Running Omnipod 5 from your iPhone with a G7
Insulet made the Omnipod 5 iPhone app with Dexcom G7 support available to all US users, allowing full pump control from the phone.
This is a US update. From June 2025, people in the United States can run the whole of their Omnipod 5 insulin pump from an iPhone app while wearing a Dexcom G7 glucose sensor. The Omnipod 5 is a small tubeless pump (a pod) that sticks to your skin, and the G7 is a sensor that reads your glucose day and night. For UK readers, the pod and the G7 already work together here. What is newer in the US is doing everything from the phone itself, and nothing about your own setup changes today.
- The Omnipod 5 is a tubeless patch pump: the insulin sits in a small pod worn on the skin, with no tube and no separate handset needed if you use the app.
- A CGM (continuous glucose monitor) like the Dexcom G7 reads your glucose all the time, and the pod uses those readings to adjust your background insulin automatically.
- The US news is that the iPhone app now handles full control, including giving a mealtime dose, changing the pod and adjusting settings, all from the phone.
- A US release is not the same as UK availability: which phone-control features are cleared here can differ, and that is set by the regulator and manufacturer, not by you.
- You do not need to buy, switch or set anything up because of this, and what you can use in the UK is worked out with your diabetes team.
What the update actually is
In June 2025 Insulet, the company behind Omnipod 5, made its iPhone app available to all its US users, and that app now works with the Dexcom G7 sensor. In plain terms, US users can control the pump straight from an iPhone: giving a bolus (the dose of insulin for a meal or to bring a high down), changing the pod, and adjusting the pump’s settings, without a separate handheld controller.
This is a step in a direction the whole field has been moving: running medical devices from the phone that is already in your pocket. It is a convenience and design change rather than a new therapy. The pump does the same job it did before, and the difference is where you tap the buttons.
What it means if you are in the UK
The pairing at the heart of this, Omnipod 5 with the Dexcom G7, already exists in the UK, so this is not a brand new system arriving. The newer part is the full iPhone control, and that depends on separate UK clearance. Which phone-control features are approved here, and on which phones, can differ from the US, and that is decided by regulators and the manufacturer.
So there is nothing to do off the back of this. If you already use an Omnipod 5, keep using it exactly as you do now. If you are curious about running it from a phone rather than the handset, that is a fair thing to raise at your next appointment, because your team can tell you what is actually offered here.