Turn Emails, Webpages, and Notes into Reminders with Apple Intelligence

What Apple Intelligence Brings to Reminders

Apple Intelligence enhances the Reminders app by allowing you to turn emails, webpages, and notes into actionable tasks. When you share text with Reminders, Apple Intelligence scans it for key details such as actions, dates, quantities, and instructions. This feature helps speed up the task capture process, especially when tasks are buried within lengthy content like emails or articles.

Instead of skimming through emails or articles and promising to revisit them later, you can now highlight relevant text and send it directly to Reminders. The system then presents task suggestions for review, allowing you to add only what’s needed to your list. While it doesn’t replace manual reminder creation, it significantly reduces the friction of turning information into something actionable.

How Apple Intelligence Analyzes Shared Text

Apple Intelligence identifies patterns in shared text that indicate tasks or requirements. It looks for phrasing that implies actions, deadlines, quantities, or instructions—common features of reminders.

This system works best with structured or semi-structured text, such as recipes, project notes, technical instructions, and emails containing lists of requests. For instance, bullet points or instruction-style writing will convert cleanly into tasks.

While the system is highly efficient with longer content, it may generate multiple suggestions for longer texts, saving time on batch task creation. However, casual or conversational writing may produce less reliable results. Clear, structured text improves accuracy.

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Supported Devices and Setup

Apple Intelligence requires Apple Silicon hardware, meaning it’s available on newer iPhones, iPads, and Macs. This feature utilizes on-device processing for text analysis, ensuring privacy and speed.

To enable Apple Intelligence on your device:

1. Open Settings and select “Apple Intelligence and Siri.”
2. Turn on the Apple Intelligence features you wish to use.

Once enabled, Apple Intelligence will automatically analyze text and suggest reminders without needing further activation within the Reminders app.

How to Create Reminders on iPhone and iPad

Creating reminders from text on iPhone and iPad is simple:

1. Open an email, webpage, or note containing relevant information.
2. Highlight the text you want to track.
3. Tap the Share button above the selection.
4. Select Reminders from the share sheet.
5. Review the suggested tasks and add them to a list.

If the selected text is long, Apple Intelligence will generate multiple suggestions for tasks. Recipes, lists, or numbered steps will typically convert cleanly. After reviewing, you can organize the tasks within the Reminders app.

How to Create Reminders on Mac

The process for creating reminders from text on Mac mirrors the iPhone and iPad method:

1. Open the desired document, webpage, or email.
2. Highlight the relevant text.
3. Right-click or use the Share button in the toolbar.
4. Choose Reminders from the menu.
5. Review and add the suggested tasks.

The Mac interface often groups larger selections into sections, making it easier to manage multiple reminders at once.

Best Use Cases for Apple Intelligence

Apple Intelligence excels when a single source contains several action items. For example, long emails with multiple requests can be transformed into separate tasks in one step. This is far quicker than manually retyping or tracking items in different apps.

Recipes, travel plans, and project notes convert well, as these formats resemble lists. Apple Intelligence is perfect for extracting multiple tasks at once, especially when switching between apps would slow things down.

For simple one-off reminders, the time savings may be minimal. However, the feature shines when there’s a constant influx of tasks that need organization.

Tips for Better Results

For optimal results, highlight only the most relevant portion of text. This provides Apple Intelligence with clearer signals and improves the accuracy of task suggestions. Always review the suggestions before adding them to ensure the list stays organized.

Editing titles after import can also improve readability, especially if the source text uses shorthand or internal jargon. As your reminder lists grow, sections, folders, and tags will become increasingly useful for long-term organization.

Supported Languages

Apple Intelligence is currently available in the following languages:

• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Japanese
• Korean
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Danish
• Dutch
• Norwegian
• Swedish
• Turkish
• Vietnamese

Apple Intelligence enhances the Reminders app, making it easier to capture tasks from emails, webpages, and notes. This automation is especially helpful when organizing tasks from longer texts.