Reminder Sync Problem in IOS 7

My Reminders only began going haywire with 7.04 on my iPhone 4. And my iPad. Some work. Some don't. I wound up with unremovable blank lines when I tried to delete old completed.

Some of the "completed" tasks stay on the list until . . . it just decides to move them. I do wish Apple would go back to the old version of the app. It always worked perfectly. The new version is just frustration, and it is quite irritating as I had come to rely on it.

I'm having the exact same issues since iOS 7. Reminders just never pop up for me. They seem to sync relatively reliably, though sometimes not unless I actually open the app on my iPhone. But that said, I can be assured they won't actually alert on my phone. I've set Reminders to pop up as an alert (not a banner) and to show five reminders on the lock screen but neither works. But I've gone entire days with no alerts and I was late on a business call because I was relying on the app to remind me beforehand.

Useless.

The only things that works for me (sync Reminder Mac <-> iOS) is to open the calendar first. Once it syncs the Reminders are up to date. Hope Apple gets it fixed.

Thanks a lot amaninspired , your solution solved my problem too. Thanks a lot

I fixed my problem, but not the way anyone suggested here. My problem was basic.

New items on a list would not show up on the device unless I created an item in the list on the device. Then it wuold 'sync'.

This has nothing to do with Background Refreshes in iOS 7 (Reminders - on my devices - isn't even listed there). If you are using an iCloud account for your reminders, this is totally related to:

Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data > Push

AND

Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data > iCloud (your specific account) Push must be enabled

If you have the master push button on and you have push setup for the account it works fine.

Give it a try.

Go to Reminders on Mac. Locate completed list. Shift select all, delete > Go to icloud prefrences > uncheck reminders > recheck reminders

Hi Amaninspired, you're absolutely right. Going into Calendar does make Reminders update - weird!

Hi Manchot, you solved my problem. Push seemed to be it for me.

On my iPad Air, Push was enabled at overall level AND was enabled on iCloud account, however I went into the option and ticked it "again" and it worked flawlessly after that. It ironically, needed a reminder!

On iPhone, Push was turned off overall however enabled for iCloud but I believe you need the overall setting to generally enable push. So I switched it On and Reminders flew in.

Sync time for all reminders is now about 2 to 4 seconds and that means I now know that if I add a reminder on iCloud Web that my devices should have it for the day I want it to remind me on!

That's great. Yes, once I figured it out, it's worked perfectly on all my devices.

apple's produts are soooo complicated I wish I chose samsung

I have to second these remarks because, with iOS 9.3.2 on the iPhone, I still have to do the same thing. iPad and laptop are fine; just the iPhone is the problem. Refresh somehow and then it works.

This is not a direct response to the previous post, but a reference guide that may be of some use to some of you looking to this thread:

Get help using Outlook with iCloud for Windows - Apple Support

Outlook sometimes, for whatever reason, disables the necessary Add-on that allows it to keep in sync with iCloud. In working with people having sync issues between the two, I often found myself correcting the add-on to active to fix this.

I'M having this problem as well, but just on my iPhone 7. I drive all day on my job and use reminders constantly. I need to quickly mark them off as they appear with as little distraction as possible. This was working reasonable well until a few weeks ago. The reminder comes up and I have to push down hard to get to the drop down menu to open to clear it. Then select my choice. Now, the choice to dismiss doesn't work and I can't even clear the reminder off the screen unless I hit the home button. Then I have to open the app and (as the person above does) play chase to mark the reminder off. Mark it, it moves, then it's not marked, find it again, try to mark it. All this is NOT handy when driving. And NOW, my lock screen keeps filling up with reminders that are from days ago that are marked off! So far, this is not occurring on my iPad. Unless Apple fixes this soon, I may have to look for another reminder system, I can't risk a "distracted driver" ticket because I'm fiddling with this app!