Apple to Allow Organ Donors to Sign Up on Health App

Apple to Allow Organ Donors to Sign Up on Health App
People shop at Apple's Flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York on Monday. Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Times
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If you haven’t signed up to be an organ donor at the DMV, you will still be able to do so—on your iPhone.

Apple will let iPhone users sign up to be organ, eye, and tissue donors through its health app when it releases iOS 10 in the fall, the company announced on July 5. 

For the new feature, the tech giant is partnering with Donate Life America, a nonprofit committed to increasing donation rates.

The partnership attempts to help the 120,000 Americans currently waiting for a life-saving transplant. Every 10 minutes another person is added to the national transplant waiting list.

“On average, one person dies every hour in the United States waiting for an organ transplant because the demand for lifesaving transplants far exceeds the available supply of organs—and one donor can save as many as eight lives,” said David Fleming, president & CEO of Donate Life America in a statement.