IOS 17 Broke the Reminders Widget *In my opinion*

I agree 100%!

This slows me way down and I've lost items because of it.

I understand that an interactive widget might be nice for some. But if you can only "interact" with 3 of the items on your list - you can't scroll down - that seems pretty useless to anyone.

I use the smaller, minimal widgets as quick access buttons. They work great. But my most used widgets are 7 or 8 different reminders lists which I now have to be careful of tapping wrong or I lose data.

A compromise could be to allow the interactive function on the larger jumbo sized widgets where you have the real estate to play with, and keep the little ones as they were.

Definitly. It's not my first time going into the list and showing completed items and identifying which item was "completed" by accident. REALLY ANNOYING.

Since the described behaviour really annoyed me, I've meanwhile recreated a non interactive reminder widget via the Scriptable app. The corresponding script can be found here: https://gist.github.com/gorootde/178e5120494d6f79f0ef31f4480c1e9c

If you don’t use separate reminder lists, Widgetsmith’s reminder widget is an option. It only shows the All reminders list and doesn’t scroll but at least it doesn’t clear your reminders when you tap it.

This new interactive widget for reminders is HORRIBLE. It is unusable because every time I tap it, it clears one of my reminders. I do not understand why they did this and want to turn off the interactivity! This app saves my life and now I can barely use it. I hope Apple sees this.

ccolemanhs -

Here's my method for dealing with Apple's new "Unintentional Reminder Item Deletion Widget".

Open the list and make sure "sort" is set to "manual. At the top of the list, create three entries with something like "OO" or "XXX". Now the widget will display those first three entries. If you accidentally tap in the item area to open your list, three things happen: your list doesn't open, one of your "XX's" is gone, (I have mine set to "Hide completed") and you will see an item you do need appear in the widget.

Until Apple allows toggling off "interactivity"...!

Sorry, my bad. It just was only showing reminders that were overdue rather than those due by the end of today. This edit to the first part of the script works better for me:

let cal = await Calendar.defaultForReminders()

let reminders = await Reminder.allIncomplete([cal])

reminders.sort((a, b) => {

return a.dueDate < b.dueDate

})

const today = new Date(Date.now())

reminders = reminders.filter((a) => (a.dueDate <= today))

This is cool, is it limited to displaying three reminders? Can i increase that somehow?