Due Date option in Reminders.

An update... I have found that if I set a reminder with a 'remind me' date/time and a custom repeat and complete the task, then the new reminder is triggered by the due date and the remind me date stays the same.

So, I set a reminder for 25 Dec 2016 saying "It's Christmas" with a repeat annually. When I tick this reminder as complete, the remind me date stays as 25 Dec 2016 but it gains a due date of 25 Dec 2017

At least that is how it looks on Sierra.

Click on the date it is due and enter a time, then the event. Or make it the day before or whenever you want to be reminded.

Then you will get a reminder. There is no "due Date" feature I know of.

I've found a way, but it's annoyingly complicated:

1. Export your reminders list (produces a .ics file)

2. Open the .ics file with a plain text editor (I used TextMate, but I'm sure any editor would work).

3. Search for the reminder.

-Say you are looking for "Homework 5", you should find something like this:

SUMMARY:Homework 5

4. Below that field (but before END:VTODO) there are 2 fields:

DUE;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T140000

and

TRIGGER;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121108T140000Z

5. TRIGGER is when you want to be reminded. DUE is the missing due field if it doesn't match TRIGGER.

6. Modify TRIGGER to a legit time (24-hr, of course):

TRIGGER;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121107T180000Z

7. Save and Import the modified .ics file back into a new list in reminders. Then, delete the original list.

8. You should see the due field now and be able to edit the dates natively within the app.

9. You're killing me, Apple. The due field would be extremely useful, especially for students like me. I wish the presence of the due field were toggle-able in Settings>Reminders.

10. While I'm ranting about my wishes, the repeat feature would be much more useful if the frequency were completely customizable (i.e. Repeat every [#] [wks/hrs/days] or Repeat every [1st/2nd/3rd/etc.] [Day of week] of every [1st/2nd/3rd/etc.] [month/week] and so on... ).

Since these are user-to-user forums Apple isn't listening here. If you want Apple to know

file feedback here.

Ah, I wasn't aware. Thanks for the heads up.

I might be missing something but I have the option to set due date in reminders (or location). Once chosen the due date appear below the title of the reminder.

Mark

I understand what you mean now. My workaround is to include the due date in the title of the reminder and to schedule the alarm several days in advance of the due date. It would be preferable to have the due date as a separate field.

Mark

Please, please, please, anyone that is part of this conversation, or comes across it, please report the issue that both alarms and due dates at the same time are not possible as a bug here:http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html. The more people who submit it, the more likely apple will listen.

Think they'll do anything about it since due dates aren't an option anymore?

As the code remains for due dates, since older tasks with due dates sync correctly, then yes, with enough feature requests or bug reports I believe they would bring it back.

A work-around I just found was that if you stil have at least one reminder with the due date option, you can copy and paste that event and the copied event will still have the due date option. Then modify the data to be your new reminder.

It seems that you have a be a little careful with the "copy a template containing both 'due' and 'remind me' approach" (at least in my experience). Near as I can tell, internally Reminders is treating the "remind me" as an offset, not an as an absolute datetime (kind of like Calendar does with start and end times). The practical upshot is that when you edit the "due" datetime it will also change the "remind me" datetime!

The workaround is, simply enought, to edit the "due" first and the "remind me" second.