Vaccination Card for Wallet

Hello sandrafromtakoma park and welcome to Apple Support Communities. It appears you are having some difficulty adding a vaccination card to the Wallet app.

If the camera is not working for this, try using the Code Scanner in the Control Center. If you do not see that as an option, go to Settings > Control Center to add it.

If this function does not work both with the camera and with the Code Scanner, reach out directly to Apple Support for additional options.

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Cheers.

The CDC system does not do validated QRcodes. This only works for private health systems or drugstores that provide a validation QR.

Apple won’t be able to help. Deloitte was paid $44 million for that system in 2020, and you’ll find it’s rather useless.

sandrafromtakoma park wrote:

THANX. So to advertise that the IOS version 15.1 supports uploading C-19 vaccination records to Wallet is bogus.

That is an incorrect statement. It took me less that 5 minutes to add my vaccination card to Apple Wallet and my health records to the health app. Why was it so easy for me? Because my health provider offered the verifiable QR codes so that I could scan the code and add the card to Apple Wallet.

This is not an Apple thing. It is up to your medical/health provider to make the codes available.

The “distant hospital” and local pharmacy should have sent you an electronic confirmation of your vaccination. My “distant hospital” certainly did. They also sent it to my state vaccine registry and to my health care provider’s EMR system, and I can get a verifiable vaccination record from all of those locations, as well as the Docket app that many states support. It’s unfortunate that none of your providers have moved into the third millennium, but most people’s have. Just take a photo of your paper record and show it on your phone when you need it.

Lawrence. Stop being such an apple fan boy. You are missing the point that the CDC database has the actual verified records but does not integrate. It provides a secure QR code and secure reference ID. What I’m not sure on is if they actually provided a secure api to apple and google to issue this ID for verification. So this could be the fault of Apple or the CDC app or both. Certainly not the fault of a local vaccination provider or the person just trying to get an answer. I got my first shots from the state, and those records went straight to the CDC in a current Millenium fashion. It was cloud-amazing. Not to me. Me? I got a handwritten, easily forged card that they just hand wrote the third shot onto (and logged direct with the CDC). Stop offering up useless banter like my post back to you. It’s a waste of everyone’s time.

No, it has nothing to do with Apple, who has published a negotiated specification for verifiable vaccination records (the same one implemented by Google). Any agency who wants to provide a verifiable record can do so, and many medical providers and state agencies do. The facility where I got my vaccinations directly provided a link to a verifiable record within seconds of receiving my shots, and that was in March. So there has been plenty of time for the CDC and anyone else to implement it. But it is essential that the record be verifiable, as you have pointed out about easily forged cards.