Apply Reminders on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on

With the Reminders app on iOS thirteen or later and iPadOS, you tin create reminders with subtasks and attachments, and set alerts based on fourth dimension and location.

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  • Create a reminder
  • Edit a reminder
  • Become a reminder while messaging someone
  • Create subtasks
  • Complete a reminder
  • Add together a reminder with Siri
  • Add a reminder from some other app
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Before yous begin

  • Fix up iCloud to proceed your reminders updated across all your devices. Open the Settings app, then tap [your proper name] > iCloud and turn on Reminders. Inside the Reminders app, y'all'll meet all of your reminders on all of your Apple tree devices that are signed in to the same Apple tree ID.
  • Larn more than about upgrading your iCloud reminders after you update to iOS 13 or after and iPadOS.

Create a reminder

  1. Open up the Reminders app.
  2. Tap + New Reminder, then blazon your reminder.
    An iPhone showing the New Reminder screen, where you can add a title, notes, and other details to create a reminder.

You can besides add reminders to your almost important to-do lists from the Reminders widget on your Home Screen.

Set up a due date

Tap the Date and Time button to ready a due appointment for the reminder. Cull from Today, Tomorrow, This Weekend, or tap Date & Time to gear up your own mean solar day and time.

If you prepare a due date for a reminder but don't assign a fourth dimension, the notification appears by default at 9:00 AM. To modify when all-day reminder notifications appear, open the Settings app, then tap Reminders. Tap the time below All-Day Reminders, so choose a dissimilar time.

Add a location

Tap the Location push to assign a notification based on where you are. Select one of the options provided, or tap Custom to add together your own location, cull whether you lot want to be notified when arriving or leaving, and ready the perimeter of your reminder area.

To receive location-based reminders, make certain that Location Services is turned on. Open the Settings app, then tap Privacy > Location Services and plough on Location Services.

Add together a tag

Tap the Tag push button  to add a tag. Tags permit you quickly and automatically organize reminders based on keywords. Learn more about using tags to organize your reminders.

Flag a reminder

Tap the Flag button to marking a reminder as extra important and make it appear in the Flagged smart list on the Reminders app primary screen.

Add an attachment

Tap the Photos push to add an attachment to the reminder. Y'all can have a new photograph, choose an image from your photograph library, or scan a certificate.

Edit a reminder

Tap the Edit Details button to add together fifty-fifty more details and customizations to your reminder, such as notes, a URL, and a priority. You can likewise modify the reminder's notification settings and change the list that it belongs to.

Get a reminder while messaging someone

  1. Tap a reminder, then tap the Edit Details button.
  2. Turn on When Messaging.
  3. Tap Cull Person, then tap a name in your contacts.

An iPhone showing a Gardening Reminders list. Under a reminder to "Ask Jackelyn to borrow her truck," it shows Jackelyn's photo and "Messaging: Jackelyn Perra."

The adjacent fourth dimension you chat with this person in Messages, a Reminders notification appears.

Create subtasks

Every reminder that you create can have subtasks. For instance, a reminder to pack for a trip tin can include a list of things that you lot don't want to forget.

Yous can create subtasks in a few different ways:

  • Tap and concord a reminder, then drag it onto another reminder. The reminder that you dragged becomes a subtask of the other.
  • Swipe correct on a reminder, then tap Indent. The reminder becomes a subtask of the 1 to a higher place it. To undo this, swipe right once more on the subtask and tap Outdent.
  • Tap a reminder, so tap the Edit Details push. Tap Subtasks > Add Reminder, then type your subtask. Echo for as many subtasks as you lot'd like to create.

Complete a reminder

To mark a reminder as completed, tap the empty circumvolve next to it. To meet your completed reminders, tap the More than button, and then tap Show Completed.

An iPhone showing a Reminders list with the menu open after selecting the More button. Show Completed is highlighted in the menu.

To delete a reminder without marking it as completed, swipe left on it, and so tap Delete.

If you go a reminder notification on your Lock Screen, swipe left over the reminder. Tap View, then tap Mark as Completed.

Add a reminder with Siri

You tin ask Siri to schedule a reminder for yous on your iOS device or your Apple Watch.* Here are a few examples:

  • "Remind me to feed the domestic dog every mean solar day at vii:30 a.chiliad."
  • "Remind me when I get home to check the mail service."
  • "Remind me when I exit here to cease past the grocery store."
  • "Remind me tomorrow at 3:00 p.grand. to call Tara."

Add your domicile and work addresses to your carte du jour in Contacts to allow Siri to help you set location-based reminders. Open up the Contacts app, then tap My Bill of fare. Tap Edit, add your work or home accost, then tap Done.

* Siri uses Location Services when your reminder needs to employ your location. Siri availability, features, and commands vary by language, country, and region. Learn which Siri features are supported in which countries and regions.

Add together a reminder from another app

To remind yourself to go back to another app—for case, to revisit a website or a map location—add a link in your reminder to where you left off. Open up the app that you want to come back to, and wait for the Share button. Then tap the Reminders icon.

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