What’s New in Reminders with iOS 16 on the iPhone

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In this video, we’re going to look at what’s new with the Reminders app on the iPhone with iOS 16.

Let’s go into my iPhone. So I’m in my Reminders app, the first thing we’re going to look at is pinned lists, we can now pin our lists. What do I mean by that? Well, if we look here, you’re gonna see I have this list here. For today, I have all of my lists, or all of my reminders, I have my assigned reminders, what we can now do is we can pin our own list to this top area here. So let’s see, I always use my errands list, I would like to have a show at the top in this top area here. To do that, all we have to do is just swipe over to the right on it, and you’re going to see we have our little pin, I can tap on this, or what I’m able to do is just swipe all the way over. And we can see it moved it up to my pinned lists.

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Let’s go and pin my shopping one, I use that one quite a bit as well. So I just have to swipe. And now we have shopping up towards the top. How do we unpin these lists? Why don’t we just tap and hold on, and then you’re going to see unpin tap on it. And now it just moves it back over to my list here. It does move it down to the bottom here. So what I’m going to have to do is reorder this, how do we reorder it? Well, we can tap and hold, and then we just drag it up. And we can place it wherever we want.

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What else is new? Well, we now have templates. This is actually one of my favorite features. With templates, what we’re able to do is save any one of our current lists here as a template, so then you can reuse it. Let’s go and do this with shopping. Let’s see how this works. What I want to do is create a template out of this. So then, when I go to the grocery store, and I’m done shopping, I can just remove or delete this list and create a new one from a template. In order to do that, what we need to do is open up the list. And then we go up to our three dots here in the upper right hand corner. And you’re going to see, Save as Template, all I have to do is just tap on this. And now I have my template here. I can include my completed reminders, I want to do that. Tap on it. And then I click on Save. So now I’ve just created that template. So how do I use this? Well, let’s go back over to lists, you’re going to see I have my shopping lists here, what I’m going to do is just remove this lists. In order to do that, all I do is just swipe over to the right, and I delete it I’m done with this list. Now what I’d like to do is create a new shopping list from that template. In order to do that, all I have to do is just go up to the three dots here. And then we go over to templates. And you’re going to see my shopping list. I tap on this. It’s going to create a new list, I can rename it.

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And then when I tap on create, we can see we have my shopping list here, and it has all of my records in there. I can mark this as complete as I go shopping. And if I want to delete it, I can swipe over to the right to delete it. I’m all done with that list. I want to create a new shopping list, I go up to the top, go to templates.

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And then I can create a new shopping list. I can also add it to template, I go up to the three dots again, in the upper right hand corner, we go to Edit lists. And then from here I’m able to edit my lists.

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So this is a great way to reuse reminders lists, such as packing lists or shopping lists, you can create a default shopping list or a default packing list. And then you save it as a template. And then you can reuse that every time you go shopping or every time you go on a trip. So those are the new templates. We also have a completed smart list. What do I mean by that? Well, when I go over to all of my lists, here are my pin lists are you going to see I have completed when I tap on this, I can see all of my completed reminders. They are organized by date. So this is from 2020. And then we swipe up and we can see all of my older reminders. If I want to mark any one of them as incomplete, I can just tap on it, and it moves back into my reminders list. It’s going to move back into the original reminders list. So when I go back over to my lists here, it’ll move it back into the appropriate lists down here. So we can now easily see our completed reminders and mark them as incomplete to move them back into our lists just by going to our new smart list here.

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Reminders will also group your different reminders by the time of day. When I go over to today here you’re going to see that I have more

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Morning, as well as afternoon and tonight. So how does it know when to put them into the appropriate grouping? Well, it’s based on the time of day. Let’s go over to my lists here. And what I’m going to do is go over to reminders here. And we’re going to go to this reminder here, let’s say I needed an answer I needed to reply by tonight. So what I do is I tap on it, you’re gonna see that we have the eye here. And now what I do is I go down to my date and time here. And I’m just going to put in here 7pm. So we need to answer this by tonight, tap on Done. And now I go back over to my lists. And when we look at my today being that this is due today, and it’s due at seven o’clock, you’re gonna see that it moved it over to tonight, it will also group different reminders by week and month if you have reminders that are out into the future. So you no longer have to be looking at reminders that are due later on along with your reminders that are due today. It’ll just group them together by the time of day, as well as the weekend, the month.

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We have improved list groups. What do I mean by that? Well, what we can do is we can group these different lists together. And when we do that, what it’ll do is it’ll separate the different reminders out by what group they are in, or what list there and let’s see what I mean, probably easier to show you than to explain it to you. Let’s go and create a group. First, we’re going to go with shopping down towards the bottom here. And groceries, I’m going to put these into one group, it’s still going to be two different lists, but it’s going to be in one group. To do that, all I have to do is just drag one on top of the other.

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And then I have this new group here. So let’s just call this shopping group. I tap on create, we can see it includes two different lists, I can go and edit those lists. But I’m just going to keep it with those two lists, I tap on create. And now I have my shopping group. Now that is nothing new with iOS 16. But what is new is when I tap on this, I’m able to see both of those shopping lists. And it’s going to be grouped together by the shopping list or by the reminders list. So here are all my groceries grouped together. And here are all my shopping items that are grouped together. So they’re in this one group or this one shopping group. But they’re still separated by the reminders lists.

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We have richer notes, let’s go and add a note here. I’m going to tap on steak. And then what we’re going to do is go over to the eye here.

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When I go over into the notes here, what I’m able to do is type my note. And if I want to make something bold or italic, what I now can do is double tap on it. And then we go over to the right arrow, you’re going to see format. And then from here, what I can do is make it bold italic, underline, or a bulleted list our dashlets. So we have our different formatting options. Now let’s go and make this bold. And now we can see that that is bold. So if you wanted to add a bulleted list, or make something more prominent by making a bold, you can now do that in your reminders notes. And then the last thing I want to show you is we have a smarter Smart Filter.

What do I mean by that? Well, let’s go on tap on down here. And when we go over to our smart list, if you’re not familiar with a smart list, when I go on add a list, what I can do is I can create a smart list. What this will do is this will group different reminders together based on tags, date, time, location, flag priority, or even lists. In the past, the way that this worked was it included all of the items. So let’s say we did it by tags, what I can do is turn it on by tags, and then I would select my tags. So let’s go with Bob’s butcher and farmers market. Now in the past, what it would do is it would create a smart list based on these two tags that would have to include both of those tags to be in that smart list. Well now what you can do is you can have it be any of the selected tags. So the smart list will be any items that is in either one of these it doesn’t have to be in both, it has to be in either one. You can still make it both by tapping on this and just say all selected tags. Tap on that.

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And now will only include items that are tagged with both of those. This is the old way of doing it. But now what I can do is I can tap on this and then go to any selected tags. I select my tags I tap on Done. And now I give it a name. Just gonna call it test here we have my new test And it’s including all of the items that have either one of those two tags that I selected. If I want to change this, I can I can go up to the three dots here. And then from here, I can go and show the Smart List info. And I can go and change how to select in those items. So if I wanted to have it back to the old way, all I have to do is just go to any selected tags, I tap on all selected tags. And now when I tap on, done here, what it will do is it will include only items that include both of those tags. This is the old way of doing it.

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So that’s what’s new in the Reminders app with iOS 16. We have pinless templates, which is one of my favorite features. We also have a completed smart list, we have an improved schedule and to date lists, we can group our reminders by the time of day that they’re due. We also have an improved list group. We have improved lists groups. Now when we group different reminders together in a group, we can still see what the original list each item is in. We have richer notes, we can make our text bold or bulleted or italic within a reminder. And then we have improved smart lists. So that is what’s new with the Reminders app on the iPhone with iOS 16.