Fixing a mistaken entry

If you tap the wrong button or log a dose by accident, nothing is lost. Here is how to fix it.

Removing a logged dose

Go to the Pill Tracker tab and tap the day with the mistaken entry. Scroll to the Logged section and you'll see every dose recorded that day, in the order they happened.

Tap the logged entry you want to remove.
A dialog asks "Remove this entry?" with the medication name.
Tap Remove.

The entry disappears from the Logged section. If the dose was marked taken and you track inventory for that medication, the pill count goes back up by the dose amount, so your inventory stays accurate.

The now-unrecorded dose re-appears in the Scheduled section for that day, so you can mark it correctly (Taken at the actual time, Skip, or leave it as missed).

Correcting the time a dose was taken

DoseAlert doesn't have a direct "change the time" option, but it's easy to fix:

Remove the wrong entry (above).
Tap Taken on the newly-restored Scheduled entry.
In the "When was it taken?" dialog, tap the time field and set the correct time.
Tap Taken.

Undoing a Skip

Same process: find the entry in the day's Logged section, tap it, and tap Remove. It returns to the Scheduled section so you can tap Taken instead.

Clearing a "Not sure" marker

A Not sure entry is just another type of log. You can remove it the same way.

Inventory and mistakes

Deducting a pill from your inventory only happens on a Taken entry. Removing a Taken entry adds the pill back. Skipped and Not-sure entries don't touch inventory, so removing them has no effect on the count.

Note

Any inventory adjustment happens immediately and can't be undone automatically — but you can always manually edit the count on the medication's detail screen if things go out of sync.

What if I removed a dose by mistake?

Removing a logged dose cannot be undone — DoseAlert deletes the record permanently. Just tap Taken on the scheduled entry again with the correct time.

Duplicate logs

If you see the same dose logged more than once at the same time, that's a duplicate. Remove the extras in the Pill Tracker day view. DoseAlert v1.4.0 and newer automatically prevent duplicates, so once the list is clean, it should stay clean. See A dose shows up multiple times.