Is Apple Reminders Down?
Written By The Aftertone Team
Check https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus for live status. If Apple Reminders is not listed as having an active incident, the issue may be on your end -- try restarting the app or checking your internet connection.
What to do right now
1. Open Google Calendar directly. Your events sync there regardless of whether Apple Reminders is working.
2. Write your three priorities for the day. Open Notes or grab a piece of paper. Three things that have to happen today. Apple Reminders going down does not change what matters.
3. Check Apple Reminders's status. Apple Reminders syncs via iCloud. The app itself works offline -- your reminders on this device are unaffected.
4. Start on your first priority. The real cost of a planning tool outage is not the 20 minutes it is down -- it is the hour you lose waiting for it instead of working.
If this keeps happening
If you are hitting the ceiling of what a reminders app can do, Smart Capture makes switching easy -- paste your reminder list in and Aftertone structures it into a proper weekly plan automatically.
Apple Reminders is a system-level reminders app. Aftertone adds time blocking, a calendar view, a Focus Screen, and weekly reports -- the difference between a list and a plan.
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