Apple’s iPhones can make sure you’ll remember to get things done when you are in the right place at the right time.

Why would you use location-based alerts?

With a little preparatory work, you can use this feature to help you get lots of different things done. Some examples:

• Remind me to pick up milk when I leave the office.
• Remind me to drop into the doctor’s to pick up my prescription.
• Remind me to call Mum when I leave the gym.

If you use the Find My Friend app, you can even set a reminder that tells you to call your chum once they return to their home.

Setting up your iPhone for location-based alerts

To make location-based reminders more effective, you should open your Contacts app and create new contacts (or edit existing ones) with additional information. By this I mean you may want to create and name address items such as Office, Gym, Doctor. Here’s how to do this:

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