Employ Reminders on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect

With the Reminders app on iOS 13 or later and iPadOS, you lot can create reminders with subtasks and attachments, and ready alerts based on time and location.

  • Before you begin
  • Create a reminder
  • Edit a reminder
  • Get a reminder while messaging someone
  • Create subtasks
  • Complete a reminder
  • Add a reminder with Siri
  • Add a reminder from some other app
  • Learn more

Before you begin

  • Ready up iCloud to keep your reminders updated across all your devices. Open the Settings app, then tap [your name] > iCloud and turn on Reminders. Inside the Reminders app, you'll meet all of your reminders on all of your Apple devices that are signed in to the same Apple tree ID.
  • Acquire more most upgrading your iCloud reminders afterward y'all update to iOS xiii or later and iPadOS.

Create a reminder

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

Yous tin likewise add reminders to your most of import to-practice lists from the Reminders widget on your Home Screen.

Set a due engagement

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

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

Add a location

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

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

Add together a tag

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

Flag a reminder

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

Add an attachment

Tap the Photos button to add an attachment to the reminder. You can take a new photograph, cull an epitome from your photo library, or browse a document.

Edit a reminder

Tap the Edit Details button to add even more details and customizations to your reminder, such as notes, a URL, and a priority. You tin can also modify the reminder'southward notification settings and change the listing that it belongs to.

Become a reminder while messaging someone

  1. Tap a reminder, then tap the Edit Details button.
  2. Plough on When Messaging.
  3. Tap Choose Person, then tap a proper noun 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 side by side time yous chat with this person in Letters, a Reminders notification appears.

Create subtasks

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

You tin can create subtasks in a few different ways:

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

Complete a reminder

To mark a reminder as completed, tap the empty circle next to it. To run across your completed reminders, tap the More 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 marking it every bit 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 together a reminder with Siri

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

  • "Remind me to feed the dog every mean solar day at vii:30 a.k."
  • "Remind me when I become dwelling to cheque the mail."
  • "Remind me when I leave here to stop past the grocery shop."
  • "Remind me tomorrow at iii:00 p.m. to telephone call Tara."

Add your domicile and piece of work addresses to your card in Contacts to allow Siri to assist you set location-based reminders. Open up the Contacts app, and so tap My Card. Tap Edit, add your work or domicile address, then tap Done.

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

Add together 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 yous left off. Open the app that y'all want to come back to, and look for the Share button. Then tap the Reminders icon.

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