prescriber or pharmacy, no start and end dates, no refill counts, and no instruction text - Apple's API simply does not include them.
• No separate strength field. Strength usually lives inside the name, so a medication saved as "Atorvastatin 20 mg" exports with that text intact. vitalina never tries to parse a number out of a drug name.
• No adherence score. vitalina reports what was logged and counts it; it does not calculate a percentage, grade your week, or tell you that you missed three doses. Interpretation belongs to you and your doctor.
• No interaction or side-effect warnings. vitalina is an export tool, not a medical one.
• No doctor-issued prescriptions. Those live in Apple's Health Records, a separate feature that connects to your clinic. vitalina does not read it.

How much does vitalina cost?

vitalina is free with 5 unique exports and date ranges up to 14 days. Medications are part of vitalina Pro, a one-time purchase from €3.99 - no subscription - which also unlocks unlimited exports and date ranges up to all time.

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Frequently asked questions about exporting Apple Health medications