Comments on: iPhone’s reminders need some work

By: Tobi

Tobi — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:44:16 +0000

a lightyear is a distance not a time unit…

By: Adrian Wettach

Adrian Wettach — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:48:18 +0000

As a former Blackberry user, I miss two features on the iPhone:
1. A "go to date" (it takes considerable time in order to enter a reminder on Nov. 30, 2018, on the iPhone)
2. Not being able to set a reminder only two days but not 1 week in advance, to remind me on time about birthday cards to be mailed from the USA to Europe (have to do this in Outllook at my desk).

By: SarahNyGirl

SarahNyGirl — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:35:35 +0000

This app is "Reminders!" awesome! thanks for the tip

By: Rudi

Rudi — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:46:09 +0000

Our app does a way better job at reminding you. http://www.ripeapps.com/reminders/ Let me know what you think

By: Greg Parker

Greg Parker — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:21:39 +0000

I found a great solution with an app called "Calendar Alarm". It adds louder and longer sounds to all my events in the native calendar. What I really like about It is that I can use the native calendar app.

At last, I can choose a better alert sound!

Greg =

By: alexluft

alexluft — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:23:00 +0000

Amy, I recommend reading the entire response thread above. What you're experiencing with the reminders is exactly what I (and many others) are complaining about here. Specifically, reminders on the iPhone have much room for improvement: they need to stay on the screen longer and become more "in your face." The ability for a reminder to not go away until you tell it to is important for me (and I'm guessing for you).

As for Peter, I provided a specific step-by-step outline of how to sync calendars using the best calendar on the web – Google Calendar. See my response to him immediately below his comment.

Cool beans!

- Alex

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:24:11 +0000

I have problems with calender reminders when i have the key lock on, the reminders come up on screen, but when you get a few you cant read them all, or if you just don't pay full attention, and you unlock the keypad they just disappear. Its really annoying, sure I can just look in my calender but sometimes i set reminders birthdays a few days in advance so it can take a while to look through and work out what i was reminding myself about. Anyone know a workaround to this/Apple please fix this!

Answer for Peter, I have an outlook account at my work, I am not exactly sure how but my two calenders talk to one another, as long as I select which calender to add it in when adding an event directly in my iphone, if i choose the outlook calender it appears in both, if i chose just the iphone it just appears in that calender. I would like to tell you how to set this up but its just one of those things i stumbled upon without really knowing how, but may be worth some research if you dont want to shift your cleander from outlook to google.

By: alexluft

alexluft — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:09:06 +0000

I think there is some room for improvement there too: an all-day reminder should have the option to have a reminder at a specific time on that day (or another day). But that makes it a to-do, and the iPhone doesn't have that yet. Hopefully they'll think it through.

- Alex

By: kemcho

kemcho — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:49:35 +0000

Yes, that makes sense. Since, this is a birthday event, I was setting it as "All day event". I guess for reminder purposes, I will not set this as all day event.

Thanks

By: alexluft

alexluft — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:14:05 +0000

There is!

Just set the appointment time for when you want it to remind you. So if you want the reminder to pop up at 2pm, set it the appointment time for 2 and then set the reminder for 2 days before. That way, the appointment will pop up at 2pm 2 days before the appointment.

Also, make sure that there are 2 days before the actual event.

Hope that makes sense!

Alex