Reminders.app looses focus (on sync?)

Hi Frank,

I can confirm the problem. I use Reminders on both iOS and the Mac, and under Mountain Lion it has a very nasty 'focus' bug, where either the entry will stop accepting input while you're typing (so if you type "buy milk" it might loose focus after you've typed "buy m"). iOS does not have this problem.

It also looses focus before you start typing, so a new entry will be removed for being empty while I've not yet started typing.

This makes the program virtually unusable, since the problem will crop up within 1 to 3 entries if you type fast. I'm suprised so few people seem to encounter this problem, since it is absolutely 100% persistent on my set-up.

As an aside, Reminders also has an annoying way of registring when you want to type more after the entry looses focus. You would expect that clicking anywhere beyond the last character in the line will jump the edit cursor to the last character in the line so you can continu typing (this is default behaviour for any text editor or notes apps and any other to do list).

I use Omnifocus en Omnioutliner professionally, but like reminders on iOS and if fixed for Mac OS for simple shopping lists.

Harold

I also have the same problem running my MacBook Air and the latest Mountain Lion software. This problem makes the Notes application almost unusable if you are trying to type longer notes.

Please fix this Apple!

Note: A reboot of the OS fixes this problem temporarily. I will try to note when this problem happens again to see what causes it.

Same problem here....it's really annoying!

I contacted the Apple Support! Result? None.....never,ever heard of the problem there.

As I'm using a few other forums on the net (mainly in Germany), I can tell you that none of the forum members seems to have the problem or was able to solve the issue.

Any new hints or tipps?

Thanks!

Hi Pelzert,

I'm actually surprised that so few people seem to have this problem. It is constant on my laptop: restarting doesn't fix it, how I'm connected to the net doesn't effect it.

I'll try and set up a second machine with my settings and see if the same problem occurs and post here later...

Harold

Follow Up,

Checked on a second computer at home that hasn't been linked to my iCloud account yet. Without being logged in the Reminders app functions as expected. It doesn't 'lose' focus when entering reminders.

After logging into iCloud the Reminders app starts to behave erraticaly, losing focus a few seconds after you start typing. So the problem seems to be related to syncing. Since so few people seem to have this problem, and the people that do 'always' have this problem crop up, it seems to be related to the particulars of a specific account...

Harold

I'm having the same issue as well.

You are probably right, it appears to be related to iCloud sync. I notice the problem happens to me a lot more when I'm connected to the network. It is very annoying. I like it syncing with iCloud as then I can see my reminders in my iPad. But using the app on osx is just a miserable user experience. =/

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

Feedback

Apple support articles:

Reminders and Tasks Troubleshooting

iCloud: Calendar Events, Reminders, To Dos, and Tasks behavior differs by application

I gave up with the reminders app. I happened to purchase an app called BusyCal since it had all the nice features apple took away from iCal. With it came integrated reminder management which does just what I need and it's right in the calendar app where I find it to be the most useful.

No longer have a need for the broken reminders app!

10.8.3 seems to have fixed the problem for me. No 'lost focus' issues anymore so far...

Harold

Funny... I don't recall running into this problem *before* the Mountain Lion 10.8.4 update... .but this "lose focus" issue on the reminders app is in full force on my Mac here.... super annoying issue