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You Can Now Set Location-Based Reminders on Google Home

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It’s not easy remembering everything, but thanks to the enabling of location-based reminders on Google Home, it’s now getting easier to be reminded.

Let’s say you’re in the kitchen and notice you need more coffee. Starting now, you can tell your Google Home to remind you to pick up coffee the next time you’re at the grocery store. Then, once you’re at the grocery store, your smartphone recognizes this, then alerts you of the reminder to buy coffee.

Super slick, right?

This feature can be applied to all sorts of different things, so give it a try and let us know what you think. I’m interested to start using this myself.

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17 responses to “You Can Now Set Location-Based Reminders on Google Home”

  1. Scott Washington Avatar
    Scott Washington

    For a second I forgot it can send info to your phone. I thought “Wow that’s kinda dumb, how often am I gonna take my Google home out of the house with me?”

    1. jonzey231 Avatar
      jonzey231

      Literally my exact thought process.

  2. stratusnj Avatar
    stratusnj

    how does it know which grocery store? Or is it when you pass any grocery store?

  3. litobirdy Avatar
    litobirdy

    can we do this w/o turning GPS on? Im the type that NEVER has GPS on unless i need it on. GPS still a massive battery drainer right?

    1. ChanceIll Avatar
      ChanceIll

      Not necessarily. I use GPS in battery saver mode. It doesn’t have a significant impact on battery life. It also depends on what’s using location services and how often

      1. litobirdy Avatar
        litobirdy

        i have a galaxy s8+ in regular mode, no battery saver mode I hate using battery saver mode

        1. Gumption24 Avatar
          Gumption24

          You seem like a lot of fun at a party.

          1. litobirdy Avatar
            litobirdy

            woohoo GPS AT PARTIES WOOHOOOO
            but really, is gps still battery drainer like it used to be?

          2. DarkMan_X16 Avatar
            DarkMan_X16

            not that I notice… I have a Pixel 2 and never turn off Bluetooth, WIFI or GPS and get good battery life, I’ve also done that with every phone I’ve had since the Nexus 5

          3. litobirdy Avatar
            litobirdy

            Thank you

          4. sinfoman Avatar
            sinfoman

            FWIW, I am ANAL about my battery life. SUPER anal. I have found with the advent of permissions, having GPS/BT/ETC. on constantly has little to no appreciable degradation in battery life. In retrospect, that made sense to me. Once they changed the antenna to be OFF by default (even though it’s “on” on your device) it only gets activated by the app calling the API. Hence, by turning on the sleep/doze/monitoring functionality of the app only allows it to make that call when YOU tell it to do so. Make sense?

          5. jonzey231 Avatar
            jonzey231

            Ditto. I’m reading these posts thinking “people actually go out of their way to turn these things off?”

    2. trixnkix637 Avatar
      trixnkix637

      GPS hasn’t been a battery drain in quite some time on Android. I’d argue since around maybe 6.0

  4. Good_Ole_Pinocchio Avatar
    Good_Ole_Pinocchio

    ….didn’t this already work on phones? This just a Home update?

    1. litobirdy Avatar
      litobirdy

      hmm

      1. Good_Ole_Pinocchio Avatar
        Good_Ole_Pinocchio

        I’m not sure if it’s different but I set reminders for when I get “Home” all the time. It already knows where I live so it just works.

        1. jonzey231 Avatar
          jonzey231

          Yeah, you’re right. I have it remind me to get things when I get to Kroger lol.

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