When you first open the Reminders app, you’ll see a grid at the top for Today, Scheduled, All, and Flagged. At-a-glance tracking of all your reminders It won’t take long to master all the features below, and once you do, you may find the once-neglected app is suddenly one of the most-used apps on your phone. It doesn’t even take that long to make a reminder anymore because Apple lets you enter them with natural language commands instead of fiddling with multiple fields.īetter yet, since you can use the same data between the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, there’s no need to buy separate versions for each app as you might with a third-party alternative. You can make groups with multiple lists, you can set morning notifications that give you a rundown of what you have to do for the day, and you can add checklists to reminders.
With iOS 13, though, Reminders should rank among the new operating system’s standout features. It was good for casual use, but in a professional setting, you’d have been better off sticking with a third-party app like Things 3.
Apple’s Reminders app used to be a joke, and if you found yourself using it, it was probably because you’d asked Siri to remind you about something or, well, you didn’t know any better.
