Why this is worth thinking about before it happens
A refrigerated medication is the most immediate risk in a longer outage, since spoiled medication isn't safe to give regardless of how urgently it's needed. Beyond that, a routine that depends entirely on a phone reminder still needs to run on memory if the phone dies.
What's worth having as a physical backup
- A printed copy of current medications and doses, kept somewhere accessible without power
- A cool bag and ice packs for short-term refrigerated medication storage during an outage
- A portable battery pack, kept charged, specifically for emergencies rather than everyday top-ups
Worth knowing: a closed fridge can generally keep contents cold enough for several hours during a power cut. It's worth knowing roughly how long a specific medication can safely go unrefrigerated, ahead of time, not mid-outage.
Why the record itself matters, not just the reminder
A missed reminder is recoverable. A record that's genuinely lost, because it only ever existed as a notification history on a dead phone, is a bigger problem. This is exactly the case for a record that doesn't depend on a live connection to exist.
Why this doesn't actually depend on the internet
Halo's data lives on the device itself and in your own iCloud, not on a server that needs to be reachable. A dead phone is a charging problem, once it's back on, the full history is exactly where it was, nothing lost in the meantime.