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/ Tuesday, 11 December 2018 / Published in Uncategorised

Dependence on technology might have lowered our ability to recall anniversaries or birthdays but often our mobile gadgets come handy at the time of setting reminders. Forgetting or missing out on someone’s birthday can be overcome if you are using an iPhone or a Mac.

If you own an iPhone 4S or 5 then it becomes easy to set reminders for birthday. Additionally, if your iPhone is already loaded with widgets and reminders then you may find buzzing off annoying reminders that keep reminding you about various alerts including, Facebook alerts and messages from your friend network. All this is easily manageable with your iOS device including setting important birthday alerts. You can even make settings to turn off unnecessary reminders that are no longer needed like that of random business contacts or birthday parties that you would rather like to give a miss. Whatever be your reason here are a few tips that will help you manage your birthday alerts on your iPhone.

Before we get started upon how the birthday reminders work and how to manage them you first need to ensure that you have the birthday details in your Contacts App. You can set an automatic birthday reminder by tweaking your calendar settings or turn off the reminder as per your convenience.

Apply the following steps for setting a Birthday reminder:

• Initially you need to launch the Calendar app on your iPhone by tapping on the Calendars located at the right side upper corner of your iPhone screen.

• Scroll down to the Calendars menu and locate Birthdays under Other.

• If you are looking forward to enable the option for birthday reminders on your iPhone then you need to ensure that your Birthdays calendar is check marked or is already a selected option. This will fetch you birthday reminders and send you alert message whenever a birthday is coming up.

• If you do not want to get any birthday alerts then simply tap Birthdays to unselect the option. Now you will not receive any reminders.

• If you want to connect your iPhone to Facebook then, Settings>Facebook> enter user name and password and then select the Birthdays option. This way you will be reminded of any arriving Birthdays occurring amongst your Facebook friends. Similarly, to turn off the feature you just need to unselect the Birthdays option.

• To make settings on your iPhone you need to go to Settings> Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars section> Calendars>Default Alert Times. This will reveal three options, Events, Birthdays and All-Day Events.

• Tap to select Birthdays and choose a time to remind you for an upcoming birthday. This time can be two days earlier, same day, a day earlier or a week earlier. If you do not want to set an alert for birthday then you can choose the none option.

• You can also pick a style to suit your birthday reminder alert. For example, you can choose from the given options of banners or pre-defined alerts for Calendar or Birthday reminders.

Now that you are already aware of the calendar and birthday synching options on your iPhone let us take a look at other tips that may come handy for your Mac. Let us move on to another section where you will learn about iCal and iCloud synchronizing option on your Mac to enable reminders and birthday alerts.

Some Tips for Mac Users

In addition to the tips given above you can also make other settings that include synchronizing option related to iCal for your Mac via iCloud. One thing that you need to keep in mind is that iCal has inbuilt settings for sending automatic alerts for birthdays on your Mac. For iCal synchronizing apply the following steps:

• Launch iCal on your Mac> iCal Menu>Preferences> Alerts
• Go to the pull down menu and then choose the option from Calendar Accounts that contain options like Google, Yahoo, iCloud, etc. choose iCloud option
• Now you need to choose settings for receiving automatic alerts for Birthdays by selecting Birthdays

Following the above-mentioned tips will help you set birthday reminders on your iPhone and Mac.

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Frequent hand washing is one of the best ways to protect yourself against harmful germs. So why not make this a habit and set hourly reminders on your iPhone and Mac. Although Apple Watch offers a quick solution with some third-party reminder apps, you might not wear your smartwatch while working from home. Plus, you’re probably deeply engrossed in some task or the other, which is why digital reminders can come to your rescue and help keep you healthy. So let’s check out the steps involved.

How to Set Hourly Reminders on iPhone and iPad

Open Reminders app on your iPhone or iPad
If you have created several lists of reminders, choose anyone.
On my iPhone, I have four lists: Family, Office, Friends, and Relatives. I have selected Family.
Next, tap on New Reminder from the bottom left corner.
Give a suitable name to this reminder; an obvious choice is Wash Hands
Now tap on (i) next to the reminder
Turn on ‘Remind me on a day’.
You can now see ‘Remind me at a time’ option; you need to toggle this switch ON. And, then tap on ‘Repeat’
Select ‘Hourly’ → Tap on Done button from the top right corner.

You have successfully set an hourly reminder on your iOS device. From now on, your device will remind you to wash your hands every hour.

Use Siri to Set Up an Hourly Reminder on iOS Device

In case you don’t want to run through this manual method, you can invoke Siri to quickly set a reminder on your iOS device.

I hope you have activated Hey Siri on your device.

Iphone Reminders Tutorial

Now, use this single command: Hey Siri, remind me to wash hands every hour starting at 12 o’clock. Alternatively, you can ask: Hey Siri, set a reminder to wash hands every hour.

Siri will set an hourly reminder by picking up a suitable time.

How to Set Up a Recurring Reminder on Mac

Open Reminders app on your Mac.
Now, Select the list and click on the plus icon to add a new reminder.
Fill in the name of reminder
Next, Click on (i).
Check On a Day.
Then check At a Time.
Click Repeat → Custom.
Click Frequency and choose Hourly. Make sure it is 1 for hourly reminder. Click OK.
Click on (i) or anywhere at the blank space in Reminder’s app. You will see the word ‘Hourly’ below the reminder.

Summing up…

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I think using Siri is a better way to quickly set hourly reminders on your Apple devices. Once you have done it successfully, keep washing your hands every hour to stay healthy.

You may also check out this post How to Use Reminders App on iPhone and iPad

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