How to remove reminders linked to Calendar?

If you open the calendar app, at the bottom of the screen you’ll see the word calendars. If you tap that, all the calendars you’ve created or subscribed to will show up. One of those will say “reminders”. If you click to turn that one off, the reminders will go away.

Tap calendars at the bottom of the page and you can turn it off.

I have IOS 18 loaded on both my Mac and IPad and the way to remove the calendar reminders is the same.

I assume it will be the same for the phone.

Open the sidebar by clicking on the icon on the top left that looks like a keyboard.

Under “other”

Click on "Scheduled Reminders" and the pesky reminders will be gone!

Hope this works for you

I have tried turning off reminders in calendar by following the many posts in this thread. When I hit the Calendars button, the only option I have is "Show Completed Reminders" -- on or off. There is no way that I can see to turn off showing uncompleted reminders. Anybody know a way to turn off all reminders in the calendar app? BTW I have the non-beta, full 18.0 release if that makes a difference.

lp1756 wrote:

I only have the upgrade loaded on my iPhone and I don't know what you mean by sidebar. Maybe only the iPad has a sidebar. I did find the "Completed Reminders" option on the iPhone by clicking Calendars at the bottom of the Calendar app -- but that only turns of completed reminders, non all reminders which is what I want to do.

There is no Sidebar on an iPhone. There have been instructions in this thread for Macs and iPads as well.

Tap on the "Calendars" tab at the bottom of the screen. Scroll down until you see "Scheduled Reminders." Untick it.

Turning reminders off in the iPhone is easy by clicking on the “calendar” note at the bottom of the phone screen. However, how do you turn off reminders on the Mac calendar? It’s not in either the calendar or reminder settings.

Thank-you

A very clear detailed explanation— a big sigh of relief- the reminders instantly disappeared

I only have the upgrade loaded on my iPhone and I don't know what you mean by sidebar. Maybe only the iPad has a sidebar. I did find the "Completed Reminders" option on the iPhone by clicking Calendars at the bottom of the Calendar app -- but that only turns of completed reminders, non all reminders which is what I want to do.

Deanxyz wrote:

I do not want reminders to be linked to the calendar

They are linked to your calendar whether you like it or not if they have dates. However, you don't have to see them in Calendar if you don't want. Untick the "Scheduled Reminders" calendar. How you do that will depend on the device(s) you're using.

jamiedale wrote:

I DON’T like this change. Super distracting from calendar info when I have 198 reminders. And have yet to find understandable instructions on how to get Reminders off my Calendar app.

The instructions have been given several times in this thread. But here you go:

1. Open Calendar
2. Tap "Calendars" at the bottom center of the screen.
3. Untick "Schedule Reminders"

I'm not sure how to make it any simpler than that. However, it you have problems, please post back exactly where you get lost.

Adding on to this reply and thank you, they have gone away!!

It’s “Scheduled Reminders” in the Calendar List for me to check off— and waaaayyyyy down toward the bottom under “Other”.

Awesome. Thank you so much!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH! This has been driving me insane since I’ve updated my phone! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Thank you! That worked