Reminders Updates

We’ve already heard that Apple is redesigning the Reminders app in iOS 13, but hadn’t heard much other than there will be new ways of organizing and viewing tasks.

Federighi didn’t spend much time on Reminders, but the bullet-list of features he quickly covered sounds like there are some other more interesting and cool changes coming, including natural language input for creating new tasks with a quick-type bar that can automatically add locations and even attachments. It also looks like you’ll able to associate to-dos with top-level reminders for building hierarchical lists, and create smart lists to group reminders based on various criteria.

One particularly cool integration is that you’ll now be able to tag your contacts in individual tasks, in which case you’ll get notified in Messages when you happen to be talking to somebody for whom you have a pending reminder.