The Google Assistant can now remind your lazy roommate to do the dishes.

The Google Assistant can now remind your lazy roommate to do the dishes.

If you share your home with other people, you will likely send them regular SMS reminders, whether it's to take out the trash or pick up the bread before heading home. after work.

This can be tedious, but Google Assistant may offer a better solution, announcing that the voice assistant can now assign reminders to different people in your household.

So instead of sending harassing text messages to your loved ones, you can say, "Hi Google, remind Sarah to pay the rent on the last day of every month" and you will get a notification on your smart speaker Google Smart Display Home. as well as your phone.

You can even set location-based reminders; for example, a reminder for Sarah to buy bread when she goes to the grocery store. When Google Assistant recognizes that you have arrived at the store, the reminder appears on your phone.

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The family is first

You can only send and receive reminders to members of your Google family group or those whose accounts are associated with the same monitor or smart speaker as you.

If you don't like the idea of ​​receiving reminders from your family members, you can always block them; To do this, go to the new "Assignable Reminders" section in the Google Assistant settings.

Google says the new feature "will roll out in the coming weeks in English to smart phones, speakers and displays in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, and will work with Google's Nest Hub Max," when it will be available later this year. anus.