You can use the iPhone’s reminder app to track everything from the grocery store list to the most important tasks of the day. After the recent iOS update, Apple has added tools to reminders to make it more powerful, such as delegating tasks to others and setting location-based reminders. Now there is another important update, which enables you to sort the list.
It might be a bit surprising to hear that it took until 2021 for Apple to include a list-sorting feature in Reminders, but late is always better than never. It’s one of the many new features in iOS 14.5 for iPhone, so you’ll need to update to iOS 14.5 if you want to start sorting your Reminders lists.
To start sorting Reminders lists, just open a single Reminders list, tap the ellipsis in the top right, then choose “Sort By.” Here, you’ll see five options to choose from
- Manual allows you to rearrange by hand, as usual.
- Due Date lets you choose from “Earliest First” (default) or “Latest First.”
- Creation Date lets you choose from “Oldest First” (default) or “Newest First.”
- Priority lets you choose from “Lowest First” (default) or “Highest First.”
- Title lets you choose from “Ascending” (default) or “Descending.”
Just tap any options, and Reminders will sort the list accordingly. However, it will default to the first sub-sorting option available. For example, if you choose “Title,” Reminders will always choose “Ascending” for you. If you want to sort by “Descending” titles, you’ll need to head back to “Sort By ” and choose from the sub-sorting options that appear.
If Apple makes suggestions for this feature, we hope to click again to see these sub-category options. It would be a bit cumbersome to “sort” the expiration dates in order of only the latest date, by creation date, by preference, or by descending headings.
