If you are new to iOS or have never noticed the possibility of adding reminders, you may want to know how to do it. There are several applications with which to manage these types of notices, some more complete than others. However, the installation of these is not advisable in most cases unless you want added functions or a very complete agenda management. Natively, reminders can be set very easily.
Use Siri to add reminders
Apple‘s virtual assistant is in everything, including your reminders. Using it is probably the most comfortable way to create reminders, since you can do it in less than 5 seconds and simply using your voice. If you have never used Siri for this, you should know which command to use. It does not have much loss and in fact it works with several sentences, although simply saying “Add a reminder” will help you so that the assistant asks you for more information such as the date or the reason for it.
You can also add a one-time reminder saying something like “Add a reminder for tomorrow at 8 with meeting subject.” Remember that you can invoke Siri through the home button on iPhone 8 and earlier and from the side lock button on iPhone X and later. If you also have an iPhone 6s or later, you can do it using the voice command “Hey Siri”.
IOS Reminders App
The way to manage the reminders on an iPhone is done through an app with the same name. Even those added through Siri are inserted into this app. It comes natively installed, although it is one that can be uninstalled if you wish. If you had previously uninstalled it, you can find it again in the App Store and download it free of charge, as is normal.
In iOS 13 and later we find a redesigned app in which you can manage reminders in a more complete way than it was in the past. By default, it is divided into Periodic, Punctual and Urgent . That way you can differentiate different types of alerts depending on whether or not they are important. Just by pressing the ‘+’ button below any of them you can add new ones. If you also click on the ‘i’ , you can add other information such as a URL, set the day, add a priority …
There are several interesting options within the mentioned settings, such as the possibility of reminding yourself of something when you are in a certain place . For example, imagine that you forgot an object in the office and you don’t want to leave without it, because adding your office address will skip a notification when you arrive so that you remember to keep it in your backpack.
Another very useful option is to send reminders when you talk to a person through messages. The example of this would be that you had to remind your friend Pepe that he owes you 10 euros, because with this option activated you will skip the reminder when you establish a conversation with him through Messages. Unfortunately this last functionality is not active for other messaging platforms like WhatsApp.
Remember that you can also add periodicity to the reminders. Being able to choose to be reminded of something every day, every week, every month or at a personalized time interval. Imagine that you must take your pet to the vet every so often for a review, because you can add it in this app so that you do not forget.
Other methods to remind you of something
We believe that the best way to set reminders on the iPhone is through the aforementioned application, however you can find other methods in the system that will serve you the same. Perhaps it is not the end for which it is intended, but the Clock app can serve you for it if you go to the Alarms tab. By setting one or more days, an hour, a text and an alert tone, you can set a series of alarms that also serve to remind you of something.
In the same way you can set alarms in the calendar to carry out certain tasks. Entering this native iOS app, you can press the ‘+’ button at the top right and add an event. You can determine a duration of the whole day or minutes and hours. The option that you must activate is the Notice , since it will be the one that allows you to receive notifications from one hour before the event to one week before.
In any case, as you have already verified, the iPhone has tools that are simple but useful enough to not allow you to forget anything. After all, we have too many things on our minds to be able to memorize everything, and equipment like this that we use so frequently may be the key.
