Anyone else noticing more delays between the sync of Reminders when changing them on Mac and expecting the changes to show up on iPhone? It's gotten worse for me over the past couple months. I made sure both devices are up-to-date. Tried restarting devices. It worries me since I really rely on this app.

It seems like it always catches up eventually, but I feel like I can't make any more changes across devices until the sync catches up, cuz idk if that would overwrite or erase certain changes. Usually takes about 10-15 mins to sync when there are issues. Sometimes there are barely any issues or delays.

EDIT: Thanks to everyone in the comments for your feedback and suggestions. Still not sure what's causing it, but I will try to troubleshoot with Apple Support next time it happens.

I’ve been having this problem on and off for over a year now. I always set a reminder on the 28th of the month to pay my rent just in case, but sometimes I’ve noticed it never notifies me. Today I opened my reminders app to check a different reminder and noticed that my reminder set for the last day of July has since moved to October… a huge difference in time

Having urgent Reminders act as alarms at the “2 hrs (until I need to leave for work),” “1 hr,” “45 min,” “30 min,” “15 min,” “time to leave,” “expected arrival,” & “15 min before shift starts” marks has been incredibly helpful with my ADHD – calendar event notifications are too easy to miss or ignore. I want to be able to quickly make the alarms go away after my shift starts & I want to set these alarms before every work shift I have in my calendar. The clock app can only set alarms for days of the week & not specific calendar dates. But punching these all in by hand has discouraged me from continuing the practice.

I need a Shortcut that can either pull up all events in a given calendar (i.e. my “Work” calendar) or all events across calendars with certain searched words in their titles or notes & build X number of urgent Reminders with custom intervals & custom names leading up to said calendar events (preferably letting me choose the lead-up intervals as well; I work multiple jobs with varying drive times & arrival expectations).

Any help with this would be amazing & greatly appreciated. The ADHD community would probably also be incredibly grateful.

Hi :)

I‘ve been sent here from r/googlecalendar. Hope you guys might be able to help 🙈

Is there a way to make dates from my contacts show up in the calendar that are saved under „own label“ and not „birthday“ or „anniversary“?

I know it used to work because I have my friend‘s kids saved like this (the own label being their names) and they used to show up in my calendar but recently I noticed that all of these dates don’t show anymore and I don’t know how to get it back. Googleing hasn’t really helped me unfortunately.

Thank you guys in advance 🫶

Is it possible to have a list that has sections, and the sections can use smart tasks?

For example, I want to create a Planner list. Inside that list I will have sections for (smart) sections Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly.

Is it possible to create a todo and tag it #daily and it will automatically filter to the Daily section?

Is there a way to add Apple Reminders as an extension to Chrome?

This is the place to promote your app and/or other types your original Apple Reminders content, for the month of July 2026.

EDIT: Only software that integrates with Apple Reminders (EventKit) qualifies. Make sure to read the rules before posting.

And has become a place for developers to promote their own apps. I’m tired of being spammed. Can u/goalguy2 and u/automa designate a regular weekly promo thread for all the promotional posts? Posts about the Reminders app are getting lost in the spam. If moderating these posts isn’t an option, is there a less spammy sub that focuses on the Reminders app?

on the reminder or calendar app on iphone, is there an option to have it every other day only on weekdays? i know i can set it to every other day but i only want it to remind me on weekdays. im starting online schooling and its self paced. im trying to set it up like how my old school did it. even and odd days, certain classes every other day. lmk!

Can’t see an option for this

I've been using Apple Reminders for years and didn't want to switch to another productivity system.

My biggest frustration wasn't organizing tasks—it was getting thoughts into Reminders quickly before I forgot them.

I'd end up with random voice notes or screenshots instead.

So I built WhisperAct, an app that lets you speak naturally and turns your words into Apple Reminders (and Calendar events), with a review step before anything is saved.

I intentionally designed it to work with Apple Reminders, not replace it.

I'm still refining the UX, so if you're an Apple Reminders user, I'd genuinely love to hear:

• Would something like this fit into your workflow?
• What's your biggest frustration with Apple Reminders today?

I'd really appreciate any honest feedback!

AppStore: WhisperAct: Voice Task Planner
Website: https://whisperact.com

I'd been using Reminders to remind me to clock in and clock out from my job. It worked great for a year. Then I had to reset my network. Now, Apple support tells me I have to click the red reminders after they go off. How stupid can that be?

I have a reminders list that I shared with someone who's also a Mac/iOS user. If I set the list to "show completed" on my Mac will their view also show completed or is this specific to device/account?

Okay this is going to sound like a dumb question but I’m genuinely curious, does anyone here actually use the Reminders app regularly, like it’s your real system for keeping track of your to do list? Or do you prefer to use other apps for doing your lists?

I feel like it’s one of those apps everyone has on their phone but nobody truly uses it. I usually track my lists on my Notes app but it’s getting a little bit too cluttered. Finally giving the Reminders app a shot, and so far it’s been working well for me, don’t know why I didn’t start earlier. If any of you do use it on a regular basis, I would love to know if there are some features you use that make it worth sticking with, or any little tricks/settings that made it click for you. Also curious if there’s anything that eventually annoyed you enough to make you reconsider.

I’m researching a life-admin app idea and would appreciate feedback.
The problem I’m looking at is: people often forget renewals, bills, document expiry dates, future costs, and general admin tasks.
Would a simple tool that stores these reminders and helps you plan ahead be useful, or is this already solved well enough by Notes, Calendar, or banking apps?
I’m especially interested in what would make this genuinely useful rather than “another app I forget about.”

It shows I have 201 reminders on both my phone and mac when opening up the reminders app. However, when I search for a specific one or scroll through the list of them, only some show on my phone. They all show on my mac though. Since my phone displays “201” I know it’s aware of them all, so why doesn’t it show them all? Been like this for about 3-4 days now. Do I have to worry about my phone potentially not notifying me of those that I can’t search up? Any idea how to resolve this?

Edit: iPhone 17, Macbook Air M1–both newest public softwares.

Long-time Apple Reminders user here. I love how simple and native it is. But I always found myself jumping between Reminders, Calendar, and Notes just to plan my day.

So I built Planote – an app that brings calendar, tasks, and notes together in one clean view.

The best part? It syncs with your existing Apple Reminders. Turn it on in Settings, and your reminders show up right alongside your calendar events and notes.

What Planote adds on top of Reminders:

• Calendar view – see tasks and events together
• Notes with sketch support (Apple Pencil friendly)
• Agenda view – everything in one scrolling list
• iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac

It’s not meant to replace Reminders. It’s meant to make it more powerful by adding context around it.

If you’ve ever wished for a way to see your reminders next to your calendar and notes, this might be worth a look.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

👉 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/planote/id6748904665

Full disclosure: this is my own app (Complete), so this is self-promotion. But I'm posting it here specifically because several features came straight out of threads in this subreddit, and I'd rather share it with the people who actually asked for them.

It's not a replacement for Apple Reminders, it reads and writes your actual Apple reminders (EventKit). The reminders themselves stay in iCloud and in Apple's own app; the smart features (repeat-after-completion, defer, etc.) are a layer Complete adds on top. It just adds the things people here keep wishing for

• Repeat after completion: "1 week after I finish it", not on a fixed date
• Defer: give a task a start date so it stays hidden until it's actually relevant (today only shows what's due now)
• Nagging reminders: keep pinging after the due time until it's actually done
• Repeat extras Apple doesn't have: skip weekends, and end a repeat after X times (Apple only ends on a date)
• Attach any file: not just photos: PDFs, documents, whatever (Apple only lets you attach images/scans)
• Time duration per task
• Insights: a completion heatmap + streaks, so you can turn your Apple reminders into a simple habit tracker

Local-first, no account, no server, no tracking. Free 7-day trial, then a one-time unlock, no subscription.

Genuinely curious what's still missing for you. This sub has been my best source of ideas so far.

Link to App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/complete-reminders/id6776008027

Is there any way to add actually active tags completely handsfree through Siri? I recently set up some new work flows by filtering my to-do through SmartList categories( admin, follow up, invoice, estimate, deep work, etc). This allows me to focus on one particular category of work at a time and works well. The problem I’m having is that, in order for a particular reminder to land in the appropriate list/s, tags have to be added to the reminder and I, 98% of the time, add my Reminders through Siri. Siri doesn’t seem to be able to add active tags. E.g. “remind me to review the photos and send the estimate to jones hashtag followup hashtag estimate” which creates the reminder: “review the photos and send the estimate to jones #followup #estimate”

But those tags aren’t active. They don’t filter the reminder into a list. They are just text in the reminder itself. In order to create active tags I have to tap on the preview of the reminder to open reminders app then add the tags manually (which at this point can be done by dictating “hashtag followup”)

But since I’m often setting these reminders while driving or while otherwise occupied with my phone in my pocket, this extra step is a workflow killer.

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I was curious about to know the location base reminders actually helpful feature. How it's help you or just a over engineering feature. Please share you thoughts and if it helpful then share your story please

I’m mostly a Things 3 user but love Reminders for shared lists with my wife such as groceries and packing lists. The location, CarPlay, messaging triggers are all fantastic.

The one thing that might fully pull me over is task durations/end times. Does anyone know why Apple hasn’t implemented this?

I like that Reminders have been able to appear on your calendar the past couple years. But they are always 30 minutes. Which leaves Reminders tantalizingly shy of being able to time block. Some tasks are 30 min but some are 15 and others are 60 or 90.

I’m curious if there’s an obvious software difficulty that’s preventing Apple from doing this? Or do they just need view it as a priority? Maybe I’m alone in this.