--- title: Pill reminder that repeats until taken, for iPhone url: https://dose-log-kokkeong.web.app/features/reminders description: Dose Log's pill reminders ask again if a dose isn't logged, up to 8 times, with Taken, Skip and Later on the Lock Screen and a sound for each medicine. --- [Features](https://dose-log-kokkeong.web.app/features) ยท Reminders # Pill reminders that ask again until you answer A reminder only helps if you answer it. Dose Log's reminders put Taken, Skip and Later on the Lock Screen, and if you don't answer, they ask again. ## Answer from the Lock Screen When a dose is due, long-press the reminder for three buttons: - **Taken** logs the dose at that moment. - **Later** asks again after the wait you chose: 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes, or an hour. - **Skip** logs it as Skipped, so your record shows you chose not to take it. However you log a dose (in the app, a widget, your Apple Watch or Siri), its reminder clears and nothing more comes for it. Tapping the reminder itself only opens the app; it never logs anything for you. ## Asked again, if you want Under **More reminder options** on each medicine: - **Ask again if not logged:** after 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes, 1 or 2 hours, or Don't. 30 minutes is the default. - **Repeat until answered:** keeps asking, up to 8 times for each dose. - **Later waits:** how long Later waits. When one reminder covers several medicines, Later uses the shortest wait. ## A sound for each medicine Each medicine can have its own reminder sound, so you know which it is before you look: iPhone default, Soft chime, Two notes, Bell or Long ring. The sound for every other medicine is in Settings > Reminders. ## When reminders don't arrive Settings > Reminders shows what reminders can do on this iPhone and has **Send a test reminder**, which arrives in 5 seconds. If it doesn't, check that notifications are on for Dose Log and that no Focus is holding them back. iOS holds a limited number of reminders ahead, so open Dose Log now and then to keep them coming. ## Private on a shared screen Turn on **Discreet mode** (Settings > Privacy) and reminders say "Time for your medicine" instead of its name, with no amount. Running-low alerts and the Live Activity follow it too. ## Travelling Reminders never move on their own when you change time zone. Dose Log shows a **New time zone** sheet: keep each medicine on your home time, switch it to the time where you are, or keep it at the same time always. ## Tips that work with any reminder Tie each dose to a meal or bedtime, keep a pill box or chart where you'll see it, and keep a list of what you take. See [how to remember to take your medicine every day](https://dose-log-kokkeong.web.app/blog/how-to-remember-to-take-medicine). ## Set your first reminder All reminders are free. Add a medicine, choose its time, and Dose Log does the rest. ## More features - [Tap Taken on your Apple Watch](https://dose-log-kokkeong.web.app/features/apple-watch) - [Medicines for your family, in one place](https://dose-log-kokkeong.web.app/features/people) - [A pill box on your Home Screen](https://dose-log-kokkeong.web.app/features/widgets)