Cannot add emergency contact iOS 8 medical ID

Almost correct, IrishCowboy.

• Go into Contacts
• Select your person
• DO NOT go to Edit
• Scroll down to LINKED CONTACTS
• Select which iCloud contact you want to use (there are 4 listed for my husband)
• NOW you will see a message in blue that says: Use This Name For Unified Card
• Select that
• Close Contacts
• Go back to Health app
• Now, when you "add emergency contact" it will take you back to Contacts and you can select that person

There seems to be a bug that won't allow you to add emergency contacts when you do it through your own contact page.

If you do it though the Health app, you can add the emergency contact with no problem.

Please provide some additional detail; if you attempt to add the contact through the Health.app, it takes you to the contact book on the phone and you still have no way to add the contact. This is a bug.

It worked for me. I went to the Health app and tapped the Medical ID tab, then edit at the top right. Then I was able to add my wife as my emergency contact.

I certainly hope nobody ever needs to use it...

Curiously my wife, running the same iOS version and patch number on iPhone 5 was able to update all details via the Contacts page. On my iPhone 6 I could not add emergency contacts but could add blood group and a photo. The only way I could add contact numbers was via the health app for which I have no other use whatever.

The problem I am experiencing is the Health App will allow only certain Emergency Contacts to be added from my Contacts list. I can add my wife but not my son's contact. On my wife's phone I can add my son but not me. Is there a standard or format that the contact information must be in before the Medical ID will accept it in the Health App?

Using iphone 6 64GB

I, too, have the EXACT same problem as you. Just had my 6 Plus 64GB swapped out for a new phone two days ago and the new phone won't allow me to enter 'Emergency Contact.' My previous 6 Plus allowed me to do so with no problems.

Others in this thread said "go to the Health App" to enter the contact. That's what I've been doing! Where else could one enter it?

C'mon Apple, help us out here with this important feature!!

I am having the exact same issue!! It will let me add my dad as an emergency contact but not my mom. I have tried through the Health app and my contact page. So frustrating!! Apple please fix!!

I had the same problem on my wife's phone.

When I tried to choose certain contacts they were greyed out and were not selectable. What I found was that particular contact was linked back to her contact.

Go to your contacts, edit the contact you want, scroll to the bottom and make sure it is not linked back to you. If it is unlink it.

That fixed it for me. I have no idea how the contact go linked back to her.

Figured this out. In my case, it was Facebook linked contacts.

• Go into your Contacts
• Edit the person you want to add as an emergency contact.
• Scroll down to the bottom of the entry where it shows the "Linked Contacts" section.
• You may see a number of link sources, including iCloud, Facebook, Outlook or others.
• Assuming the contact info you want is in your iCloud contacts, tap on the entry labeled iCloud.
• Tap on "Use This Name for Unified Card"
• Go back into Health/Medical ID and you should now be able to select that contact successfully.

I was able to follow your instructions all the way down until the step "Use This Name for Unified Card" I do not have this message to be able to tap on it. Just like the other commenters, I was able to add my daughter but not my husband as an emergency contact. My husbands contact info is grayed out.

Solved the problem by deleting all linked contacts to my husband such as Facebook and Gmail. Once his links were deleted I was able to select his name from Apple's Health App. This is an obvious bug that Apple needs to fix for the next OS release.

I went through everyone's solutions for being able to add one contact, but not another. This was the only one that worked for me. Thanks!

This should be marked as the right answer

Thanks

This worked for me. Thank you!

I deleted the grayed-out Contact and replaced it. All fixed!