The onboarding tour, what each step does

When you first open MigraineMe, the app shows you around. This is normal and it only happens once. You do not need to "finish" anything important here. You can take your time, and you can skip parts you would rather come back to later.

This article explains, in plain language, what each screen is for. Nothing is broken if you tap something by accident. The app will simply move on.

These steps are the same on iPhone and Android, with a couple of small differences noted below.

Step 1: Welcome, before you sign in

1. On a brand new phone the first screen says Welcome to MigraineMe.
2. Tap Show me how it works.
3. A few short slides follow, each with a small picture. Tap Next to move forward, Back to look again, or Skip to jump ahead.
4. Then you sign in or create your account.

Step 2: How do you want to start?

After your first sign-in you see three cards:

• Take the tour (marked Recommended, about 5 minutes). Ten real screens, each explained in one card. It ends with connecting your wearable and setting up your profile. Tap Show me the app.
• Set up my profile (about 3 minutes). Skips the tour and goes straight to permissions, connections, data choices and the setup questions. Tap Answer a few questions.
• Go to the app (marked In an attack? This one). Skips everything for now and opens the migraine log straight away, so you can record the attack first and explore later. Tap Start now.

You can rerun any of this later from the Profile screen.

The rest of this article assumes you chose the tour.

Step 3: The guided tour

1. The app shows you its main screens one at a time, with a card on top that explains each one: Home, the Risk Model, the Log tab, Ask MigraineMe, Monitor, Diet, Insights, the Daily Check-In, AI Calibration and Community.
2. Read the card, then tap Next on the card.
3. The last card says And there's much more.

Nothing here is your real data. The tour uses pictures of the screens, so nothing is added to your records.

Step 4: Now let's set up your data

A short page lists what comes next: 1. Permissions, 2. Connect, 3. Configure and 4. AI Personalisation.

Step 5: Permission screens

The app needs to ask you for permission to use a few things on your phone. Each one is its own small screen with a clear button to allow it. If you would rather not grant a permission, tap Skip. You can always change your mind later in your phone's Settings app. If your phone has already granted a permission, that screen is skipped automatically.

You will be asked about:

1. Location. This lets MigraineMe see the weather where you are, which is a common migraine trigger. We only use city-level location, never your exact address.
2. Notifications. This lets the app remind you about your evening check-in.
3. Microphone. This is used for voice logging and to measure how loud it is around you, which some people find triggering.
4. Calendar. This lets the evening check-in offer events from your phone calendar so you can tag them as triggers or activities in one tap.

On iPhone you will also be asked about Speech recognition, which lets you talk instead of type when describing how you feel. On Android you will also see a Screen time screen (so the app can track how much screen use your days involve) and a Battery screen (so Android does not stop MigraineMe collecting data in the background).

If your phone shows its own pop-up at the same time, tap Allow or OK on that one as well. That pop-up comes from your phone, not from us.

Step 6: Connect Apple Health (iPhone) or Health Connect (Android)

1. You will see the Connections screen with a card for Apple Health (or Health Connect on Android).
2. Tap the Connect button on that card. If you would rather skip this for now, tap Skip on the small tour card.

There are separate help articles for each of these connections if you want to read about them later.

Step 7: Connect a wearable

1. The same Connections screen lists the wearables you can connect: WHOOP, Oura, Polar and Garmin.
2. Tap Connect on the one you own.
3. A web page will open. Sign in with your usual login for that brand.
4. After signing in, you come back to MigraineMe and the card shows that it is connected.

If you do not own any of these, that is fine. Tap Skip on the tour card. You can come back later from the Connections entry in the Settings drawer.

Step 8: Choose what to collect

1. This screen shows a list of things MigraineMe can track for you, like sleep, steps, heart rate, weather, and more.
2. Each line has a small switch on the right.
3. Slide a switch to the right (so it turns purple) to turn that one on.
4. Slide it to the left (so it turns grey) to turn it off.
5. When you have what you want, tap Done on the tour card.

You do not need to decide everything now. Leaving them on is fine. You can change any of these later from the Data and Notifications entry in the Settings drawer.

Step 9: AI setup

1. This is a longer set of questions about your migraines. There is a separate article called Filling in your AI profile that walks you through it.
2. You can answer everything, answer some questions and skip others, or skip the whole thing.
3. Each page has a small Skip Setup option.

The last page of the AI setup is where you pick your AI companions. If you skip it now, you can run the whole setup again later: open the Profile screen (gear icon, then Profile) and tap Redo Onboarding. The answers it produces live in Profile, under Your Migraine Profile, and quietly update as you log more.

Step 10: Your free trial begins

1. The very last screen says Enjoy 14 days on us.
2. This is your 14-day free trial. There is no card needed. There is no automatic charge.
3. Tap the Let's go button.

You will land on the Home tab, and the setup is over. Welcome to MigraineMe.