I have updated my iPhone to iOS 26.2
I have been trying to get reminders to work as described but will not,work.
No where do I see “ urgent” to toggle on.
can someone help?
thanks.
iPhone 15 Pro, iOS 26
turkey101 wrote:
I have come to the same conclusion myself, but I still find it illogical.
It's the way things have worked for quite some time. Lists that sync to iCloud get more features than lists that don't. It's not new.
<old man rant mode on> Why would the "Urgent" alarm feature be unavailable just because the list is not synced through the cloud? (A rhetorical question unless someone has an actual answer).
You have the actual answer. And it's documented.
Add details in Reminders on iPhone - Apple Support
I don't know what the reason is. I suspect there's a good one, though.
And as shown in my screenshots, it's not just the Urgent toggle... those un-synced reminders can't use Tags and other Reminder features.
That's correct. Lists that don't sync to iCloud don't have all the feature of the ones that do.
That's OK, I'll cope! 😁 Thanks everyone for trying to help. I'll switch to synced Reminder Lists only.
Good call. That also means that, should something happen to your phone that renders it unusable or inaccessible, you'll still have your reminders.
its definitely an issue. When i go to add a new reminder I can set the toggle. But for me when I start typing out the name of the reminder, the toggle vanishes?
A discussion in another forum mentioned the type of list. They found that the Urgent feature shows for list of type Groceries (instead of the default type Standard.)
Well I think I finally solved the riddle of the new reminders app.
I signed out of apple cloud and then signed back in. This worked for me and the new " Urgent" toggle is there and works just fine.
YEAH
still not working for me , signed out and back in to icloud , made sure remiders in icloud is ticked . rebooted phone , uninstalled and reinstalled app on phone (17pro) and ipad , nothing changes , im pretty forgetful so was really excited by this long awaited improvement , i don't see the .mac or local or any setting anywhere to set the list to sync with the icloud or locally .
Ok can confirm. You need to sign out of iCloud then sign back in for this to work. Completely stupid but I’ve tried it and it works.
Reminders 'urgent' toggle missing after iOS 26.2
