Google is scrapping Assistant’s ability to set location-based reminders

For individuals who realize it exists, the power to set location-based reminders is certainly one of Google Assistant’s most helpful options. It lets them specify a location, in order that they’ll get an alert after they arrive wherever it’s — as an illustration, a person can say “Remind me to name [name of their friend] in NYC,” and Assistant will ship them a notification after they step foot within the metropolis. The unhealthy information for many who depend on the characteristic to remind them to get sure issues from the grocery retailer or to refill their automobile tanks after they move by a fuel station is that it will quickly not exist. Within the Assistant Assist web page, Google added a line that claims: “The choice to create reminders for a sure location goes away quickly.”

The corporate trailed behind Apple and Amazon in introducing the characteristic and first introduced the power to set location-based reminders through Google House units in 2018. As 9to5Google notes, Google has solely simply began notifying customers who set reminders with a location connected that the characteristic is getting axed. It did not say why, although, and solely advisable setting reminders at a sure time or setting routines for a location as an alternative. For the latter, customers will be capable to immediate Assistant to carry out a sequence of duties triggered primarily based on the place they’re. 

Google does not have a concrete date for the characteristic’s elimination, however 9to5Google says it may very well be a part of the corporate’s efforts to make method for the long-awaited “Reminiscence” improve for Assistant. It is meant to rework the voice assistant right into a helpful organizer, letting customers save content material, photographs, reminders and different objects in a single place that has a sensible search perform.