Use Reminders on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

With the Reminders app on iOS 13 or later and iPadOS, y'all tin create reminders with subtasks and attachments, and set alerts based on time and location.

  • Before you brainstorm
  • Create a reminder
  • Edit a reminder
  • Get a reminder while messaging someone
  • Create subtasks
  • Consummate a reminder
  • Add together a reminder with Siri
  • Add a reminder from another app
  • Acquire more

Before you lot begin

  • Gear up up iCloud to continue your reminders updated across all of your devices. Open the Settings app, then tap [your name] > iCloud and turn on Reminders. Inside the Reminders app, you'll come across all of your reminders on all of your Apple devices that are signed in to the aforementioned Apple ID.
  • Find out more about upgrading your iCloud reminders after y'all've updated to iOS thirteen or afterward or 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 also add reminders to your nearly important to-do lists from the Reminders widget on your Home Screen.

Set a due date

Tap the Date and Time button to set a due date for the reminder. Choose from Today, Tomorrow or This Weekend, or tap Engagement & Time to set up your own solar day and time.

If you lot set a due appointment for a reminder simply don't assign it a time, the notification will appear at 9.00 a.g. by default. To alter when all-mean solar day reminder notifications appear, open the Settings app, so tap Reminders. Tap the time below All-Twenty-four hour period Reminders, then cull a different time.

Add together a location

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

To receive location-based reminders, make sure Location Services is turned on. Open up the Settings app, and then tap Privacy > Location Services and turn on Location Services.

Add a tag

Tap the Tag button  to add a tag. Tags allow you quickly and automatically organise reminders based on keywords. Find out more near using tags to organise your reminders.

Flag a reminder

Tap the Flag push button to mark a reminder as extra of import and make it appear in the Flagged smart list on the Reminders app main screen.

Add an attachment

Tap the Photos button to add together an attachment to the reminder. You lot can take a new photo, choose an prototype from your photo library or scan a certificate.

Edit a reminder

Tap the Edit Details push to add together even more than details and customisations to your reminder, such as notes, a URL and a priority. You can too change the reminder'south notification settings and modify the listing that it belongs to.

Get a reminder when you're messaging someone

  1. Tap a reminder so tap the Edit Details button.
  2. Turn on When Messaging.
  3. Tap Choose Person and so tap a name in your contacts.

An iPhone showing a Gardening Reminders list. Under a reminder to

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

Create subtasks

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

You can create subtasks in a few dissimilar ways:

  • Tap and hold a reminder, and so drag it onto some other reminder. The reminder that you dragged will go a subtask of the other reminder.
  • Swipe right on a reminder, and then tap Indent. The reminder will go a subtask of the reminder above it. To undo this, swipe right once again on the subtask and tap Outdent.
  • Tap a reminder and and then tap the Edit Details push button. Tap Subtasks > Add Reminder, then type your subtask. Repeat for as many subtasks as you lot'd like to create.

Consummate a reminder

To mark a reminder as completed, tap the empty circle next to information technology. To see your completed reminders, tap the More than button and then tap Bear witness 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 marker it as completed, swipe left on it, then tap Delete.

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

Add a reminder with Siri

Y'all tin can ask Siri to schedule a reminder for you on your iOS device or your Apple Watch.* Here are a few examples:

  • "Remind me to feed the dog every 24-hour interval at 7.30 a.m."
  • "Remind me to check the post when I get home."
  • "Remind me to go to the supermarket when I leave here."
  • "Remind me to phone call Tara tomorrow at iii.00 p.m."

Add your home and work addresses to your carte du jour in Contacts to allow Siri to assist you lot set location-based reminders. Open the Contacts app, then tap My Card. Tap Edit, add your piece of work or home address, then tap Done.

* Siri uses Location Services when your reminder needs to use your location. Siri availability, features and commands vary by linguistic communication, land and region. Notice out which Siri features are supported in which countries and regions.

Add a reminder from some other 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 y'all left off. Open the app that you want to come up back to and await for the Share button. And so tap the Reminders icon.

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