Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Today let me show you how to set
repeating reminders on your iPhone and your Mac.
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So you can use the Reminders App for To Do Lists and for setting items that have a due date and
time and you'll get a Notification then. But you can also have these notifications
repeat everyday, every week, every month in a certain pattern. Let me show you how to do it.
So here on the iPhone let's go into the Reminders App. I'll go into a list here and then I'll create
a new reminder by tapping here at the bottom. Now let's just call this Test and let's set
this up to give us a notification. I'm going to tap the i here and one of the things I can
do is set it to have a date or time. So let's do both. For date we'll just start with today
and time I'll just pick a time here. Let's say 3 in the afternoon. Now at this point we would
just get a notification today at 3 o'clock. That's when the item is due. But we could set this to be
a repeating notification by tapping here. You get a bunch of choices. So you could have this
repeat hourly so it will start at 3 p.m. and then you'll get a notification every hour after that.
Or you can have it do it daily. So everyday at 3 p.m.. Weekdays, so Monday through Friday 3 p.m..
Saturday and Sunday 3 p.m. would be weekends. Weekly would be the same day every week. So today,
for instance when I'm recording this, is a Wednesday. So every Wednesday I would get this.
You could also do biweekly. So every other week.
Monthly would be on the same day of the month every month. You could have every three months,
every six months, or every year. So the same day every year you could get this reminder.
But if you really want full control go to Custom. Custom allows you to set the frequency here to
hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. Depending upon what you select the bottom changes.
So, for instance, if I select weekly you could see I could select the days of the week. So if I want
to be reminded on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I could just check those. If I change to monthly
I'll get a Calendar. So I can say have a reminder on the first and the sixteenth or
each month like that. I could even change it to be every other month or every third month.
For yearly I get to pick which month it occurs. So I could have it be every February and November and
May. I could even bring up days of the week and have it be something like the first or
second or third Tuesday of each month. If I go back up to hourly I could do every hour or
every other hour, every fifth hour. Whatever I want.
Finally for daily I could also select every day, every other day, every third day, etc.
So let's set it for weekly and say we want Monday, Wednesday, and Friday reminders.
Now when we go back to details here it will say there's a custom repeat there. The time
is still going to be 3 p.m.. So we're going to get it at 3 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday every week. Now you could also set an end repeat here. So I can have it repeat forever or
have a end repeat date. So here I can go into the future and say I want this
to only go to the end of February next year. So as you can see you really have so much control
over these reminders. Even more so than how you can have things repeat in the Calendar App.
Now you can actually do the same thing in the Reminders App on the Mac. So,
for instance here I've setup a reminder called Test. I could
click on the Info button here and then I can have it remind me on a day at a time
and then I can have it repeat just like on the iPhone. So there are the same options
here. I can also select Custom and I can change from daily to weekly and then select the days.
I can go monthly and select the days for each month or on the first, second, third and then
day of the week. Yearly I can select the calendar months that I want to be reminded
and then have it be on the first, fifth, last, whatever day of that week.
Even including things like weekday and weekend day. Of course it's important to have the same
functionality on both the iPhone and on the Mac because they sync over iCloud. So you could
set it up on one and as long as you're using iCloud for Reminders then you should have that
reminder appear on both devices. This works, of course, on the iPad as well.
So I wouldn't use these for very critical things. I would use the Calendar instead.
For instance remembering to pay your taxes on a certain day of the year. But for smaller things
like reminding you to take a break, reminding you to call somebody every week, or check something
every other day, they are really useful for that. In fact creating a dedicated listener
in the Reminders App and putting all of these in there or maybe tagging them with the new macOS
Monterey tagging feature is a good idea so you can see all of your repeated reminders together.
So I hope you found this useful. Thanks for watching.