In the Reminders app, you can easily filter your items across lists using Smart Lists. You can create custom Smart Lists to automatically include items filtered by tags, dates, times, locations, flags, and priority. You can choose more than one tag (such as #gardening and #errands) and combine them with other filters.
There are default Smart Lists, like Today, Scheduled, and Flagged, and you can convert a list to a Smart List, though not a shared list.
Note: When you use updated reminders, all Reminders features described in this guide are available, but other accounts don’t support some of them.
Automatically organize items using the default Smart Lists
- Open the Reminders app on your iPad.
- Tap the More button and then tap Edit Lists.
- Turn on or off the following Smart Lists:
- Today: Items scheduled for today and overdue items
- Scheduled: Items scheduled by date or time
- All: All items across all your lists
- Flagged: Items with a flag
- Completed: Items with a checkmark
- Assigned to Me: Items assigned to you in shared lists
- Groceries: Grocery items
- Siri Suggestions: Suggested items detected in Mail
Make a custom Smart List
- Open the Reminders app on your iPad.
- Tap the Add List button.
- Enter a name, tap List Type, and then choose Smart List.
- Tap Edit Filters, choose one or more filters, and then choose to include items matching any or all of the selected filters. You can filter by tags, dates, locations, and more.
- Choose a color and symbol for the list (optional).
- Tap the Done button.
Convert a list to a Smart List
Converting a list sends its items to the top level of the default list, where they’re tagged with the name of the Smart List.
Note: You can’t convert a shared list.
- Open the Reminders app on your iPad.
- View the list you want to convert.
- Tap the More button, tap Show List Info and scroll to the bottom. Tap Convert to Smart List.
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