• Cortana is one of the most useful features of Windows 10 and it can truly enhance your user experience.
• However, like any other app or feature, it has some faults, including the Reminders that sometimes stop working.
• In the article below we tackle some of the reasons why this happens and help you overcome them.
• There are various Cortana settings that may remediate this issue, but also fixing your registry, running SFC or DISM can be of great help.

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Cortana is a digital assistant that supports both Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 on your PC. Cortana is able to do many things including managing and providing you reminders.

To avoid forgetting important things, you can just command Cortana and it sets a reminder like Hey Cortana! Remind me to send the email at 7 PM and she will set a reminder for you.

On the other hand, no innovation is entirely perfect. While Cortana reminders are explicitly awesome, they have some issues such as:

• Once you have set a reminder, it is not possible to edit it. You have to delete it and set it all over again.
• If you try to set a reminder by giving complex statements like locations, it ends up saying, Couldn’t create the reminder. Please try again later.
• Sometimes due to the constant background listening, you might choose to turn Cortana off. When you turn it back again you might find the reminders are not working. This can be solved by restarting or by signing out and in of the device.
• And the least bothering issue is that the reminder doesn’t show up in Cortana’s History after completion.

Apart from these, there might be issues where you can’t figure out why your Windows are not working. Even after the reminder is not, we don’t get any notification regarding and sometimes we get the notification when we next set it up. As a solution, there is something that you can try and fix this issue.

What to do if Windows 10 Cortana reminders stop working

Table of contents: 

1. Check Cortana’s Reminders section

You need to check is if you really have saved any reminders or not. To do that, just open Cortana and then open the reminders section. This will show you the list of reminders that you have set.

If the list is empty, then there were no reminders set at all.

2.  Turn the Calendar on

If you are not receiving notifications based on the date and time, it is a possibility that your reminders calendar is off.

Go to Calendar, search for the settings. In the display, go to Remind me, and tick the checkbox beside Reminders.

3. Check the antivirus configuration

It’s already known that Windows 10 features and third-party antivirus programs can sometimes interfere.

Consequently, it is possible that your antivirus has actually disabled Cortana. To see if that’s indeed the case, disable your antivirus for a couple of minutes, and see if Cortana works now.

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4. Check your Account Settings

Now go to the Accounts section and open it.

Now open the Family & Other Users settings and then click on Add someone else to this PC.

This is necessary since, in the case of person-based reminders, you might have accidentally deleted the contact or used an account without the contact’s name.

5. Turn Location on

Now open the Privacy section inside Settings and now you will be on a new screen.

When it comes to a location-based reminder, the error occurs because either you are not connected to the internet or your location is off, so this solution should be helpful.

6. Check Regional settings

First things first, let’s make sure Cortana is supported in your region. Because if it’s not, well, you won’t be able to use it.

This is the list of supported regions and languages:

• Australia: English
• Brazil: Portuguese
• Canada: English/French
• China: Chinese (Simplified)
• France: French
• Germany: German
• India: English
• Italy: Italian
• Japan: Japanese
• Mexico: Spanish
• Spain: Spanish
• United Kingdom: English
• United States: English

If you were able to use Cortana seamlessly before the update, and now it’s not available, there’s a great chance that something with your Region settings is wrong.

Either you have installed an unsupported language by mistake or the installation changed the settings on its own. In both cases, you can resolve this issue in a few easy steps.

Under the Speech language drop-down menu, select one of the supported spoken languages.

7. Run the Apps Troubleshooter

Find Windows Store apps, and click Run the troubleshooter.

Although Cortana comes integrated with Windows 10, it still counts as an app. This is why we can use Windows 10’s built-in troubleshooter to resolve potential problems with it.

8. Reset Cortana

When PowerShell starts, run the following command: Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)AppXManifest­.xml

9. Tweak Registry

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionSearch.

There’s a chance something inside your system actually disabled Cortana. So this would be the best way to re-enable Cortana.

10. Run the SFC

Enter the following line and press Enter: sfc/scannow

The SFC scan is a command-line tool that scans your computer for potential problems and resolves them (if possible). So, maybe it will be helpful in this case.

11. Run DISM

This is an alternative to the previous solution. DISM stands for Deployment Image Servicing and Management, and as its name says, it deploys the system image all over again, including Cortana.

If you still experience any other errors other than those regarding the reminders, feel free to contact us in the comment section so that we will help you solve them and add them up to the above list.

If you want to read more about Cortana, see our dedicated Cortana section.

For even more useful articles, go to our Windows 10 Troubleshooting Hub.

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