The closest built-in option is the Today Notification in Apple Reminders (Settings, Apps, Reminders, Today Notification). It sends one alert listing your reminders due today at a time you choose, 9:00 AM by default. The catch is that it only includes reminders with no specific time; timed reminders still alert individually, and it is a plain notification you cannot act on. For a true daily digest of everything due, delivered once, that you can check items off from, with urgent reminders still breaking through, an app like Remindfully layers that onto Apple Reminders.
Can I get one daily summary of my reminders?
Partly, with the tools already on your iPhone. Apple Reminders has a feature made for exactly this, called the Today Notification. Here is how to turn it on:
From then on, your all-day reminders due today are gathered into one notification at that hour instead of pinging you separately.
Why the native Today Notification is not a full digest
The Today Notification is genuinely useful, but it is narrower than most people expect, and it is worth being clear about the two limits so you are not surprised.
First, it only covers reminders with no specific time. Any reminder you gave an exact time still fires its own notification when that time comes. If your day is mostly timed reminders, the Today Notification will barely change how many alerts you get. Second, it is a plain notification, not an interactive list. You can read it, but you cannot check items off from it or see your progress through the day. It tells you what is due; it does not become the place you actually work through your day.
Using Scheduled Summary as a partial digest
There is a second native lever. iOS Scheduled Summary (Settings, Notifications, Scheduled Summary) holds non-urgent notifications and delivers them in batches at times you choose, and you can add Reminders to it. This can make the leftover timed reminders arrive in clusters rather than one by one.
The limits are the same two as before, plus one more. Scheduled Summary is system-wide, so it batches every app you add to it, not just Reminders. Reminders set for a specific time are usually delivered as time-sensitive and break through the summary anyway. And again, it is a stack of notifications, not a single reminders digest you can act on. It is a partial help, not the daily digest most people are picturing.
A true daily digest with Remindfully
Remindfully
Best for: one daily digest of everything due, that you can actually work through
Remindfully was built around the daily-digest idea the native settings only gesture at. It reads from Apple Reminders and writes your completions back, so Siri, Apple Watch, and the stock Reminders app keep working, and it gives you one calm digest of everything due today, timed and timeless alike, in a single glance rather than a string of alerts. The important things still get through: reminders set for a specific time can still interrupt at that time, and anything marked High Priority always breaks through even when the rest are staying quiet.
The one-time $4.99 Pro unlock adds a lock-screen Today card that shows the day's progress and what is next, and lets you check items off without unlocking your phone, so the digest becomes something you act on rather than just read. Free to download, no subscription.
Where it stops: it is iOS only (iPhone and iPad), and it is a layer on Apple Reminders, so your reminders stay in Apple's system. It is designed around a once-daily rhythm, which is the whole point; if you specifically want alerts scattered through the day, the built-in app already does that.
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| Capability | Today Notification | Scheduled Summary | Remindfully |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covers timed reminders | No | Batches non-urgent ones only | Yes, everything due today |
| One digest of everything due | All-day items only | Cross-app, not reminders-only | Yes |
| Check items off from it | No | No | Yes, incl. lock-screen card (Pro) |
| Urgent still breaks through | Timed items unaffected | Time-sensitive bypass it | Timed + High Priority break through |
| Price | Free | Free | Free Pro $4.99 once |
Which approach should you use?
If your reminders are mostly all-day items
The free Today Notification may be all you need. Turn it on and pick a morning time.
If you want fewer scattered alerts across all your apps
Add Scheduled Summary on top, and accept that it is cross-app and lets time-sensitive reminders through.
If you want one digest of everything due that you can act on
Use Remindfully. It is the only option here that puts timed and timeless reminders into a single daily digest you can check off, with urgent items still breaking through.
Frequently asked questions
How do I get a single daily summary of my Apple Reminders?
Turn on the Today Notification in Settings, Apps, Reminders, and choose a delivery time (9:00 AM by default). It sends one alert listing your reminders due today. Note that it only includes reminders without a specific time; timed reminders still alert individually. For a digest that includes everything due, a layer like Remindfully provides one, since Apple Reminders has no all-in-one digest setting.
What time does the Today Notification arrive?
By default it is set to 9:00 AM, but you can change it to any time in Settings, Apps, Reminders, under Today Notification. Many people set it to when they wake up so the day's list is the first thing they see.
Does the Today Notification include reminders that have a set time?
No. It only bundles all-day, timeless reminders due today. Reminders with a specific time continue to fire their own notifications at those times, which is why the Today Notification alone does not feel like a full digest for people with lots of timed reminders.
Can I get a daily digest I can check items off from?
Not from the native Today Notification, which is read-only. Remindfully's daily digest is interactive, and its Pro lock-screen Today card lets you check items off without unlocking your phone, so the digest becomes something you work through rather than just read.
Will a daily digest hide time-sensitive reminders?
It should not. With Remindfully, reminders set for a specific time can still interrupt at that time and High Priority items always break through, while routine items wait in the digest. The point of a digest is to quiet the routine, not to silence the urgent.
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Disclosure: this page is published by IT Study Hub, run by Fogarty Holdings, the maker of Remindfully. The comparison with Apple Reminders is kept honest, including the things the built-in app and other tools do better. Remindfully is free to download with an optional one-time $4.99 Pro unlock and no subscription. Apple, iOS, and features change, so confirm current details before relying on them.