reminders

Apple is at last promising better sleep tracking for Apple Watch as part of . The updated Sleep app will include a sleep stage function. It will be able to detect the REM, core and deep sleep stages and track those over time.  You'll be able to view your sleep metrics alongside other data, such as heart rate and respiratory rate, in the Health app on your iPhone. Those who participate in the health research program will be able to submit their sleep stage data to Apple Heart and Movement Study researchers. One of the more…

Google appears to be dropping two features from its Assistant’s reminder-setting capabilities. It’s ditching support for assignable reminders — “remind Anna to bring in the trash cans this morning” — and location-based ones — “remind me to call Becca when I get to the office.” Google didn’t announce either change, instead opting to bury one in a support page and another in a pop-up in the Assistant app. Both features still work but evidently won’t for much longer. Chalk this one up to the latest in a long, long history…

Google Assistant has been losing features over the past several months and two more are gearing up to be quietly cut. Assignable reminders and location-based reminders will be sunset “soon” according to the Google Assistant support page. This might be a tricky change for people who have been relying on the features since they were introduced in 2019. Assignable reminders are a great way to divide tasks among groups of people as they reduced the number of assignments and notifications individuals received when…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)“Okay Google… Set a reminder to remind me to remind you to stop your location reminder feature.”“...Done.”Thanks,Google. Well, if you go to the Google Assistant Help page, it now says that the ability to create reminders on the app “is going away soon.” Additionally, the ability to assign a reminder to someone else is also going the way of the dodo.9to5Google first reported that the tech giant’s plans to ax location based reminders on Google Assistant-enabled devices, such as user…

For people who know it exists, the ability to set location-based reminders is one of Google Assistant's most useful features. It lets them specify a location, so that they can get an alert when they arrive wherever it is — for instance, a user can say "Remind me to call in NYC," and Assistant will send them a notification when they step foot in the city. The bad news for those who rely on the feature to remind them to get certain things from the grocery store or to fill up their car tanks when they pass by a gas station…