Apply Reminders on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect

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

  • Earlier 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 lot begin

  • Set up iCloud to keep your reminders updated across all your devices. Open up the Settings app, then tap [your name] > iCloud and turn on Reminders. Inside the Reminders app, yous'll see all of your reminders on all of your Apple devices that are signed in to the aforementioned Apple ID.
  • Learn more well-nigh upgrading your iCloud reminders after y'all update to iOS 13 or later 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 also add reminders to your most important to-do lists from the Reminders widget on your Home Screen.

Set up a due date

Tap the Appointment and Time button to fix a due appointment for the reminder. Cull from Today, Tomorrow, This Weekend, or tap Date & Fourth dimension to set your own day and time.

If you fix a due date for a reminder just don't assign a time, the notification appears past default at nine:00 AM. To change when all-day reminder notifications appear, open the Settings app, then tap Reminders. Tap the time below All-Day Reminders, then choose a different time.

Add a location

Tap the Location push button to assign a notification based on where y'all are. Select one of the options provided, or tap Custom to add your own location, choose whether you lot want to be notified when arriving or leaving, and set the perimeter of your reminder 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 a tag. Tags let you quickly and automatically organize reminders based on keywords. Larn more than about using tags to organize your reminders.

Flag a reminder

Tap the Flag button to mark a reminder as extra of import and make information technology 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. Y'all tin take a new photograph, choose an image from your photo library, or scan a certificate.

Edit a reminder

Tap the Edit Details button to add even more details and customizations to your reminder, such every bit notes, a URL, and a priority. Y'all can as well modify the reminder's notification settings and change the listing that information technology belongs to.

Go a reminder while messaging someone

  1. Tap a reminder, then tap the Edit Details button.
  2. Plough 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 next time y'all chat with this person in Letters, a Reminders notification appears.

Create subtasks

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

You can create subtasks in a few different ways:

  • Tap and concord a reminder, then drag information technology 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 one above information technology. To undo this, swipe correct once more on the subtask and tap Outdent.
  • Tap a reminder, then tap the Edit Details push button. Tap Subtasks > Add Reminder, and then type your subtask. Echo for as many subtasks as you'd like to create.

Consummate a reminder

To marker a reminder as completed, tap the empty circle adjacent to it. To see your completed reminders, tap the More push, 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 as completed, swipe left on it, then tap Delete.

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

Add a reminder with Siri

You can ask Siri to schedule a reminder for you lot on your iOS device or your Apple Picket.* Here are a few examples:

  • "Remind me to feed the canis familiaris every day at 7:30 a.one thousand."
  • "Remind me when I get home to check the postal service."
  • "Remind me when I leave here to stop by the grocery store."
  • "Remind me tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. to call Tara."

Add your home and work addresses to your card in Contacts to allow Siri to help you set location-based reminders. Open the Contacts app, then tap My Carte du jour. 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 past language, state, and region. Learn which Siri features are supported in which countries and regions.

Add a reminder from another app

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

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