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How to add COVID-19 digital certificate to the Services NSW app

  • Writer: The Beagle
    The Beagle
  • Oct 15, 2021
  • 2 min read

Welcome to the age of having to have a Smart Phone and all the Apps that link to MyGov, Service NSW and Medicare. With each passing day it is becoming more an more difficult for those without Smart Phones to wade their way through all the new rules and regulations and actually prove who they are. The latest requirement above checking in is to provide evidence that you have been vaccinated. There are many places now that have, by law, a requirement to apply No Vaccination Equals No Entry. There are ways you can do it with paper certificates but that is cumbersome and more painful that embracing a Smart Phone and getting on board with the 21st Centaury that is rapidly moving ahead and leaving many behind. So ... if you have a Smart Phone and access to the internet from it you have achieved Step One. How to add COVID-19 digital certificate to the Services NSW app 1. You'll first need a MyServiceNSW Account and the latest version of the Service NSW app. (go to your app shop, find the App and then UPGRADE)

Once you have the MyServiceNSW Account sorted out and the Service NSW app on your phone 2. You can then add your COVID-19 digital certificate using either the Express Plus Medicare app or your Medicare online account through myGov.

If you're using the Express Plus Medicare app: (make sure you have the LATEST Version of the Service NSW app otherwise this won't work)


  1. Open the Express Plus Medicare app.

  2. Select 'Proof of vaccinations' from Services.

  3. Select 'View history'.

  4. You will see a screen that has your name and then two green rectangular button that say 'View COVID-19 digital certificate' and 'Share with Check In app'

  5. Select the 'Share with check in app' button

  6. Select the 'Service NSW' button and follow the prompts.

  7. THEN Log in to your Service NSW app and follow the prompts to add your certificate to your profile.


If you're using your Medicare online account through myGov:


  1. Sign in to your myGov account using a browser on your device.

  2. Select 'Medicare'.

  3. Select 'View proof' in Proof of vaccinations.

  4. Select 'View history'.

  5. Select your name.

  6. Select 'Share with check in app'.

  7. Select 'Service NSW' and follow the prompts.

  8. Log in to your Service NSW app and follow the prompts to add your certificate to your profile. By rights you should have suceeded in adding the Certificate - you will find it on you ServicesNSW app at the top of the page right next to your Drivers Licence - just swipe your phone from Right to Left if you can't see it.



 
 

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