iOS 8 location-based reminders not working

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NJL1971 Author

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iOS 8 location-based reminders not working

I have struggled with location-based reminders in iOS 8 for a while now. I can't get them to work at all.

Here is a list of everything I've tried:

1) hard reset of phone

2) fresh reinstall of iOS

3) turned location settings off and on for Reminders

4) deleted actual reminder and re-set

5) checked notification settings are ON for Reminders and set to appear on lock screen

I'm stumped. The alerts never happen. Please see attached screen shots. The one that perplexes me is the location setting for Reminders. There is no "Always" option like there is for other apps. Help!

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10), iPhone 6 Plus + iPad Air

Posted on Apr 10, 2015 8:04 AM

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NJL1971 Author

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Apr 17, 2015 8:50 AM in response to NJL1971

Resetting privacy settings then restarting the phone worked for me.

(I'm still having an issue where location-based reminders created with Siri do not work. Manually created reminders are working now.)

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NJL1971 Author

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Apr 17, 2015 8:50 AM in response to NJL1971

Regarding Siri and location-based reminders:

I've done some more digging. It seems that if

1) you also have an Exchange account on your phone (which I do)

2) you must have Reminders for the Exchange account turned on, but not set to default (which I didn't)

Very, very odd as to why you can't have Reminders for the Exchange account turned off, but when I enabled it, location-based reminders set using Siri seem to work again.

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Asava

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Jul 31, 2015 5:20 AM in response to NJL1971

Thanks. My problem was, that the option "location based" didn't show up anymore in reminders. I checked and found that the standard account for reminders had set itself to exchange account (I know I had not set it up this way, but I have experienced several times, where iOS somehow resets the standard account in mail, calendar, contacts, -- and now in reminders.

After reading your post the issue was found and solved. Thanks.

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