Created a task in your inbox and want to move it to a more suitable home? Set up a new list to break out some existing reminders? Puzzled how you can change a task’s list? Find out here how to move tasks from one list to another in Apple Reminders ⤓.
First, Task Flies Like Fruit Flies
Early in the 1960s, two Harvard researchers reported their frustration trying to make computers understand English. (They wanted the machines to help them translate. Much later, it turned out understanding is not strictly necessary for the task if one can apply brute force.)
Teach the language parser a rule that lets it correctly interpret the ambiguous sentence “Time flies like an arrow,” for instance, and it will be stumped with “Fruit flies like bananas.”
One of the researchers, Anthony Oettinger, later published an article in Scientific American with the more parallel, fondly remembered and widely attributed
Time flies like an arrow. […]
Fruit flies like a banana.
Now, want to watch as a task flies like fruit flies? From one list to another in no time:
How to Move Tasks from One List to Another in Apple Reminders
Dragging and Dropping
Time needed: 1 minute
To move a task (or selection of tasks) to a different (and perchance new) list in Apple Reminders on Mac, iPhone or iPad:
- Tap and hold or click and hold the reminder you want to move to a different list in Apple Reminders.
Multiple tasks: To select and move more than one task, hold down Command while you click the desired tasks (on a Mac) or choose Select Reminders from the three dots menu in the list view (in Reminders for iPhone and iPad).
- Drag and the task or tasks to the desired list in the list view.
No list view: On a Mac, the list view will appear if you hover over the left border of the Reminders window; on an iPhone, hover the tasks over < Lists near the top left corner to reveal the list of lists.
- Let go to drop the task onto the desired list.
Plus. Do not let the + sign that appears next to the task as you drag it on iPhone and iPad fool you: you will move the task, not copy it.
Their word: Apple include information on organizing (and moving) tasks in a support article.
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Using the Context Menu
To change the list for a task in Apple Reminders on iPhone, iPad and Mac:
- Click on the task you want to move with the right mouse button (Mac) or tap and hold the task (iPhone and iPad).
More than one: In Apple Reminders for Mac, you can select any number of tasks and right-click on any of them; on iPhone and iPad, see below for moving multiple tasks in one go. - Select List or Move To List from the context menu.
- Now choose the list to which you want to move the task or tasks.
Moving Multiple Tasks in Reminders for iPhone and iPad
To select and move multiple tasks in one go on iPhone and iPad:
- Go to the list that contains the tasks you would like to move.
Tags: You can also visit a tag, of course, to move multiple tasks.
Search: You cannot, alas, move tasks from search results directly. - Tap the three dots menu icon ⋯⃝.
- Choose Select Reminders in the menu that has appeared.
- Tap all tasks you want to move to the new list.
In range: You can swipe over the selection circles to select a range (and keep going beyond a screenful). - Now tap the Move to button in the bottom toolbar.
- Select the destination list for the tasks.
How to Move Tasks from One List to Another in Apple Reminders: FAQ
Can I move tasks to another list in Apple Reminders on iCloud.com?
No.
Accessing Apple Reminders using a browser and iCloud.com, you can create, complete and to some degree edit tasks, but you cannot change the list on which a task appears.
Can I copy a task to a different list?
Yes.
While you cannot copy a task directly to another list using dragging and dropping, you can paste tasks on any list.
To copy a task to another list:
- Click on the task with the right mouse button (Apple Reminders for macOS) or tap and hold the task (Apple Reminders for iOS and iPadOS).
Copy more: In Reminders for Mac, you can select multiple tasks to copy the bunch in one go; in Reminders for iPhone and iPad, you can only copy one task at a time. - Select Copy from the context menu that has appeared.
Apple Reminders keyboard shortcut: On a Mac, you can als press Command C to copy with a task or tasks highlighted. - Go to the list to which you want to copy the task or tasks.
- Now click an existing task on the list with the right mouse button (Mac) or long-tap the task (iPhone and iPad).
- Select Paste from the context menu.
(Tested with Apple Reminders 7.0 on macOS as well as Reminders for iOS 26 and 18; first published April 2025, last updated March 2026)