To set a baby feeding reminder after your latest entry, save the actual event time first. Choose an after-event reminder, select the feeding category and set the interval you need. Then allow notifications on your iPhone. You choose the interval for your own reminder or to follow a clinician's plan. The app does not work out when your baby needs feeding.
Choose a clock time or an interval after an entry
A daily reminder stays at a chosen time. You might use one at 9:00 a.m. to review the log. Recording another feed will not move it.
A reminder after the last feed starts from a log entry. If the latest event time changes, the reminder time changes too. Use this option when you want a prompt to return to the log a chosen amount of time after an event.
Check the entry before setting the reminder
Suppose a feed started at 1:40 a.m., but you could not reach your phone until 2:05 a.m. The start entry should say 1:40 a.m. Leaving it at the time you tapped would move the starting point 25 minutes later.
Look at the latest entry in the feeding category. Check its time and whether your partner has already recorded the event. Edit an existing entry rather than adding the same feed again. For details worth keeping alongside the time, see what to record after a feed or diaper change.
A reminder interval is not a feeding schedule
The number of minutes controls your prompt. It cannot tell you how much milk your baby took or how long they can safely wait. If your doctor or midwife has given you a feeding plan, ask which point the interval should start from.
The NHS advises responding to early feeding cues when breastfeeding. Its bottle feeding advice also says to feed when your baby seems hungry. Do not wait for an app notification as a condition for offering a feed. Ask your healthcare professional about feeding intervals or whether your baby needs waking for feeds.
Set up the reminder in Closeby
In Closeby, reminders after an event require Premium. To create one:
- Open Settings, then Reminders, and tap Add reminder.
- In the editor, set When to After an event.
- Set After category to Feeding.
- Choose your interval and a title such as "Check the feeding log." Leave the reminder enabled.
- Tap Save and allow notifications if iOS asks for permission.
Check the saved reminder and the iPhone permission separately. Seeing a reminder in the list does not confirm that iOS will display its alert.
Understand what resets the reminder
Closeby uses the most recent event time in the selected category. Both timer start and end entries count. If you record a feed starting at 1:40 a.m., the reminder starts from that entry. When you save the end at 2:00 a.m., the app recalculates it from 2:00 a.m.
There is no option in this reminder to count only from the start. "After feeding" therefore means after the latest feeding entry, which may be a start, an end or a single feeding record.
When you save a new feeding entry in the app, it replaces the pending alert with one based on the latest entry. A diaper or nappy change does not move a reminder tied to feeding. Adding an older, missed feed also leaves the starting point unchanged if a later feeding entry already exists.
Without any entries in the selected category, the app cannot schedule an after-event alert. If the target time has already passed when you set up or recalculate the reminder, it does not create an overdue alert. After an alert fires, it does not keep repeating at that interval without another entry.
What is free and what needs Premium
One daily reminder at a set time is free. Reminders after an event and multiple reminders require Premium.
Reminder settings belong to the device. They do not travel with the shared log through iCloud. If your partner needs an alert on another iPhone, they need to set it up on that phone.
Check iPhone settings if an alert is missing
Open the iPhone Settings app, tap Notifications, select Closeby and check Allow Notifications. Check your active Focus and sound settings too. Apple explains these notification settings, including why a silenced phone will not play notification sounds. Do not rely on a guaranteed audible alert at the exact scheduled minute.
Start with one reminder for the feeding category and check notification permission on the iPhone you use during your turn caring for the baby.