Reminders are one of the most useful tools that we can use in our day-to-day lives, but you still did not know the possibility that you can add reminders from the current location , something very interesting.
Probably, in some circumstances we have had to calculate what time we would get home or the office to remember something important. That is precisely what the location-based reminder settings allow, because they will remind you of something when you arrive at that site , so you don’t forget.
These reminders can be created on your Android phone or on the iPhone or iPad, in each device it is done in a different way, but the end in all of them is the same, that a certain task that you have pending can be remembered when you arrive at the location fixed.
Through Google Maps on Android
This type of reminder can be done from your Android phone. In order to start we must have both the GPS activated at all times, which will only be activated when the application requires it, so we should not have any fear of battery drain.
In addition to the GPS, we must have one or more locations established in Google Maps such as the address of our house, so that it can detect when we have arrived and thus notify us. To establish our home and / or work in Google Maps we will follow the following steps:
- We activate the GPS by sliding from the top of the screen down, locating the GPS section and we activate it, we open Google Maps and inside we click on the search engine located at the top.
- Once we are inside the search engine, two undefined icons will appear, one in the upper left with the symbol of a house and the other with an icon of a briefcase that says “Work”.
- To configure either our house, our work or both we must click on the icon that we want to define either the house or the work and enter the address of the place.
- Now that we have defined one of the two places, we must make use of Google Assistant , for this we invoke the assistant through “Ok, Google” or by holding down the central button of our smartphone and we will say, for example, ” Remind me to turn off the heat when I get home. “
Now, when we get home, the reminder will appear on our mobile of what we had scheduled when we arrived at the location.
Reminders using Google Keep on Android
One of the most popular notetaking tools is Google Keep . This is not just a notes app, but we can also set location-based reminders. To add this type of reminder we will follow the following steps:
- We open Google Keep, create a new note and add a reminder to the bell icon in the upper right.
- In that wizard we will choose the place that, in this case, at least in our tests we only have the possibility of choosing a city and not a specific place as occurs using the wizard.
- Click on “Ok” and the Google Keep notification will appear in the place we have programmed. These are the two most popular methods to add location-based reminders on Android.
Location-based reminders using Siri
As in the Google operating system, in iOS there are two possibilities to add location-based reminders , one of them is through Siri . In the case of the iPhone, it is also possible to add reminders for when we are no longer in a place, for, for example, not forgetting the keys, etc.
To add a location-based reminder, we must perform the following steps:
- We invoke Siri, either by holding down the central button or through the command “Hey Siri.” Then we will say “Remind me to leave my wallet on the table when I get home.”
- Then it will ask us to enter the exact address of that location.
- Now we will choose if we want it to remind us when we get to that place, as is the case in our example or if when we leave the reminder is activated.
Reminder using the iOS Reminders app
The “Reminders” app is pre-installed on most iPhones, so it is interesting to know how to take advantage of it to be able, among other things, to add a reminder based on a specific location and to remind us when we get to that site. Do the following:
- Open the app and click on “reminders”.
- Now click again on ” new reminder “, option that appears below. Write what you want to remember and click on the icon shaped like a paper plane.
- Now choose the option “when getting into the car” or “customize”, where you can choose a specific site or the current location, and even when getting out of the car.
And that would be ready, if later you want to modify the location you just have to click on the specific reminder and click on the “information” icon that appears just to the right to modify the specific location of the reminder.
The truth is that this type of location-based reminders are very useful since it saves us from having to calculate what time we are going to be home and having to set an alarm at a specific time, or on the contrary, not remember what we had to do when we got home.
