The Mac version of Reminders is more capable than the iOS version-not that it’s a high bar-and notably, it does allow some sorting. Single List Sorting in Reminders in macOSĪlthough Reminders predates the so-called “Marzipan” apps that Apple ported from iOS to macOS in macOS 10.14 Mojave (News, Home, Voice Memos, and Stocks), we should have realized that it foreshadowed just how lousy those apps would be. It’s true-if you never put more than about ten items in a Reminders list, you can probably see them all on one screen without scrolling. The only justification I can imagine is that Apple doesn’t think anyone will use Reminders to store so many items that sorting would become useful. In the Settings app, both Contacts and Notes offer sort options, and when you’re in the Music app’s Library, you can sort within the lists of albums, playlists, and songs. It’s not as though the concept of sorting is foreign to iOS. When in a list, you can tap Edit and then drag reminders around by their handles to rearrange them. And even that feature doesn’t merit a mention in Apple’s documentation of Reminders. In the iOS version of Reminders, eight major updates later, you still cannot sort Reminders lists in any way other than manually. Unfortunately, when it comes to sorting list items in Reminders, “simple” seems to mean “embarrassingly underpowered.” Only Manual Sorting in Reminders in iOS It was a simple app then, and it has remained so across years of iOS and macOS updates.
Reminders originated with iOS 5 and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, when Apple split iCal into Calendar and Reminders. But it’s time for another one because I’ve just figured out one of the reasons that Apple’s Reminders app has been getting on my nerves lately: the silly thing still can’t sort list items to save its life. I’ve been remiss in keeping up with my Bad Apple column, which exists to document aspects of the Apple experience that are incontrovertibly wrong and have an obvious solution.
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