Comments on: Reminders App: Very Much Worth Using in iOS 6

By: Tbanger9

Tbanger9 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:00:00 +0000

although the theory behind this app is great…. in practise it’s rubbish…. it goes off 5 or 6 kilometres from the place it’s supposed to go off… so when I’m driving home, instead of it reminding me when I get home, it goes off early while I’m driving, then I have to dismiss the message and re-remind myself when I finally get home… kinda defeats the purpose….!!

By: David Hixon

David Hixon — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:32:00 +0000

I like having a grocery list that my wife and I both can add to from our own devices but when she adds items I receive an email notification for each item. Any idea how to turn this off??

By: jq

jq — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:07:11 +0000

Does anyone know if it’s possible to set up push notifications for a shared Reminders list? My wife and I are sharing a list and I’d like to be notified when she adds something to this list. I had seen a review that showed an option to “Send an email when an item is added”, but that option doesn’t appear in my iCloud interface. Besides, email seems like overkill when a push notification system is available.

By: Derekleez

Derekleez — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:58:00 +0000

I really agree! I love adding items through Siri and adding items to other non-reminder lists. A combined example: “Add cheese doodles to my Grocery list” adds “cheese doodles” to my “Grocery List” list.

Another useful function is “show me my ___ list” or just “show me my reminders”.

By the way Thomas, I found this page after searching for your article on using Siri-raise-to-speak. That article had exactly what I wanted to know and a couple of the comments also added good info. Also, I appreciate your concise and informative writing style which is also easy to read. Thanks.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 02:27:53 +0000

Useful review, thanks. But with iOS 5, I had a list on my iPhone only, so its alarms didn’t appear on all my other devices, and my wife’s iPhone (we share an iCloud account). Now in iOS 6, my “iPhone-only” list now appears in iCloud and I can’t find a way to move it — or even create a new list — locally.

Any thoughts?
Thanks.

By: Stan Manley

Stan Manley — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:04:20 +0000

In reply to Thomas.

@Thomas
Yes, Location Services is activated. Also, it is specifically activated for Reminders. At a soccer field today Reminders offered my correct location as an alternative. It also offered my home location.

The 4S, now with iOS 6, is being used by my wife and has the same symptoms. Reminders offered multiple locations for her which could only have come from her Contacts but it did not show the people in her Contact book. Most of them have addresses associated with them.

Just FYI, I do get LTE here in Huntsville, AL.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:20:01 +0000

In reply to Stan Manley.

@Stan

Is Location Services activated on your iPhone 5? Is it active specifically for Reminders?
FYI Reminders doesn’t seem to ask for access to Contacts on my iPhone 4S, and I’m able to access the contacts list from inside of Reminders.

By: Stan Manley

Stan Manley — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:56:32 +0000

I can’t get Reminders to access my Contacts List so I can set a location alert. Using iOS 6 on an iPhone 5. Worked fine on my iPhone 4S with iOS 5.1.1. I’ve been through the various Settings repeatedly. Only clue is that Reminders is not shown as requesting access to my Contacts.

Is this a bug or have I overlooked something?

Any suggestions?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:06:43 +0000

In reply to Joie Shcmo.

If you’re viewing a single list you’ll see “reminders” across the top of the screen. From there you can head to a view of all of your lists by tapping the button in the top-left, or simply swipe between lists by swiping horizontally across the red text.

To actually add a task, tap on the + button while viewing a list. If you don’t have *any* lists at all, just create one from the screen where you see the search bar.

By: Joie Shcmo

Joie Shcmo — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:07:57 +0000

Can somebody PLEEEEEASE help me and explain how to ADD a reminder with the reminders app? I used it all the time in iOS 5 and now iOS 6 seems a step behind. I do not see how to get out of the screen that has the date show “0 Completed” or the Lists screen which only shows a search bar.

I am sooooooo frustrated!

Thanks

By: Erik Friis

Erik Friis — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:51:54 +0000

You still can’t pin the reminder to the lockscreen which is what I really wanted. Once you unlock once, it’s gone forever.

I also want to stuff like “Go to post office sometime today”, and the little badge with a number on it isn’t enough to remind me.