"Google giveth - and Google taketh away. If there's one thing we've learned as Android-adoring animals over the years, it's that you can't ever fully count on Google to stick with something forever. The company pivots, rebrands, and eradicates apps and options as often as I eat waffles (which, conveniently enough, seems to be roughly once every few months). And sometimes, that means something genuinely useful that you rely on and appreciate suddenly ceases to exist."
"'Twas a time, y'see, when you could simply ask our dear old Google Assistant to set such a reminder for ye - to pop up a reminder, in other words, when you arrived at a specific place (an address, a business, even a city whilst traveling). But as Google started dissembling Assistant in favor of Gemini, it stripped that option away."
Google is removing location-based reminder support from the Android version of Keep, eliminating the ability to trigger reminders upon arriving at a specific place. The removal follows prior reductions in Google Assistant functionality after the transition toward Gemini, which already stripped direct location-reminder commands. The change reflects a broader pattern of frequent pivots, rebrands, and feature retirements across Google's apps. Users who relied on Keep for address-, business-, or city-triggered memos will lose that convenience imminently. Alternative apps and methods remain available to replicate location-based reminder behavior on Android. Users should evaluate replacements promptly to preserve workflows.
Read at Computerworld
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