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IOS 17 Reminders Has a New Trick I Really Like and It’s Not Grocery Shopping
No, it isn’t Groceries because that’s useless
It seems to me that every article I have read about IOS 17 Reminders has gushed over the new Grocery List automatic categorization. In my view, it’s a nice idea that doesn’t work very well and utterly fails to meet my needs for my weekly grocery shopping.
That’s me and my grumpy old self talking; you might be ecstatic to have this new feature.
What the Grocery List feature does have is Sections and Apple has made Sections available to all “normal” Reminder lists. That is, Sections are not currently available in Smart Lists like Today, which I first thought was annoying, but quickly realized that no, that’s fine.
So what are Sections? Here are the Sections that I created for my ever growing Reminder list.
If you open a List (remember, not a Smart List) and click on the circle with three dots at the upper right corner, you’ll see a choice for Sections. It will either say “Add Section” if you have no Sections defined or “Manage…
