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Reminders App - Not Showing Badges

JWreck

JWreck

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I’m at my wits end - ever since swapping my phone for a warranty replacement (iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 16.5.1), setting up the phone as new (not using a backup), my Reminders app does not show badges when a reminder is overdue (ex: Due at 11am, reminder goes off but no badge icon displayed).

iPadOS does appear to have a config option in Notification Settings but iOS doesn’t appear to. Within the app settings, I have everything configured per usual (see included screenshot).

I’ve restarted, disabled & re-enables iCloud Reminders, and even deleted the app and re-downloaded it. Nothing.

Has anyone else been experiencing this and have a recommendation?
 

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Nuclear option, erase the phone and re-setup as new to get a clean slate? Something seems to been corrupted at some point (eg. Plist got messed up) and starting from square one might be only option since reinstalling has not done anything.
 
NoBoMac said:
Nuclear option, erase the phone and re-setup as new to get a clean slate? Something seems to been corrupted at some point (eg. Plist got messed up) and starting from square one might be only option since reinstalling has not done anything.
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Yeah I was hoping not to go that route again, since I literally just set it up as new from scratch.

Interestingly, my wife’s iPhone also is missing the Reminders app in the Notifications settings screen.
 
Quick update: I had already confirmed my wife’s phone doesn’t have the notification settings for reminders. Neither does my test phone, but that’s on iOS 17 b2, so I ruled that out as a comparison.

However, a test reminder for a specific time on my wife’s phone revealed that she is also not getting the badges.

So I have three phones across two Apple IDS, and not one of them has a Reminders setting in Notifications. This seems odd to me…
 
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Well, I’ve got nothing. I blew away my phone tonight, twice in fact as after the first time it was behaving oddly, so I did a DFU restore.

No change. Get notifications on all my other devices (2 iPads, 2 MBPs), but not my iPhone.

I really don’t want to call Apple. They’ve been worthless every time I do. Such a waste of time. But I use reminders extensively and this is very annoying.
 
Weird.

Phones under mobile device management for a company, school, etc? Or using their apps? Can't imagine why some organization would want to block changing Notifications settings changes, but possible.
 
NoBoMac said:
Weird.

Phones under mobile device management for a company, school, etc? Or using their apps? Can't imagine why some organization would want to block changing Notifications settings changes, but possible.
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Generally yes they have a profile installed, but in wiping it over the weekend multiple times, I never put the profile back on. So ruled that out.
 
theoapo said:
Try making a new reminder with a notification. The app will ask you to enable notifications...
This happened to me as well and I resolved it this way...
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WOW. I have been making test reminders on top of real reminders this whole time and nada - not prompts, no settings changes, nothing. Took your advice and made one that was location based and boom, right away asked me if it can send me notifications.

Wtf! This is broken! But I’m glad it’s working now after 3 phone wipes… 🤦🏼‍♂️
 
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JWreck said:
WOW. I have been making test reminders in top of real reminders this whole time and nada - not prompts, no settings changes, nothing. Took your advice and made one that was location based and boom, right away asked me if it can send me notifications.

Wtf! This is broken! But I’m glad it’s working now after 3 phone wipes… 🤦🏼‍♂️
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It just works... not!
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Glad I could help!
 
FFS how is this bug still here?!

Came here searching for a solution and yes, create a new reminder and it will start working.
 
Ark up!

I've had this issue since picking up the 15+. I have tried every suggestion other then the nuclear option, but to no avail. Anyway, I'm not saying this is 'thee' fix, but, it fixed it for me, permanently!

I went into settings/reminders/accounts/fetch new data, and change iCloud account to 'push'. Not fetch. Voila! the badge count on the 'due today' tab in reminders instantly showed the badge count. A lovely sight to see. This was a few days ago Reminders is now working as it always used to - flawlessly.

Hope this helps someone.
 
Well, that was short lived! I'm back to the reminders due today tab not showing any badges. But..................there is hope! By messing about, I think I have finally found out what the problem is, well not what the problem is, but how to get around it.

iCloud. iCLoud sems to be the problem. I haven't posted in a few weeks while I try out this work around, to make sure it works - and it does. Turn off reminders in iCloud (settings/tap your name/ icloud/reminders toggle off). I have tried setting a reminder every day (just to test my theory)with reminders in icloud toggled off, and it has worked every time. Every day I have had a lovely big reminders badge on the due today tab.

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Dog Bone Malone said:
Turn off reminders in iCloud (settings/tap your name/ icloud/reminders toggle off).
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If you do that the Reminders won’t sync across devices (iPhone and iPad).

I’ve noticed that if I have only one reminder with a due day AND time that the Today badge doesn’t register Even though the ‘app’ shows a badge On my Home Screen Very frustrating.

I think it’s definitely an iCloud issue. To make matters worse it seems to be somewhat intermittent. If there is a reminder with no time and a reminder with a time the Today badge seems to works as expected.
 
PS … I talked to Apple support three times. Useless. Even called to show them via screen sharing.

:mad:
 
theoapo said:
Try making a new reminder with a notification. The app will ask you to enable notifications...
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Thank you, you saved the day ... iphone 15, ios 18.1

The reminders were created on an old phone, then pushed to the new phone via cloud sync.

I wasn't getting any badges, the reminders app was missing from the notifications list in general > settings.

I have created a new reminder, added the time and bang, got a pop-up to allow notifications ... now everything works fine.
 
theoapo said:
Try making a new reminder with a notification. The app will ask you to enable notifications...
This happened to me as well and I resolved it this way...
:)
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Thank you! This solved my exact same issue on iPhone 16, iOS 18.1.1. I was getting so frustrated by this issue but your solution worked :)
 
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