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iOS 16: Everything New With Notes and Reminders
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Sorting by date on the Notes app and ability to lock the notes using device passcode are great.
Agreed, notes helps out when trying to quickly save something being explained or the likes.
Notes is a dangerous app to use. There’s no backing up of a note. One wrong move and things can be gone forever. I use Pages instead. At least with Pages things get backed up with Time Machine.
Have we gotten any indication if they have actually fixed Reminders sync and iCloud storage issues? Its a disgrace for 3 updates and counting I have been unable to sync with my iPhone. iPad and mac work fine but there is an undeleteable (?word LOL?) 2.9gb of Reminders on my phone that cannot be cleared or offloaded or anything which prevents anything more than a 1x download of current iCloud reminders that does not then sync with iCloud. Tried everything nothing works. See others have this same issue and no patch or fix from apple. Horrible memory management bug. Support tickets galore and nothing done at all
Great guide! Sounds like we can look forward to a lots of great features coming in iOS 16.
Definitely. 👍
One of the most useful apps for me.
Not just quick notes, but drawings, images you name it. Together with Handoff it is a dream over all my Apple devices.
My Notes app is akin to an overstuffed physical notebook held together by elastic bands. Just with the ability to search.
Reminders is also useful, but there is definitely a bug with the UK Location info. Remind me when I arrive at XYZ place does not work very well. Why give me addresses of places miles away? It is obvious I need the closest locations first.
Yes. Great idea.
Agreed. I didn't read the article in detail and immediately went to Notes on my phone and clicked to activate the new security. Luckily, I got a pop-up warning me that it'd make the Notes unreadable on anything less than iOS16 and Ventura.
I have an iPhone 6S as a backup phone which is limited to iOS 15, so it's good that there was a warning.
Strange we will be able to make a smart folder using date created but we can't actually see date created anywhere in the note. Usually people type in their own created date which obviously can't be used as a date filter.
Will CalDAV sync be working with reminders in macOS 13 Ventura or is Apple continuing to ignore industry standards has they have in the past?
Some nice new additions and changes coming to add to the existing feature set. My only gripe is that it's disappointing you need to enable iCloud sync for Notes and Reminders to gain access to smart lists, smart folders, and tags. I only use one Apple device so I feel it unnecessary to enable iCloud sync for these apps.
Touch-ID still unlocks my notes. However, I didn't upgrade to the new "phone passcode" option.
Notes lost me a couple of years ago. No way to export or backup notes. Given how important that is, I found it unacceptable. So I copied my data one note at a time and now my notes are in a better app and are fully backed up and transportable.
Reminders is great though.
Reminders is great though.
You can set it so you can be notified about Reminders at specific times of the day, if that’s what you’re wondering. Now, they don’t show up on your calendar, but Reminders is actually based on CalDAV on the backend. As a matter of fact, Reminders supports Yahoo Calendars. Unfortunately, Google’s web services are proprietary as always and sync via their own method, so you don’t get Reminders sync like you would via CalDAV. (You can get Google Calendar to populate in the stock calendar app, you just don’t get the task syncing aspect.) Google Calendar might technically support CalDAV for import and export, but it doesn’t support them for in-place syncing.
I could have sworn Apple uses CalDAV. That’s how it can use Reminders with Yahoo Calendar, which uses CalDAV. If you’re asking about Google Calendar, I don’t think it actually uses CalDAV except as an import/export mechanism. I seem to remember needing to play around with a 3rd party app to get Google Calendar to use CalDAV and CardDAV back in the day.
I wish Apple would buy Fantastical - I find the Reminders app brutal to use but the way its implemented inline with a calendar is just next level incredible.
Same train of thought for me. Silly tasks go into the reminders app but important things to remember go in the calendar.
I use reminders only for shopping lists.
I did try to use Reminders for actual reminders, triggered by location, but it never worked for some reason. So now anything which has a date or time associated with it goes into my calendar.
I did try to use Reminders for actual reminders, triggered by location, but it never worked for some reason. So now anything which has a date or time associated with it goes into my calendar.