How can I create a list in the Reminders app using EventKit?

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Created Dec ’23

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I want to create a list in the Reminders app using EventKit. For each created list, I want to create EKReminders. However, it seems that EventKit does not provide a way to create a reminder list directly. How can I achieve this?

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jan ’24

Creating reminders requires an existing list. You can only add reminders to existing and mutable lists.

To create a list in EventKit, perform these steps:

Create an instance of event store

    var store = EKEventStore()

Initialize EKCalendar with a reminder entity and the created event store instance.

let list = EKCalendar(for: .reminder, eventStore: store)

Set up the source

     list.source = source

Set up the name

     list.title = name

Save the result

    try store.saveCalendar(list, commit: true)

See the Managing Location-Based Reminders sample code that demonstrates it.

Once you create a list, follow steps outlined in Create Reminders to create and save your reminders to the list.

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