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How do I share a Reminders list?

Before, when reminders were found in the calendar, there as a little icon on the right that you could click to share your list with someone. Now they took Reminders out of the calendar, and there is no place to select and share the list. All the help menus are outdated for the old iCloud format. Please advise how I am supposed to share lists from the reminder app???

Posted on Sep 13, 2012 5:42 PM

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Sep 22, 2012 7:42 AM in response to MightyMac

So how do you share a reminder list in 10.8.2? I don't see it.


Therefore somebody at Apple decided it was too confusing to show reminders in Calendars on icloud.com and that nobody should be able to share reminder lists. This is just a very stupid way to think. Too focused on how something looks than it's actual functionality. Once you've exposed functionality live with the consequences of your decision don't take something away just because you don't like the way it looks.

Sep 22, 2012 10:20 AM in response to Robert Nicholson1

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The way my wife and I created a shared list was rather simple.


We opened up the Reminder app on our computer, created a reminder, then moused over the right hand side of the newly created reminder. This brings up a hidden icon that looks like a little broadcast symbol. Click on it, then add the iCloud email of the person with whom you want to share the list.

Once they accept the invitation sent to thier email, you have created the list.


This is really unfortunate for those folks that don't have a machine running 10.8.2. Seems like a huge oversight by Apple.

Oct 11, 2012 1:23 PM in response to Rufus_6

Apple... seriously. We get it. Siri and the dictation function is good- that makes reminders quite useful. We are so proud to be apple users, and love Siri. However, separating reminders from ical is like taking spell check out of word processing. Yes, i can look at a dictionary. Yes, i could even go to another application and search for the word. But integration is also good when the feature is so integral to planning. Also, the sharing feature on the remnders was a nice touch. I was sharing reminders with my wife, and a co-worker.


Now, reminders is frustrating.

Oct 20, 2012 6:23 PM in response to bbarl

I is insane that every fruit and can a green beens that my wife checks off the list triggers an email. I had 25 emails "ketchup", "bread" etc. this afternoon. I talked to support to no avail. They suggested I turn off notifications entirely for Reminders. Sounds like a Microsoft solution.


I have an idea I might try. If you look at the sender of the email it is noreply@icloud.com. So if I am going to try and create a filter to dump all emails from that adress in the trash. I will post my findings.

Oct 20, 2012 7:05 PM in response to Thorasgar

Results: I did not do the noreply filter. I tried this instead. I have a xxx@me.com iCloud account, my wife has a xxx@aol.com apple id/icloud account. If I create the list on her ios device, share it on pc at icloud.com things work great. The list shares and her aol email does not get email notifications, nor does my me.com . I created a couple of other lists with my me.com id and same problem. I get emails every time a item is added or check off by her. So this "undocumented feature" and "locked feature" seems to be unique to me.com apple accounts.


As others have said icloud is a work in progress, so they may change the feature set in the future. It would be great if I got a banner notification she added or completed a task, but an email is just insane.


This solution will not work for everyone, but if one user has a non apple domain apple ID then it might work for you.


Good luck.

Jan 31, 2013 8:01 PM in response to MerrilyW

I have two iPhone 5s and a iPad 2. I have to say I'm feeling a bit flustered here with the lack of synergy between Apple's own iOS apps. It would ideal to see some integration between calendar, reminders and notes apps. It would be nice to set reminders in the calendar and have new reminders automatically added to the calendar and then be able to share that information with others. But there's no cross communication between these apps. It's like having four separate calculator apps, one for addition, one for subtraction, one for multiplication and one for division... Looks like it's back to the app store... Any recommendations for a REAL time management app? Google?

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