[Diabetes-Talk] Getting data from the Dexcom G6 trend graph on iPhone

[gmelconian619 at gmail.com]

Another waway, you could do is to launche the be my eyes AI, and grab the
trend graph , share it to be my eyes ai and that way the be my eyes Ai will
summarize the trend graph and other  graphs to you.  As well you can ask the
AI, questions  to the trends on the graph or any other  chart that  voice
over cant read within the dexcom app . I don't know how  well it works on
apple devices  with voice over, but it works really well on android devices
with talkback, like my galaxy s22, that I am running dexcom  and omni pod 5
on.  I use that  be my eye Ai app to get all kinds  of charts, trend  graphs
as well as trends  in either direction whether I am trending high or low,
which makes  things a bit more accessible in my view to use .  

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Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] Getting data from the Dexcom G6 trend graph on
iPhone


Hi all,

Perhaps some already know of this, or perhaps there is a better way, but I
have found a way of getting some info from the trend  graph on my iPhone.

On the settings page of Dexcom, check the item called,  Use Apple health.

Somewhere I read that it takes about 3 hours for the data to go through to
the health app, so I waited  till the next day to go into the health app, as
I was only interested in my readings through the night.

I cant remember whether  I had previously done any setting up of the health
app, but on the summary tab it showed, Blood Glucose, so I double tapped
that.   

On the following screen, you can select the period to display, day, week
month etc, and below that glucose ranges for that period will display.

If you select day, then the below display shows your glucose ranges for each
hour for the previous day.  

I found it very useful to know how high or low I went through the night,
even if it is in hourly blocks rather than 5 minutes.

The latest data seems to never be later than 3 hours prior to the current
time, so checking first thing in the morning  misses the last few hours.
That seems to be a strange decision by Dexcom or Apple, because the data is
on the same device, so no transfer delay?

Hope this helps,
Paul in Australia.





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