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Share a lab report PDF for a clinic visit from your phone

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A clinic desk is a bad place to scroll a camera roll. When you share a lab report PDF from Blood Snap, you send one named file: the report you scanned, with the title you saved and the date and time of the share in the file name. The rest of the vault stays on the phone.

The PDF is a copy of paper you photographed. It is not a result Blood Snap measured, and it is not a signed document from the laboratory. Ask the clinic whether a phone PDF is accepted before you rely on it as the only copy in the room.

Share one report, not the whole vault

  1. Open More Health → Documents.
  2. Open the report you want the clinician to see. Check every page in the preview.
  3. Tap Share PDF.
  4. Pick Mail, Files, Messages, or another app on the system share sheet.
  5. Confirm the recipient and send. Stop there. Other documents are not included.

If the report is not in the app yet, scan it first. Photograph the report into the phone vault, name it, then come back to share. The scan flow itself is in scan and save medical documents.

The file name carries the title and the time

Each share builds a file name from the document title plus the date and time you tapped share. A document titled "Blood test" shared at 14:05:09 on 2 November 2026 is saved as Blood test 2026-11-02 14-05-09.pdf. Share it again later and the new file gets a new time, so the second send does not overwrite the first.

That is why the title matters before the visit. "Lipid panel Dr Khan" is obvious in an inbox. "Doc" is not. Rename the document in the vault if the title is vague, then share. Folders and tags do not appear in the file name. The title does.

Check the PDF before it leaves the phone

  • The preview shows the pages you meant, in order, and the edges are readable.
  • The title is something the clinic will recognize without calling you back.
  • You are sending this report only, to the person or address you intend.
  • You still have the paper, or you know this PDF is the copy you are willing to hand over.

A shared file can be forwarded by whoever receives it. Blood Snap cannot pull it back from email or a chat. Share the report you are comfortable showing at that visit.

Until you tap Share PDF, the scan stays put

Scanned documents are stored in the app and are not uploaded. They are not sent to Groq, not included in cloud sync, and excluded from Android Auto Backup and iPhone and iPad device backups. Share PDF is the step that copies one file out, through the share sheet, to a place you choose. Details of that boundary are in how scanned medical documents stay on the device.

Because backups skip the vault, a new phone will not restore these PDFs by itself. The file you shared to Files, email, or a drive you control is the copy that can travel with you.

What to bring beside the PDF

A lab PDF answers "what did the paper say." Home blood pressure and blood sugar still live in the diary. If the visit is about treatment you take every day, the medicine list and the adherence card on Home show taken and missed doses next to those readings. The PDF does not replace that log, and the log does not replace the laboratory report.

The shared PDF is your scan

Blood Snap does not sign, stamp, or certify the file. It does not contact the lab, and it does not decide whether a value on the page needs action. Your clinician reads the report. The app only holds the copy you scanned and sends it when you ask.


Send one lab report PDF from your phone. Share PDF names the file with your title and the date and time, and leaves every other scan on the device. The file is a copy of paper you photographed. Not a medical device.

Educational information with public guideline citations. Not medical advice and not a diagnosis. Blood Snap is a personal wellness diary — not a medical device, blood pressure machine, glucometer, or CGM. Always follow your clinician's advice.

Questions about this guide

Open More Health, then Documents, open the report, and tap Share PDF. The phone's share sheet sends that PDF to Mail, Files, Messages, or another app you pick. Sharing is the only way a scanned document leaves Blood Snap.

Log the numbers you just read about.

Blood Snap is a free diary for blood pressure, blood sugar, and weight — not a diagnosis. Charts and PDF export included.