Follow your normal medication instructions, log the dose in one tap from iPhone or Apple Watch, and the status is already there the next time you wonder.
Tap Today puts today’s status where you already look: a Lock Screen widget showing All done or the current count, and a Watch complication on the face.
No sign-up, no advertising, no tracking, no analytics SDK. Check-ins power the widgets and the Apple Watch and nothing else.
Tap Today records your own check-ins. It does not tell you whether you should take a medication or another dose. Always follow the instructions provided with your medication and the advice of your healthcare professional. If you are unsure whether it is safe to take another dose, contact a healthcare professional.
Taking a daily medication takes about four seconds. Not being sure whether you took it can last the rest of the morning, and the ways out of it are all bad: remember harder, count what is left in the bottle, or guess.
If the action is that small, why is the doubt so large?
Put the answer where the question gets asked.
The Apple Watch matters here more than it looks like it should. Reaching for a phone to answer a four-second question is itself too much friction, so the wrist is the important surface, not the app.
Whether the same check-in is useful for things that are not medication. We have not decided.
The action takes seconds. The uncertainty shouldn’t take the day.
It started as a single yes or no. One dose, one switch, one answer. That was the whole app, and for a while it was enough.
It was not enough for long. People take more than one thing, and more than once a day, and a switch cannot say two of three. The check-in became a count, which is a small change in the interface and a large one underneath.
Everything after that has been the same move repeated: the Apple Watch app, the Lock Screen widget, the Watch complication, a Siri shortcut. None of them added a feature. Each one moved the answer closer to the moment the question actually gets asked.
One less thing to wonder about.
