iOS 26.2 Adds Alarms for Reminders

[n-evo]

Great! Finally.

 

[delsoul]

When will it release? I only see 26.1

 

[Jaisah]

I've sent feedback about this multiple times. Glad to see they are finally doing it!

 

[CrysisDeu]

Also want alarms for calendar notifications

 

[ignatius345]

BTW, fun example in the story here, but every cat I've ever lived with has had a very good built in Feed the Cat alarm. And no, you can't "reschedule" it either.

 

[Boeingfan]

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I find it alarming how often I miss a reminder.
See what I did there? 😳🙄🤭

Thanks Fozzie 😁

 

[svish]

Good to see better integration. Will update and try this out. Think it will be useful for me.

 

[Ethan.Albano]

Thanks. How about “set alarm for Thursday at 5PM?

No dice. Still doesn’t like an alarm being set for 24h+ ahead.

 

[n-evo]

BTW, fun example in the story here, but every cat I've ever lived with has had a very good built in Feed the Cat alarm. And no, you can't "reschedule" it either.

Sometimes someone's feeding someone else’s cat at someone else’s place. 🤷‍♂️

 

[nicho]

Two questions that might leave me putting off a to do list item I have until this much more elegant solution is released.

1) Can URGENT reminders be created by shortcuts in 26.2?

2) What happens when you are wearing an apple watch?

 

[TheMacPotato]

I wonder if we can set a reminder with Siri saying "set an urgent reminder" but probably not lol.

Here is what I found on the web for "Set an urgent reminder"

 

[adrianlondon]

I currently have a daily automation which reads my reminders, and if it finds one matching a pattern (date is the next day and title starts with "Alarm: " then it marks the reminder as done and sets an alarm for the time the reminder was due.

I don't need that often, but I find it useful when deciding - a few days in advance - what time I need to get up to catch a flight or something.

I like my automation and felt smug that it worked, but it seems it may no longer be necessary 😁. I'm currently testing the new 26.2 option.

 

[adrianlondon]

I wonder if we can set a reminder with Siri saying "set an urgent reminder" but probably not lol.

I just tried. It titled the reminder "Urgent". Useless as ever is our Siri.

Also, I just noticed this in settings - might be useful for some.

 

[Cesar Battistini]

Finally will be useful!

 

[artifex]

Just tried it with the Type to Siri interface. It still creates the reminder, but does not hit the urgent toggle for you. Bummer. Should be an easy fix, I'd assume.

Also seems like an accessibility failure until they actually do.

 

[AppleCook]

Also seems like an accessibility failure until they actually do.

Good point, worth reporting!

 

[nolajoins]

I think this is a much needed feature but it is still failing in one area. You can't set it for a location based reminder. These are the reminders that are easiest to miss since you are usually preoccupied when you arrive or leave a location. As far as I can see, the urgent slide button is tethered to the time slide button.

Is this technically harder to do or is it a horrible oversight?

This would be the actually game changer IMO