How to create location-based reminders on iPhone
Apple’s iPhones can make sure you’ll remember to get things done when you are in the right place at the right time.
Why would you use location-based alerts?
With a little preparatory work, you can use this feature to help you get lots of different things done, for example:
- Remind me to pick up milk when I leave the office
- Remind me to drop into the doctor’s to pick up my prescription.
- Remind me to call Mum when I leave the gym
If you use the Find My Friend app, you can even set a reminder that tells you to call your chum once they return to their home.
Setting up your iPhone for location-based alerts
To make location-based reminders more effective you should open your Contacts app and create new contacts (or edit existing ones) with additional information. By this I mean you may want to create and name address items such as Office, Gym, Doctor. Here’s how to do this: