Mistakes happen. You log a pint when you actually had a half. You tap + Another twice. You forget to log a beer for an hour and only notice it later. AlcoLog lets you fix any of those after the fact. This tutorial covers four edits: editing a drink during an active session, editing one from history, deleting a drink, and deleting a whole session.
# Step 1. Edit a drink during the active session
While a session is running, Home shows a row under the session chart with LAST DRINK: and the time, and Edit Drinks on the right. Tap that row. The Add Drink screen opens scrolled down to Session Drinks, the list of everything in this session, newest first. (The same list is at the bottom of the Add Drink screen whenever you open it with + Add Drink.)
Each drink in the list has a pencil and a red X. Tap the pencil to open Edit Drink. It is the same form as Add Drink, in the same three sections: type, style and brand under What are you drinking?; size, ABV, calories and cost under How much?; time and location under When & where?. Change any field and tap Save Changes. The session totals (units, calories, cost) recalculate immediately and the stats line on Home updates.
If you move a drink to before the session started, AlcoLog asks Move session start? and, if you tap Move Start, the session timer adjusts to match.
# Step 2. Edit a drink from history
Tap the History tab, scroll down to All Sessions, and tap the chevron on the session’s card to expand it. The drinks appear under Drinks Logged.
Each drink has a pencil (edit) and an X (delete). Tap the pencil to open the same Edit Drink form from Step 1. Edits made from history flow back into the session totals on the History screen, the trend graph, and the heatmap. They also feed AlcoScore the next time it recalculates.
Forgot a drink rather than got one wrong? On a finished session, Drinks Logged also has Add drink, which opens the Add Drink form for that session, and Meds, for a medication dose you missed. A dose can be timed from 2 hours before the session started until it ended, the same window in which doses show on a session.
# Step 3. Delete a single drink
If you logged a drink that didn’t actually happen (a mistaken double-tap, a phantom entry from a friend grabbing your phone), tap the red X next to it, either in Session Drinks during a live session or under Drinks Logged in History. There is no delete button inside the Edit Drink form itself.
A confirmation asks Delete Drink? and names the drink, for example Remove this Beer (UK Pint (568ml)) from the session? (from History it adds This cannot be undone.). Tap Delete to remove it. The drink disappears and the session totals shrink to match.
# Step 4. Delete an entire session
To remove a whole session, go to the History tab and find the session card in the All Sessions list (the header reminds you: Tap & Hold to delete). Long-press the card. A confirmation asks Delete this session?
Tap Delete Session to confirm, or Cancel to keep it. The session, every drink in it, and all derived data (units, calories, cost contributions) are removed from the trend graph, the monthly overview, and the heatmap. Sessions cannot be restored after deletion.
If the deleted session was your most recent one, the Last Session block on AlcoScore moves back to the session before it (or disappears if it was your only one). Your overall AlcoScore recalculates the next time you open that screen.
# Step 5. What recalculates
Edits and deletions cascade through the app:
- Session totals (units, calories, cost) update immediately
- Stats line on Home updates immediately during an active session
- Monthly overview updates the next time you visit History
- Trend graph redraws on next visit to History
- Calendar heatmap recolors on next visit
- AlcoScore recalculates on next visit to the AlcoScore screen
- Apple Health follows your changes: deleting a drink or a session removes its entries from Health, and editing a drink in a finished session rewrites them (entries written by older versions of AlcoLog have to be deleted inside the Health app)
That’s the whole edit and delete loop. Three places to do it (the Session Drinks list during a live session, the Drinks Logged list in History, and a long-press on the session card), one consistent edit form, one consistent confirmation pattern.
For a session you added after the fact with Add a Past Session, the same fixes are available on its overview before you save; see how to add a past session.
# What’s next
If you find yourself editing a lot, building your favorites list saves time by removing the type and size pickers from your usual drinks. Reading your drinking history covers what those edits look like in the longer view.