How to set location-based reminders on your iPhone or iPad

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Albeit its intuitive straightforwardness and relative lack of features, one can't overlook the fact that iOS comes with a respectable host of pretty useful functionalities that aim to make your everyday life easier. However, some are buried deep inside the menus, while others are also hidden and not "in your face".

There's no denying that reminders usually serve a life-saving purpose in our daily lives, as there's nothing worse than missing an important deadline or forgetting about your appointment with the dentist (okay, the last one is probably not the perfect example). As a rule of thumb, when a user sets a reminder, they choose a date and time when the alarm will go off and remind them of the event in question. 

But did you know that you can easily create reminders that will notify you when you arrive at or leave a given location? We bet some of you didn't know that. Well, there's such an option in iOS and you can easily make full use of it on your iPhone and iPad right now. Here's how to do this:

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