Solution: macOS Migration Assistant messing up Reminders

Got my new M4 Max MBP14 yesterday. Migration from my old MPB14 went smoothly, everything worked, with one exception: All Reminders were gone. Reminders just displayed a blank frame with nothing in it at all: No left panel with lists or tags, no reminders. Everything just white.

I worked on this for 24 hours and finally found a solution:

  • Quit the Reminders app
  • Settings → iCloud → See All → Turn off Reminders
  • Go to ~/Library/Reminders/Group Containers, then rename group.com.apple.reminders or delete it (and then empty the trash)
  • Activity Monitor → Force Quit → remindd
  • Back in Settings, re-enable Reminders
  • Start the Reminders app → Voila!

Kudos to this discussion on Reddit to get me on the right track.

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