Reminders

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.

The best birthday reminder apps for iPhone

Happy Birthday Card hip 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.

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.