During today's WWDC keynote at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, Apple announced a plethora of new features and enhancements coming to iOS 13, the next major update to the world's best mobile operating system.
Reminders
Last-minute screenshot leak shows iOS 13’s revamped Reminders app in Dark Mode
A few hours before the WWDC 2019 keynote is scheduled to kick off, Benjamin Geskin posted a claimed iOS 13 screenshot that pictures a redesigned Reminders app in Dark Mode.
Check out the first screenshots of iOS 13’s Dark Mode, a revamped Reminders app & more
iOS 13 is widely expected to bring a new system-wide Dark Mode which debuted on the Mac last year in macOS Mojave, and now we have our first screenshots showing it in action.
Shortcuts Focus: how to delete all your completed reminders in one fell swoop
Inexplicably, Apple's Reminders app to this date has not bothered to offer us an option to delete all of the completed reminders at once. It should, at the very least, be able to remove completed items after a set number of days, but even that isn't allowed. Basically, you're left with two choices—either, joy, delete completed reminders manually, one by one, like an animal; or, leverage the power of scripting and iOS automation to your advantage like a boss.
Knowing the limits for iCloud contacts, calendars, reminders and bookmarks
If you’re having trouble importing contacts, attaching more files to a calendar event, or saving a large bookmark, you may have simply surpassed the iCloud limits. Apple puts limitations on the sizes and numbers of items.
To ensure you can continue using iCloud successfully, you should stay within these limits for Contacts, Calendars and Reminders, and Bookmarks.
The best birthday reminder apps for iPhone
With the offerings from technology, there’s really no reason to forget someone’s birthday these days. Even Facebook makes a point to notify you when a friend’s special day has arrived. But, if you want an easier way to receive birthday reminders wherever you are, check out an app for your iPhone instead.
These are some of the best birthday reminder apps for iPhone that have just the features you need so that you never forget a birthday.
Fantastical picks up iOS 12 & watchOS 5 goodies, including Siri Shortcuts support
Developer Flexibits has refreshed its iPhone calendar replacement Fantastical with a bunch of iOS 12 and watchOS 5 goodies, including support for Siri Shortcuts and interactive notifications on iPhone and those information-dense Infograph watch faces on Apple Watch Series 4.
How to change the default list for the Reminders app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to set a default list for the Apple Reminders app so that the to-dos you create using Siri are automatically added to that list.
Notification hell? Here’s how to set up and customize YouTube scheduled digest.
YouTube scheduled digest is a cool feature that will reduce your notification overload.
How to have YouTube nudge you when it’s time to take a break from watching
Do you lack self-control? Then you're not surprised that YouTube is a major time-suck.
It's perfectly fine to go down YouTube's rabbit hole every now and then. The world's most-trafficked video site, once a clearinghouse for kitten videos, has become both a cultural phenomenon and a go-to platform for the next-generation of truly innovative video creators.
And with its ever-improving recommendation engine, it’s all too easy to waste precious time on related videos that you didn’t really mean to watch but deemed too interesting to pass on. YouTube's app features custom reminders for when you'd like to take a break from watching.
This tweak hides the search bar from the Reminders app
Frequent users of Apple’s Reminders app know how useful it can be for organizing a busy thought process, but some people don’t like that they can’t customize it.
Those with jailbroken devices have a little more customization leeway, and new free jailbreak tweak called HideReminderSearchView by iOS developer CydiaGeek lets jailbreakers flex those muscles.