iOS 27 adds new features to Apple Notes, Messages, Wallet, and more, and it has a few improvements for the Reminders app too. Here’s everything new for Reminders in iOS 27.
#1: Describe your reminder
Reminders has offered some level of natural language support for new reminders for a while. But in iOS 27, Apple Intelligence brings a new take on the feature.
When creating a new reminder, you can still use the same old system where you type certain reminder info, like a due date, and the keyboard row will suggest adding that date to the reminder.
But Apple Intelligence now goes a step further, letting you describe a reminder and have it automatically adopt all of the relevant metadata you mention. Per an iOS 27 splash screen:
Describe a New Reminder: Use your own words to describe a reminder and Apple Intelligence will help create it for you.
It’s unclear if both the old and new systems will continue to exist throughout the beta cycle, since both carry a lot of overlap in functionality. But in theory, the new AI-powered ‘describe’ feature should make reminder creation quicker and more seamless than before.
#2: Upgraded metadata editor inside lists
The new ‘describe’ feature is part of Reminders’ full task metadata panel. But if you’re just quickly adding or editing reminders inside a list, iOS 27 has an upgrade there too with more tools than ever.
In iOS 26, when creating or editing a task you would see five options above the keyboard row: Date, Location, Tag, Flag, and Camera.
In iOS 27, Reminders moves all metadata options into a new box that surrounds your active reminder. And it’s far more robust than before. The new UI lets you modify the following:
- Date
- Time
- Urgent
- Repeat
- Location
- Tag
- Flag
- Camera
You can still tap the ‘i’ icon to view the full set of metadata options, but with iOS 27 you shouldn’t have to do that nearly as often.
#3: Grocery list improvements
Apple says that Reminders’ grocery list auto-sorting feature has been made better in two ways:
- it now “sorts grocery list items more accurately”
- and grocery list sorting expands to multiple languages
Essentially, due to the more powerful Foundation Models in iOS 27, this feature that’s been around a while is going to work better than ever.
More info on Reminders’ grocery list feature <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/make-a-grocery-list-iph80ba26e1f/ios” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>is available here.
Which Reminders features in iOS 27 do you expect to use most? Let us know in the comments.
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