How to Change Which Apps Have Access to Your Reminders on an iPhone

Written by Jack Lloyd

Last Updated: May 25, 2021 Tested

This wikiHow teaches you how to enable or disable third-party apps like Microsoft Word from accessing Reminders saved to your iPhone and sending your notifications through the Reminders app.

Steps

1
Open your iPhone's Settings. It's the grey gear icon on one of your phone's Home screens (it may be inside of a folder named "Utilities").
2
Scroll down and tap Privacy. It's in the third group of options on this page.
3
Select Reminders. It should be near the top of the screen.
4
Review the list of apps. Every app listed here has permission to access your Reminders app.
- If you don't see any apps listed here, there aren't any apps accessing Reminders.
5
Slide the switch next to an app right or left to the "On" or "Off" position. Sliding the switch right will grant the app access to reminders, while sliding the switch left will revoke access.
- When an app has access to Reminders, its switch will be green. When it doesn't, the switch will be grey.