Across your Apple devices

CareHaven does not stay locked inside one app icon. It meets you where your hands already are — on the Lock Screen during a seizure, on your wrist while you are holding your person, in the car with Siri, and on the other devices you already use.

Everything here works with the tools Apple built into your iPhone. You do not set up accounts or wire anything together. The pieces that matter most show up on their own when the moment calls for them.

This page is a tour. Each item links to a fuller walkthrough where one exists.

The seizure timer on your Lock Screen

Available

When you start the seizure timer, the count appears right on your Lock Screen as a Live Activity — and on the Dynamic Island if your iPhone has one. You can glance at the elapsed time without unlocking the phone.

This matters in a real seizure. You may need to swipe over to dial for help or photograph what is happening. The timer keeps running on the Lock Screen the whole time, so you never lose the count.

The card turns a coral tint when the timer crosses five minutes — the point where current guidance is to call for emergency help, since after that a seizure is less likely to stop on its own. You see that warning whether the phone is in your hand or face-up on the table.

See Walkthrough: Log a seizure with the timer. For what to watch for during and after, see Medical.

Apple Watch

Available

The Watch app is for the moments your hands are busy — feeding, holding your person, driving. It carries a few simple pages:

• Now — a glance at what the iPhone last sent over: the last feeding, the latest mood, today's counts, and the next appointment.
• Quick Log — one tap to log a feeding, a regulation check-in, or a quick note. Every successful log gives you a small buzz so you can tap without looking and still feel that it landed.
• Schedule — the next upcoming appointment with a countdown.

You can also dictate a note with your voice straight from your wrist. If the iPhone is out of range, your taps queue up on the Watch and sync the moment the two reconnect, so nothing is lost.

See Walkthrough: Using the Apple Watch app.

CarPlay, through Siri

Available

In the car, CareHaven works hands-free through Siri. You keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel, and just say what you need:

• "Hey Siri, log a feeding in CareHaven"
• "Hey Siri, log a meltdown in CareHaven"
• "Hey Siri, quick note in CareHaven: she napped the whole drive"
• "Hey Siri, what's next in CareHaven"
• "Hey Siri, ask CareHaven what helps with sensory overload"

Siri speaks the result back to you and logs against the person you have open in the app. Behaviors often happen in the car — a stressful transition, sensory overload from the trip, friction between siblings — and this lets you capture the moment without stopping.

The first time you use a phrase, Siri may ask you to unlock the phone once to confirm. After that it runs entirely in audio.

Siri and Shortcuts

Available

The same voice commands work anywhere, not just in the car. You can ask Siri to log a feeding, a behavior, a mood, a fall, or a quick note, to read you what's next on the schedule, or to ask CareHaven a question — all without opening the app.

Because these are built as Shortcuts, you can also fold them into your own routines and automations on the iPhone.

Spotlight search

Available

Your CareHaven records show up in your iPhone's own search. Swipe down on the Home Screen, type a name, a phrase, or a word from one of your notes, and matching items appear right alongside your apps and contacts. Tap one and it opens straight to the right place in CareHaven.

Some things are kept out of Spotlight on purpose. Sensitive plans — like your crisis plans and your Letter of Intent — never surface in the phone's system search, and even for the items that do, the phone shows only a title, a person, and a date. The note bodies, the clinical detail, and the step-by-step text stay inside the app, where a glance over your shoulder on a shared device can't read them.

For searching inside the app itself, see Search & Ask CareHaven.

Translation

Available

A handoff brief or a doctor-visit recap can be translated on the spot using Apple's built-in Translation. If the person stepping in for you — a sitter, a relief caregiver, a school aide — reads another language, you can hand them the same brief in their own words without retyping anything.

See Sharing & reports.

Image Playground

Available

When you build a cue card, CareHaven can generate a simple, AAC-style illustration for it using Apple's Image Playground, right on your device. It gives a picture-based cue a clear, friendly image without you having to find or draw one.

See Advocacy & goals.

Genmoji

Available

Anywhere you type in CareHaven, you can use the system keyboard's Genmoji to drop in a custom emoji — a small, human touch for a note or a label.

StandBy widgets

Available

Set your iPhone on its side in a charger and CareHaven can show your day at a glance from across the room. The Day Shape view gives you a quiet read on how the day is going — what's been eaten, the mood trend, what's coming up — and it includes a quick-note button you can tap right from StandBy to jot a quick note or log without picking the phone up. A wall-display view turns the phone into an ambient screen. It is a calm way for the next caregiver to catch up without having to ask.

See The Home screen (Day Shape).

The Emergency Lock Screen widget

Available

You can place a small Emergency widget on your iPhone's Lock Screen that shows the most critical facts about your person — name, age, a primary diagnosis, an allergy — so that a paramedic, a school nurse, or anyone holding the phone in an emergency sees what matters first, without unlocking it.

It comes in three shapes, from a fuller rectangular card down to a single glyph or one line above the clock. It shows only those few first-responder details on purpose; the rest of the record stays private inside the app.

See Walkthrough: Set up the Emergency Lock Screen widget.

The handoff App Clip, nearby handoff

Available

When you hand off to a sitter who does not have CareHaven, you can pass a read-only mini-handoff packet to their nearby iPhone — they do not have to install anything. The briefing opens in the App Clip on their own phone, so they get a clean copy of the key details, and nothing of yours is left behind on it.

See Walkthrough: Create a handoff for a sitter.

Apple Health

Available

CareHaven works with Apple Health for vitals and sleep. The vitals you log can sync over, and CareHaven can read sleep, cycle, and vitals back in.

There is one firm rule: this only happens for the profile you have marked as yourself — the phone's owner. A child's or care-recipient's profile never touches Apple Health. You also approve each kind of data separately when the phone asks.

On your own profile, a read-only Health Signals readout shows the deeper numbers Apple Health already holds for you — last night's sleep stages, heart rate variability, resting heart rate, blood oxygen, breathing rate, and your cycle day if you track it — with one honest, plain-language note. CareHaven keeps no copy of any of it; the data stays on your phone.

For how CareHaven protects everything else, see Privacy & security (in depth).

What's still coming

A few Apple-ecosystem touches are built or planned as fast-follows rather than shipping in today's beta:

• A Lock Screen and Control Center shortcut, plus a Siri "I need a minute" command, for the in-the-moment breathing and grounding reset. The reset itself works inside the app today. Coming soon
• Putting your crisis plans onto the Lock Screen, the Dynamic Island, the Watch, and Siri. Today, only the seizure timer reaches the Lock Screen. Coming soon

To see how every feature fits together, browse the Full feature catalog. For what landed in the latest build, see What's new.