What's New in Reminders in iOS 18: Calendar Integration & More

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Nice to see the calendar integration finally. Maybe I can drop BusyCal now. Though I kinda like BusyCal.

It is hard to feel excited about things like this though. It should have been in there a long time ago anyways.

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Hey, better late than never. :slightly_smiling_face:

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True. The reality is I’ll probably just use the Calendar app now because of this and I’ll be happy with the small change and the simplification of what’s on my phone and iPad.

So yay!

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@Bmosbacker Can you drop the Freeform YouTube review next :joy: Thank you for sourcing these videos, it’s so useful to see these things in the forum where we can talk about them!

I suspect I won’t renew BusyCal at some point. I only switched to it because iCal was annoying me, not because I had a specific use case that iCal wasn’t serving. With Apple making improvements and integrating with Reminders it opens up new possibilities.

Also I already have one use that iCal serves that BusyCal doesn’t - in iCal if you create an event that iCal recognises, it will give you the option to prefill the info and assign it to the right calendar. BusyCal doesn’t do this, so I often create events in iCal even though I use BusyCal for viewing my calendar.

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You have only to ask. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Will the Calendar app finally have decent natural language input? That’s the main thing keeping me on Fantastical, along with the excellent UI.

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I don’t know why that’s been ignored by Apple. Both Fantastical and BusyCal do it well, and apparently it works well when adding through Siri. Not sure why I can’t just type it in.

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There’s some natural language processing in Calendar already. You can type things like “Dinner Wednesday at 7pm” and Calendar will create it. (It’s not as good as Fantastical, but it is something.)

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Hmm….I just tried that earlier today and didn’t get anything. I’ll have to try again later to see if maybe I just worded it wrong.

Update: It works just like you said on MacOS, but I didn’t get it to work on my iPad. For some reason that Quick Entry option isn’t available.

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Same here, this is the first time I’ve installed a beta OS from Apple in 21 years on all my computing devices and it’s only just for that feature, AI be damned.