5 New iOS 17 Features That Will Make Apple’s Reminders Even More Useful

The Reminders app built into the iPhone, iPad, and Mac hides a surprising number of valuable features. It’s evolved from its humble beginnings as a basic to-do list in iOS 5 to become a complete task management system with some unique capabilities, thanks to its home field advantage of deeper integration with Siri and other aspects of iOS and iPadOS.

Although the App Store hosts a wealth of powerful task management apps, Apple has also been slowly but steadily evolving its built-in Reminders app with new and useful features in almost every new iOS release. Apple doesn’t talk about Reminders much, so sometimes it’s easy to miss the improvements that come nearly every year.

For instance, iOS 13 introduced a significant redesign for the app, with smart lists, nested lists, natural language entry for tasks, and even linking reminders to conversations in Messages. Then, iOS 16 came along last year and added templates, time organization, note formatting, and more.

Now, only a year later, iOS 17 is upping Reminders’ game again with five more new features that could turn it into the only task and list manager many folks need. Read on to find out more about what’s coming…