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Five minutes now saves fumbling later:

1. Add the Log a migraine widget to your Lock Screen, or the control to Control Center.
2. If your iPhone has an Action Button, set it to Aura (see below).
3. Add your usual medicines in Settings › Your medicines, so they’re one tap away during an attack.
4. Say “Hey Siri, I have a migraine in Aura” once, so you know it works.
5. If weather affects you, tell Aura in Settings › Weather. If not, leave it off.

No account, ever. Aura works completely offline. The only time it uses the internet is for an optional pressure lookup through Apple Weather, if you’ve said weather affects you.

Aura is for iPhone, and needs iOS 26 or later. The Action Button and Dynamic Island features only appear on iPhones that have them — on other models, the Lock Screen widget, Control Center and Siri do the same job. Aura isn’t available for iPad, Mac, Apple Watch or Android.

Whatever you can reach without looking. One press starts the clock from the Lock Screen widget, Control Center, the Action Button, Siri, or the big I have a migraine button in the app. Nothing else is asked — you can add details later, or never.

Tap Undo on the Now screen — it’s there for twelve seconds after you end an attack. After that, open the attack in History and correct its end time.

Yes. In the History tab, tap + and set when it started and ended. Every record, including its times, can be edited later.

Aura counts both, separately, the way headache specialists do. Every attack counts as a headache day. Only attacks you mark as Migraine under “What was it” count toward migraine days. If you’re not sure, choose Not sure — your report shows both numbers, so your neurologist can read them differently.

Yes. In Settings › Attack mode, choose During an attack (the default), Always on if light is a problem most days, or Only when I ask to switch it with the moon button. Extra dimming goes below the iPhone’s own minimum brightness, in Aura only.

Start with “Hey Siri”, then any of these:

You’ll also find these actions in the Shortcuts app, to build your own.

Open Aura once after installing it, so iOS registers its phrases, and make sure the phrase includes “Aura”. Check that Siri is allowed to use the app in iOS Settings › Apps › Aura › Siri. If you use Type to Siri, the same phrases work typed.

Touch and hold your Lock Screen, tap Customize, then Lock Screen. Tap the widget area below the clock, find Aura and choose Log a migraine. On the Home Screen, touch and hold an empty area, tap Edit › Add Widget and search for Aura.

Swipe down from the top-right corner to open Control Center, tap + at the top left, then Add a Control. Search for Aura and choose Log a migraine. One press starts an attack; the next ends it.

Open iOS Settings › Action Button, swipe to Controls, tap Choose a Control and pick Aura’s Log a migraine. From then on, pressing and holding the button starts or ends an attack — no screen needed.

Check iOS Settings › Apps › Aura and make sure Live Activities is on. If it still doesn’t appear, check that Live Activities are allowed while locked in Settings › Face ID & Passcode (or Touch ID & Passcode), under Allow Access When Locked.

In Aura, open Settings (the ≡ button on the Now tab) and go to Apple Health. Turn on Write attacks to Health to save each attack as a Headache entry, and optionally Read sleep data for comparisons. iOS will ask for permission the first time.

iOS holds that permission, so Aura can’t change it for you. In the Health app, tap your profile picture, then Privacy › Apps › Aura, and allow Aura to write Headache.

Three things and nothing else: how long you slept, menstrual days (only if you turn on cycle comparisons), and the Headache entries Aura itself wrote, so your record survives a reinstall. Everything is compared on your iPhone and nothing is uploaded.

Open the Report tab and choose a window — 30 days, 3 or 6 months, a year, or exact dates. You can add a name for the top of the page, tap Look at it first to preview, then Build the PDF and send, save or print it. It includes a summary, a month-by-month table, medication days against the ICHD-3 thresholds, the full attack log and a note explaining how each number was produced.

In the Report tab, under “Or the raw data”, export a CSV with every field of every attack. It opens in Numbers, Excel or Google Sheets. Exporting is free and always will be.

Aura counts the days each month you took an acute medicine, by class, against the ICHD-3 thresholds: 10 days for triptans, ergots, opioids and combination painkillers, and 15 days for simple painkillers and anti-inflammatories. Several classes together on 10 or more days can count too. It’s information for a conversation with your doctor — never a reason to change treatment on your own.

Yes. Export a CSV from your old app (most trackers have it somewhere in their settings), then in Aura open Settings › Bring a diary in from another app. Aura shows what it found before saving anything, and skips duplicates. If no rows are found, export dates in ISO format, like 2026-09-12 14:30.

In Settings › Weather, turn on I think weather affects me, then Record pressure with each attack. The next time you log, iOS asks for location permission. Aura stores the pressure reading, never your location.

A reading needs location permission and an internet connection at the moment you log. Check iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services › Aura is set to While Using the App. Attacks logged offline, or imported from another app, won’t have one.

If you’ve said weather affects you, turn on Pressure drop alerts in Settings › Notifications. It’s off by default: a forecast isn’t a prediction of your attack, and a daily weather warning is its own kind of burden.

Set up the new iPhone from an iCloud or computer backup of the old one (or with Quick Start), and Aura’s diary comes with it. Aura doesn’t sync on its own, so without a backup there’s no copy anywhere else — export a CSV first to be safe.

No. Aura has no account, no server and no analytics, so your diary never reaches us. If you email us a report, only then do we see what you chose to send. Read the privacy policy.

Delete one attack by swiping it in History, or everything with Settings › Erase everything — which also removes the entries Aura wrote to Apple Health. Step-by-step guide.

Aura is a diary, not a medical device, and can’t advise you. It will point out when your record crosses a published threshold, as something worth raising at your next appointment.