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Frequently Asked Questions

Why am I not getting notifications?

Why do I keep getting alerts for the same task?

That’s Due Something doing its job — overdue tasks are re-notified until you complete them, so nothing slips through. You’re in control of how persistent it is:

What does Emergent mean?

It’s a step above flagged, for the few things that genuinely can’t wait. Turn it on in the task editor — it’s offered once a task has a due date — and the task shows a red exclamation mark in its row.

What is Create Alarm?

A real alarm — the kind that rings through Silent mode and Focus, with the system alarm sound and a Stop button — for the few tasks a notification isn’t enough for.

It’s in the task editor, just below Emergent, and appears only when a task has a Date, a Time, and Emergent all turned on. Those three together are what makes an alarm appropriate, so it can’t be set by accident.

Alarms are on iPhone and iPad. Your choice is remembered on the Mac and syncs, but macOS has no alarm to set.

My alarm didn’t go off

Can I snooze a task until I get somewhere?

Yes. On an overdue task, open the snooze menu and choose Snooze Location, then Until I Arrive or Until I Leave, and pick a saved place. The task moves to a Waiting for Location section in Agenda and stays quiet until you get there, then becomes due right away.

Can I snooze until a place from a notification?

Yes. In Settings → Snooze → More Options → Location-Based, turn on Show in Notifications and choose one place and direction. That option then appears on every reminder notification and the Lock Screen, above Mark Complete.

Can I snooze a task to a specific date or time?

Yes. Open the snooze menu and choose New Date/Time, below Location. Set a date, a time, or both:

It works on a selection too: select tasks in Agenda, tap the alarm icon, and choose New Date/Time. Leaving one half out is what makes this useful in bulk — pick a time only, and ten tasks spread across the week each move to that hour on their own day.

A task with a date but no time stays that way when you move it to another date; choosing a time is what gives it one. Turn the option off under Settings → Snooze → More Options → Snooze to Date/Time.

Why isn’t my location reminder triggering?

Location reminders rely on Apple’s Core Location services, which need permission to work reliably:

Does a location alert change when a task is due?

Yes. A task with a location alert comes due at its due date or when you reach the place, whichever happens first. Arriving early makes it due there and then; if you never go, the original due date still stands. Nothing is lost either way.

This is different from Snooze Location above, where a task has no due moment at all until the place — or its safety net — wakes it.

How do I check my notifications are working?

Settings → Notifications → Notification Status answers it in one place. It reads what’s actually set up on your device rather than what the app intended, so what you see is what will happen:

If the system won’t show alerts at all — notifications turned off, never allowed, delivered quietly, or allowed with Banners and the Lock Screen switched off — a warning at the top of that screen says which, and takes you to the setting that fixes it.

If I travel, do my alerts move?

A task with a time doesn’t move. Due at 3:00 PM means that exact moment wherever you are, so flying somewhere doesn’t shift it forward or back by the time difference.

Tasks with a date but no time work the other way, because your Default Due Time is a time of day rather than a fixed moment. Those follow the clock where you are — you’ll get them at 8:00 AM local — from the next time you open the app after landing. The Daily Briefing is the same kind of thing, and follows the local clock straight away.

What is the Daily Briefing?

One notification each morning at your Default Due Time listing the tasks due that day and how many are overdue. It’s skipped on days when nothing is due or overdue. Turn it off in Settings → Notifications → Daily Briefing.

Where does tapping a notification take me?

To Agenda, with the task near the top. Tapping the body of an alert never completes or changes anything — use the notification’s own buttons to snooze or complete.

What does the number on the app icon count?

Your choice, in Settings → Look & Feel → Icon Badge:

All three rise and fall as you add and complete tasks. A task waiting on a place isn’t counted by any of them, because it has no due moment until the place wakes it.

Can I use Due Something in light or dark mode?

Yes — Settings → Look & Feel → Appearance:

The change takes effect straight away, including on anything already open. It’s one of the settings that can be kept the same on all your devices — see Can I choose what syncs?

Can I change the app icon?

Yes — Settings → Look & Feel → App Icon. Besides the default there are Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Purple, and Multicolor. The choice belongs to each device rather than syncing, so your iPhone and iPad can differ.

What are the small badges on list icons?

They mark what kind of list it is, in the lists drawer (and the Mac sidebar):

Turn a list’s badge on or off with List Type Icon in its List Info (it only appears when the list has a badge to show). It starts on for synced calendars and view-only lists, and turning on Shared List turns it on; for the rest it starts off.

Can I change Agenda’s icon?

No — it’s a calendar page showing today’s date, in the drawer, the widget, and on Apple Watch, and turns over at midnight. You can still rename Agenda and change its color in its List Info.

Agenda used to be called Scheduled. If you renamed it yourself, your name is kept.

Voice dictation isn’t working

Voice dictation uses Apple’s Speech Recognition, which needs both microphone and speech recognition permissions:

Can I go straight from one task to another?

Yes. With a task open, tap another one in the list behind it and Due Something saves the first and opens the second in its place. The task you’re editing is highlighted in the list, so you can see where you are.

The list stays live while the editor is open — you can scroll it to find what you want next.

If the first task can’t be saved — an empty title, a permission still to grant, or a conflict to review — it stays open so nothing is lost. A task you haven’t changed, or one in a list you can only read, switches without writing anything.

How do I attach a photo or document to a task?

Tap the paperclip next to the Notes field in the task editor — you can take a photo, scan a document, pick from your photo library, choose a file, or make a drawing. Taking photos or scanning needs camera permission (Settings → Due Something → Camera). Picking from your library uses Apple’s photo picker, which only shares the photos you select — Due Something never sees your library. Files up to 25 MB can be attached. Tap an attachment to view it full-screen or mark it up. A task with attachments shows a small paperclip in its row, with a count when there’s more than one.

Do attachments sync between my devices?

Yes. Photos, scans, drawings, and files you attach on one device appear on your others through your iCloud account. Until a file has finished downloading, the attachment shows a cloud icon and “Waiting for iCloud” — tap it to try again if it’s taking a while. Attachments count toward your iCloud storage; if it’s full, new attachments stay on the device where you added them until space is freed, and Due Something tells you once.

Can I add attachments on my Mac?

Yes. In the task editor, tap the paperclip next to Notes to add a photo from your library or choose a file. Take Photo, Scan Document, and Drawing are available on iPhone and iPad only. On the Mac, clicking an attachment opens it in its default app, such as Preview.

Can I share or print a task?

Yes. The share button in the task editor turns a task into a PDF — its title, due date, list, location, repeat, marks, link, notes, and a page for each attachment. From there you can send it, save it to Files, or print it.

You can do it for several tasks at once too: select them in a list, tap the share icon, and choose Export as Separate PDFs or Export as One PDF, which adds a cover page listing them all.

What is the Mac menu bar item?

A small panel that lives in your menu bar, so Due Something is one click away without switching apps. The icon shows your overdue count, and clicking it opens Agenda in miniature — the same grouping, with snooze and complete on each task, and a field at the top for adding one. A task you complete there stays crossed out for a few seconds, as it does in Agenda, so you can uncheck it.

All of it is under Settings → Mac Only:

Can I narrow down what a list shows?

Yes, in any of them. Open the options menu (the … button) and choose Filter. Switch on the marks you want to see — Repeating Task, Calendar, Links, Flagged, Emergent, Location, or Alarm — and the list updates behind as you go; the menu stays open while you pick. Pick more than one to widen the net. While any filter is on, a filter button sits beside … so you can change them in one tap. Clear All turns them all off and puts the button away (it reads Close when none are on). On a Mac, Filter is a submenu that closes after each pick. Each matches the mark shown on a task’s row, so what you filter by is what you can see.

This works in Agenda, in any of your own lists, in All, in Completed, and in Recently Deleted. Deleted tasks are matched on what was saved with them when they were deleted, and past completions in Completed on the marks the task had when it was completed. Completions from before version 1.4 only match Repeating Task.

Turn them all off to go back to everything. Switching lists clears them.

What happens when I check off a task?

It stays where it is, crossed out, for about five seconds — the same time an Undo lasts — and then leaves the list. Uncheck it before then and it’s as if you never checked it. Leaving the list moves it along straight away. Checking off several in a row keeps them all in place until you stop, so nothing shifts under your finger.

This is the same in every list: Agenda, your own lists, All, Flagged, Alarms, Location, smart lists you’ve made, and the Mac menu bar panel. With VoiceOver or Switch Control on, crossed-out tasks stay until you leave the list, so there’s time to reach them.

A repeating task’s next date appears straight away, beside the crossed-out one. Unchecking the crossed-out one takes the new date away again.

Can I see when I last completed a repeating task?

Yes. Open the task: Last Completed, just under Repeat, shows when you last finished it. Tap it for every time it’s been completed and how many times that is.

Past completions also appear in Completed among your other finished tasks, in date order, with a small repeat symbol. A list with Show Completed on shows its own, and so does a smart list you’ve made that includes completed tasks. Tap one to see its details, or swipe it to remove it from your history — which also takes it out of the Due Something Report — with an Undo in case you didn’t mean to. Your history syncs across your devices.

Completions from before version 1.4, or made in Apple’s Reminders app, are matched to a task by its title and list, so renaming a task leaves its earlier completions out of Last Completed.

Can I change several tasks at once?

Yes. Open the options menu (the … button) in a list, in Agenda, or in Completed, and choose Select. Tap the tasks you want and a bar appears at the bottom with what you can do to them:

Snoozing a task that has no date gives it one — the time you snooze it to. Marking an undated task Emergent gives it the current date and time, since Emergent only means anything against a deadline. A task that already has a date keeps it.

The bar shows five buttons at a time; if you have more than that turned on, slide it sideways to reach the rest.

Choose which buttons appear at all in Settings → Tasks & Lists → Batch Select Options. Turn one off and it leaves every bar that had it. With all of a list’s buttons off, Select leaves that list’s menu, since there’d be nothing to do with a selection.

Tap Edit on that screen to drag the buttons into the order you want instead; the checkmark saves it. The order you set is used in every selection bar, whichever way round it’s drawn.

Tap the ✕ on the bar to finish. On iPad and Mac, the sidebar button in the top corner turns into an ✕ while you’re selecting, which does the same. With a keyboard, ⌘⇧K completes the selection and ⌘⌫ deletes it. Completing or deleting a selection can be undone from the toast that follows.

Can I change what swiping a task does?

Yes — Settings → Tasks & Lists → Swipe Actions, or Customize → Swipe Actions in any list’s options menu. Each direction has three positions, and you can put Complete, Flag, Emergent, Location, Snooze, Share, Move, or Delete in any of them, or leave a position empty. The one nearest the row’s edge is what a full swipe does.

Completed and Recently Deleted have their own swipes, set on the same screen: two positions each way, each one Delete, Restore, or empty. They start with Delete on one side and Restore on the other. A past completion can’t be restored, so it only offers Delete.

While a row’s swipe buttons are showing, the row is highlighted, so it’s clear which task they belong to.

Can I turn my calendar events into tasks?

Yes, two ways. Go to Settings → Calendar Connect → Import/Sync and pick a calendar, then under What to Import? choose:

Can I keep a calendar in sync with a list?

Yes — choose Sync Entire Calendar after picking the calendar. Set how far ahead to sync (3 months, 6 months, or a year), how often to refresh (daily, weekly, or monthly), and Notify Earlier if you want tasks due a little before their events. Edit List Info sets the new list’s name, color, and icon. Then tap Sync Calendar.

Each refresh adds new events, updates the titles, notes, links, and dates you haven’t changed yourself, and moves tasks whose events were deleted to Recently Deleted. Your own edits to a task are kept. Refreshes happen when the app runs or gets background time after the interval you chose; use Refresh Now in the list’s List Info to refresh straight away.

As a safeguard, if a refresh would remove more than half of a list’s tasks at once (at least 5), it asks first — Remove sends them to Recently Deleted, Keep leaves them as ordinary tasks. A device whose calendar is still downloading, such as a new iPhone, never removes anything on its own. Renaming the calendar in the Calendar app keeps it syncing.

The sync settings and which event each task came from sync through iCloud, so all your devices show the same tasks.

Which calendars can I import from?

Settings → Calendar Connect → My Calendars lists every calendar on the device with a switch. Switch one off and it stays off the import screen. This choice is per-device, because calendars aren’t identified the same way across devices.

Why does Due Something ask for Calendar access?

Only for Calendar Connect — reading events so you can import or sync them, and writing an event when you use Add to Calendar on a task or add a task to a list synced with a calendar you can write to. Decline it and everything else in the app works exactly as before.

How far ahead do the events go?

Six months by default. Change it under Import Options → Look Ahead, anywhere from one month to a year. Events that have already passed are never offered. A synced calendar has its own setting, How far in advance to sync, in its list’s List Info.

What happens to a monthly task on the 31st?

When you set a task to repeat monthly on the 29th, 30th, or 31st, Due Something asks what to do in a month that hasn’t got that date, under If Day Is Missing:

New repeats use Last Day. Tasks you set up before this choice existed keep behaving as they did, and a task already set to the last day of the month is unchanged.

A repeat you type into the title follows the same rule: typed in September, a monthly repeat on the 31st starts on September 30 rather than waiting for October 31.

The choice travels with the task, so it holds in Reminders, on your other devices, and if the task is archived and restored.

A repeating event became a repeating task. Can I get just one date?

Copy Repeat Rule (in Import Options, on by default) gives a repeating event a repeating task. To take a single date instead, tap the event to expand it and pick the occurrence you want. If an event repeats in a way the app can’t express, importing it makes a one-off task rather than a wrong repeat.

An event I imported isn’t in the list any more

Hide Imported (in Import Options, on by default) leaves out events you’ve already imported, so the list stays useful on your next visit. Switch it off to see them again, marked as imported.

Can an imported task come due before the event starts?

Turn on Notify Earlier in Import Options, then set Move Up Due Time By — anything from 1 minute to 60 hours. The task falls due that far ahead of the event, so there’s time to act on it. Your calendar isn’t touched.

How do I know a task is connected to a calendar?

A green calendar icon appears next to the task’s title, on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. It means one of two things:

You can show only these tasks in any list — see Can I narrow down what a list shows?

Can I put a task on my calendar?

Yes. Add to Calendar in the task editor writes the task out as a calendar event, repeats included. Settings → Calendar Connect → Default Event Duration sets how long that event runs when the task has no end time. A task with no time of day becomes an all-day event.

Reminders aren’t syncing across my devices

Due Something reads and writes directly to Apple’s Reminders app, so your tasks and lists sync through Apple’s iCloud.

Everything Due Something adds on top of Reminders — flags, attachments, snooze settings, list icons, and more — syncs separately; see What does iCloud Sync keep in step? below.

What does iCloud Sync keep in step?

Your tasks and lists already sync through Apple Reminders. Due Something’s own extras sync through your iCloud account as well, on every device signed in to the same Apple Account:

It’s on automatically when you’re signed in to iCloud. Changes usually arrive on your other devices within a few seconds while they’re awake, or the next time they open. When an update starts syncing something new, each device catches up on it by itself the first time it runs the new version — so something you set before updating still reaches your other devices. Everything is stored in your private iCloud account and end-to-end encrypted — we have no access to it.

Can I choose what syncs?

Yes. Go to Settings → iCloud Sync.

You can also switch Due Something off entirely under Settings → [Your Name] → iCloud → Saved to iCloud on iPhone and iPad, or System Settings → [Your Name] → iCloud → Saved to iCloud on the Mac. The app keeps working from its local data.

A list shared with me is marked view only

If someone shares a list with you as view only, Due Something shows its tasks with a lock next to the list name, and leaves the list out of the choices for new tasks. You can still change its tasks on your device, but those changes stay there — iCloud won’t accept them for a list you can’t edit — so the app warns you the first time. Ask the list’s owner for edit access if you need to make changes that everyone sees.

My list settings reset after I renamed a list

Due Something keeps a list’s icon, sort, and visibility with the list by its name, and carries them over when you rename it — in Due Something, in Reminders, or on another device. The one case it can’t tell apart is two lists with the same name in the same account; the second one keeps its settings on each device separately. Give them different names to sync both.

What is the Shelf?

The group at the very top of the sidebar, holding Agenda to begin with. Put the lists and smart lists you use constantly on it and they stay above everything else.

Can I make a template out of a list?

Yes. Choose Create Template from a list’s options menu and it saves the list’s name, color, icon, and the tasks in it — their titles, notes, links, priority, and flags. Dates, alarms, and locations aren’t part of a template, since those belong to the occasion rather than the shape of the list.

To use one, start a new list and pick the template under List Type; the tasks arrive with it.

Manage them in Settings → Tasks & Lists → List Templates. You can rename a template’s tasks, add and remove them, drag them into a different order, and duplicate one. Templates sync across your devices.

A template is a snapshot, not a link — changing the list it came from doesn’t change the template, and using a template doesn’t tie the new list to it.

Can Due Something remind me to review a list?

Yes. Open List Info (or set it while creating the list), and under Review List turn on Review Reminder. Choose a time and how often — daily, weekly on the days you pick, or monthly on a date.

It works for your own lists and for Agenda, Completed, Recently Deleted, and smart lists you’ve made.

For a monthly review on the 29th, 30th, or 31st, you’re asked what should happen in a month without that date: Last Day uses the last day the month does have, and Skip Month passes it over. New reminders use Last Day unless you change it.

Review reminders sync across your devices through iCloud, along with when you last marked each list reviewed. The time you choose is read in each device’s own time zone, so a 9:00 AM review reminds you at 9:00 AM wherever you are.

Can I show two lists at once?

Yes, on iPad, Mac, and iPhone Duo. Open a list’s options menu (the … button) and choose Open Multi-List, then pick the second list. They sit side by side in landscape and one above the other in portrait.

Rotating, folding, or resizing the window keeps both lists. If the window becomes too small for two, the one you were working in stays and the other closes.

Can I save a pair of lists?

Yes. With two lists open, choose Saved Layouts → Save Current Layout from the options menu and give it a name. It remembers both lists and which one you were working in.

Reopen it any time from Multi-List → Saved Layouts. You can rename them, drag them into the order you want, and delete ones you’ve finished with.

If a list in a saved layout has since been deleted, opening it asks you which list to use instead rather than quietly picking one.

Layouts sync across your devices.

Can I make my own Smart List?

Yes. Start a new list as usual, then turn on Smart List under the name. That turns it into a saved view — it looks through the tasks you already have rather than becoming somewhere tasks live, so nothing is copied or duplicated.

Tap Edit Rules to say what it should show:

Choose whether a task has to match every rule or just any of them. You can also give it an icon and a color, sort it by due date or title, hide its header, and pick which real list new tasks added from it should go to.

Smart lists of your own sit in the sidebar with everything else — reorder them, put them on the Shelf, hide them, or open one in Multi-List. They sync across your devices.

Deleting one removes the view, never the tasks in it.

What are sublists?

Headings inside a list that group its tasks — say, Produce and Dairy inside Groceries. Each one can be collapsed with a tap on its heading, so a long list stays manageable.

Sublists sync across your devices — their names, icons, order, and which tasks are in each. Whether a sublist is collapsed is up to each device.

Can I drag tasks to reorder or move them?

Yes. Press and hold a task until it lifts, then drag it, on iPhone and iPad:

Dropping a task at a particular spot switches the list to Manual sort so the order you chose sticks; sublists stay where they were. A list synced with a calendar keeps its date order, so a task dropped there goes where its date puts it. Read-only lists don’t accept drops, and dragging is off while you’re selecting tasks or reordering.

On the Mac, drag tasks within a list using the Mac’s own row dragging, or between the two lists in Multi-List.

How do I reorder my lists?

Open the lists drawer and tap Edit at the bottom, then drag rows into the order you want and tap Done. Rows can go anywhere — smart lists and your own lists can be mixed in whatever order suits you. The Mac sidebar has the same Edit button.

While you’re editing:

How do I make a new list on iPad?

Open the lists drawer and tap ＋ List at the bottom — the same on iPhone, iPhone Duo, and in the Mac sidebar.

Can the lists drawer close after I pick a list?

Yes. On iPad and on iPhone Duo’s inner display, the drawer stays open after you pick a list, so you can move between lists quickly. Tap the list you’re already in, or tap outside the drawer, to close it. If you’d rather it close every time, turn on Settings → Tasks & Lists → Auto Close Drawer. The setting is per device. On iPhone and on Duo’s front display the drawer always closes after a pick; on Duo the setting still appears there and applies when you unfold.

Can I give a list its own color?

Yes — Customize in any list’s options menu. Header Color colors the large title at the top, and List Color colors the list itself; each is remembered per list and you can set either, both, or neither. Hide Header lives in the same place.

It’s available in your own lists, in Agenda, Completed, Recently Deleted, and smart lists you’ve made. In lists that gather tasks from several places, a small dot in each task’s source color shows where it came from.

These are display choices on the device you make them on; they don’t change the list in Reminders.

Can I hide a list’s name at the top of the screen?

Yes — Customize → Hide Header in any list’s options menu, including Agenda and Recently Deleted. The list still works exactly the same; only the large title is hidden.

Why does the app ask for Contacts access?

This is entirely optional. It’s only used to make it faster to set a location reminder from a contact’s saved address. If you don’t use that feature, you can leave Contacts access off and everything else in the app will work normally.

I deleted a reminder by accident

Open Due Something and check the Recently Deleted list — deleted reminders are kept there for 30 days before being permanently removed, so you should be able to restore it. Recently Deleted syncs, so a task deleted on your iPhone can be restored from your Mac, and restoring or permanently deleting it on one device removes it from the list on the others.

How do snooze suggestions work?

Settings → Snooze → Select Mode decides what you’re offered when you snooze:

A snooze of days, weeks, or months moves the task by the calendar, so a 1-day snooze keeps the same clock time even across a daylight-saving change, and 1 month from January 31 lands on the last day of February.

Adaptive learns from your own past snooze choices using a small model that runs on your device. The history it learns from — when you snoozed and for how long — syncs between your devices through your iCloud account, end-to-end encrypted, so suggestions are the same everywhere. Nothing is sent to us. Turn it off or clear the history in Settings → Snooze.

Two more ways to snooze sit under More Options in the same section: Smart Presets (Later Today, This Evening, Tomorrow Morning, This Weekend, Next Week) and Location-Based. Snooze to Date/Time is there too — see Can I snooze a task to a specific date or time?

What is the Due Something Report?

A snapshot of how you’re doing: what’s open and overdue, what you completed recently, your streak, and how you snooze. It’s computed on the spot from your own data and nothing is stored or sent anywhere. Find it in Settings → Due Something Report.

Does Due Something require an account?

No. Due Something doesn’t use accounts, logins, or developer-operated servers. Everything runs through Apple’s own frameworks (Reminders, iCloud, Calendar, Location, Speech Recognition) directly on your device and in your own iCloud account.

How do I use the widget?

Long-press your Home Screen, tap ＋, and search for Due Something. Long-press the widget and choose Edit Widget to pick which list it shows. Tapping a task’s circle completes it right from the widget; the ＋ in the widget’s corner starts a new task. One note: when you complete a repeating task from the widget, its next occurrence appears the next time you open the app.

Can I snooze from the widget?

Yes. Overdue tasks in the Home Screen widget show a snooze button. It pushes the task back by the duration in Settings → Widgets → Snooze Duration (10 minutes unless you change it).

How do I put Due Something on my Lock Screen?

Long-press the Lock Screen, tap Customize, tap the widget area, and choose Due Something. There are three sizes: a circle showing your overdue count, a rectangle showing your next tasks, and a single line above the clock. Each can be set to any list.

What is the overdue Live Activity?

When something is overdue, your oldest overdue task can appear on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island with a count of how many more are overdue, plus Snooze and Complete buttons. It’s off until you turn it on in Settings → Widgets → Live Activities. Once on, it starts the next time you open the app while something is overdue, and ends when nothing is. Live Activities end on their own after eight hours; opening the app starts a fresh one.

Can I add a task from Control Center?

Yes. Open Control Center, tap ＋ in the top corner, tap Add a Control, and search for Due Something. The button opens the app straight to a new task. It also works as a Lock Screen button and with the Action button.

Is there an Apple Watch app?

Yes. It shows your Agenda tasks grouped the same way the iPhone does — Overdue, Today, and on through the week — with the list’s color beside each one, and Emergent, flag, and calendar marks where they apply.

I added a task on my Watch with my iPhone away. Will it still alert me?

Yes. When you add a task on the Watch, the Watch works out when it’s due from what you said and sets its own alert for that time, there and then. That alert lives in watchOS, so it arrives at the right moment whether or not your iPhone is reachable — out of range, switched off, or left at home for the day.

A task with a time you gave it appears straight away among the others due then, with a small red Apple Watch mark beside its name. That mark means it lives on your Watch and nowhere else yet; it goes as soon as your iPhone has the task. Until then you can’t complete or snooze it — there’s nothing to act on — but you can swipe it to cancel.

A task with no time it could work out has nowhere to sit, so it waits in Queued for iPhone instead, with a line saying whether the Watch alert is set. If watchOS won’t show alerts — turned off, or set to deliver quietly — that line says so rather than claiming it’s scheduled, and a row only says more when there is more to say: that your iPhone has it and is syncing, or that it couldn’t be saved at all.

Until then, the Watch alert repeats at your Default Snooze interval (Settings → Notifications on your iPhone), up to Number of Alerts times (Settings → Apple Watch).

Once your iPhone has the task and has set up its own alerts for it, the Watch hands over and drops its stand-in, so you’re never told twice.

Two things it can’t do:

Can I cancel a task I added on my Watch?

Yes. Swipe the row — wherever it appears, whether among your other tasks or in Queued for iPhone — and tap Cancel. The task is withdrawn, its Watch alert goes with it, and no device picks it up later. If your iPhone had already saved it in the moment before you swiped, the cancel turns into a delete, so it ends up in Recently Deleted like anything else you delete.

Can I change what swiping does on my Watch?

Yes, on your iPhone — Settings → Apple Watch. The section appears once the Watch app is installed.

Swipe Actions sets what each direction does: Snooze, Complete, Delete, or Off to turn that swipe off. Delete moves the task to Recently Deleted, the same as deleting it anywhere else, and it’s the one action a full swipe won’t trigger — you have to tap it, so a long swipe can’t throw a task away by accident. Show Action Title puts the action’s name on the button as well as its symbol.

Snooze Swipe Duration is how long a snooze swipe snoozes for — anything from 1 to 60 minutes or hours (10 minutes unless you change it). The task is snoozed straight away, without opening anything.

These settings travel to your Watch over its direct connection to your iPhone rather than through iCloud, so a change lands the next time the two are connected.

Why does something I did on my Watch take a moment to appear?

watchOS doesn’t allow apps to change reminders directly — only to read them. So anything you do on the Watch is carried out by your iPhone on its behalf.

A task you’ve completed shows as done on the Watch while it waits, so you’re never left wondering whether it took. A snooze keeps the time the Watch showed you as well — if you snooze something for 10 minutes at 2:00 and your iPhone only hears about it at 2:08, the task is still due at 2:10, not pushed out to 2:18.

Can I put Due Something on my watch face?

Yes, two complications:

Long-press your watch face, tap Edit, choose a complication slot, and pick Due Something. They refresh as your tasks change and when the Watch wakes them.

Does Due Something work on iPhone Duo?

Yes, in every pose.

Folding to a screen too small for two lists keeps the one you were working in and closes the other. Unfold again and you can reopen it, or use a saved layout.

Can I find tasks with Spotlight?

Yes. Your open tasks appear in iPhone and Mac search. Tapping a result opens it in Due Something. The index lives only on your device.

Can I add tasks from other apps?

Yes — share a webpage, selected text, a photo, or a file from any app and choose Due Something in the share sheet. The page’s title becomes the task title, the link is saved in the notes, a shared photo or file becomes an attachment, and any date in shared text is picked up automatically.

Can I drag something in from another app?

Yes. Drag text, a link, or one or more files onto a list and Due Something starts a task from them:

The task opens in the editor with everything filled in, so nothing is saved until you tap Save. Cancel and the copied files are discarded.

Files are limited to 25 MB each, and one drop can carry up to 20 items and 100 MB in total. If something in the drop can’t be read, the whole import stops and tells you, rather than quietly leaving part of it out.

Read-only lists don’t accept drops.

Can I add several tasks at once?

Yes — type them one per line in the title field and each line becomes its own task, sharing the date, time, repeat, list, and notes you’ve set. Any attachments go on the first one.

Two more shortcuts while you’re typing a title:

Does Due Something work with Siri and Shortcuts?

Yes. Try “Add a task to Due Something” or “What’s overdue in Due Something” — phrases need to include the app’s name. You can also snooze by voice: “Snooze my overdue tasks in Due Something for 30 minutes”, “Snooze everything in Due Something”, or “Snooze a task in Due Something”, which asks you which task and how long. The Shortcuts app has the full set of actions (add, search, snooze, batch snooze, and more) for building your own automations.

Does Due Something have keyboard shortcuts?

On the Mac, and on iPad with a keyboard: ⌘N new task, ⌘⇧N new list, ⌘F search, ⌘1 Overview and ⌘2 through ⌘5 the smart lists, ⌘⇧K complete the selected tasks, and ⌘⌫ delete them. In the task editor, ⌘↩ saves and Esc cancels. On the Mac, the View menu also has ⌘+, ⌘−, and ⌘0 to make the text bigger, smaller, or actual size.

Does Due Something work with VoiceOver and other accessibility features?

Yes. Every control is labeled for VoiceOver, undo toasts are announced and stay until you act on them, and the app follows Larger Text, Reduce Motion, Increase Contrast, and Differentiate Without Color.

Two notes about gestures that are held rather than tapped. Search is normally opened by pulling down on a list and holding; when VoiceOver, Switch Control, or AssistiveTouch is on, a search button appears in the toolbar instead. With Voice Control, use Siri or a keyboard to search.

I left a tip but something went wrong

Thank you! Tips are one-time purchases handled entirely by Apple’s App Store — Due Something never sees your payment details. If a purchase fails or the Tip Jar shows tips as unavailable, check that you’re signed in to the App Store and that in-app purchases aren’t restricted in Screen Time. If Apple charged you and something still looks wrong, email us and we’ll sort it out.

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