Share with Carer

Share daily health summaries with a carer, partner or family member through iCloud. Detailed journal records remain private unless you separately select Connections or episodes for that recipient.

What’s shared

Your carer sees the shared Day Rating, energy and sleep, explicit PEM and lower-rating indicators, conditions and any condition explainer text. A low Day Rating is not a confirmed flare.

Connections sharing is off for each recipient until reviewed. Choose the recorded connections and episodes to share; notes and photos need separate permission. New records are not included automatically. Cycle data and inferred correlation insights remain private.

Setting up

Open More › Sharing / Self-care › Share with Carer. Tap “Share with someone”. Enter any name or relationship that feels right to you, pick whether they’re a carer or partner, and tap “Create invitation.” Tended generates a private link. Send it via Messages, WhatsApp, email, or however you usually message them. They’ll need the free Supported app to accept.

Carer or partner?

Choose Carer for a family member, friend or healthcare helper, or Partner for someone you share daily life with. Both tiers receive the existing daily summary fields. Connections and episodes have separate recipient permissions, with independent notes and photo choices. Cycle data remains private. Changing tier revokes the previous invitation; create a new invitation and review the new recipient scope. Previous evidence permissions are not transferred.

How it works

Saving observations or changing the date assessment updates the shared daily summary. Each selected connection or episode can also receive later updates within its saved recipient scope. Tended retains pending delivery when offline and retries during normal use. Supported displays verified current summaries; estimated times, reported outcomes and unavailable sources remain clearly identified.

Sharing with more than one person

You can invite as many people as you’d like. Tap “Share with someone else” on the carer sharing screen to add another. Each person gets their own private invitation and their own connection to your data — revoking one doesn’t affect the others, and the people you’re sharing with can’t see each other’s names or activity.

If you set up sharing earlier

If you set up sharing before per-carer invitations existed, you’ll see a “Legacy share” banner at the top of the carer sharing screen. Your existing share keeps working — your carer won’t notice anything change. Tap “Move to per-carer sharing” to send a new invitation to the same person; their name is pre-filled.

Quick Needs broadcasts

Once you’ve set up sharing, you can also send single-tap signals to your carer — “I need quiet,” “I need water,” “I need help.” Configure the list in More › Sharing / Self-care › Quick Needs and send from the timeline, Apple Watch, or Siri. See the Quick Needs help topic.

Stopping sharing

Open the carer's detail and choose Stop sharing with their name, or revoke the legacy share from its banner. To withdraw only recorded evidence, open that recipient's Connections settings and turn sharing off. A pending update remains visible until delivery is acknowledged. Access changes depend on iCloud delivery and the recipient refreshing Supported. Previously exported or imported copies cannot be removed remotely.

If the saved Connections permissions cannot be read, no new detailed evidence is sent. You can still stop the underlying carer connection. Reset Connections permissions retains a private recovery copy and withdraws the known recipients before new permissions can be reviewed. Permissions saved by a newer app version require an update instead of a reset.