Well, have you tried typing “traffic”?
This has probably saved lots of people from accidentally setting an alarm too far in the future when they meant to set it for the next morning. You may not agree with the choice, but I’m sure this has helped more people than it has annoyed.
Set a reminder to set yourself an alarm
The AI should be smarter. “That’s an alarm for Tuesday, right?” is a confirmation it could ask.
Which is why I don’t feel bad for verbally abusing it when I say “text [name] don’t forget to put those breadsticks away period if you don’t eat them comma I will” and the infernal machine does a google search for that instead sending a text to [name] with the message “Don’t forget to put those breadsticks away. If you don’t eat them, I will.”
Yeah assistant I wanted to see fuckin reddit threads loosely related to breadsticks and texting, I super didn’t want you to do the thing I explicitly said to do.
Just do it manually.
You absolutely can set an alarm for a specific day in google clock version 7.6 from the play store.
After you set the alarm if you click on it you can give it a name such as “laundry” and set it for a specific day such as “Sunday”
I have alarms for workdays and alarms for times to take medicine.
You can set an alarm for a early wake up for a flight time a week ahead of time if you want. The assist is super basic to protect you from doing dumb shit, but you absolutely can do it manually.
You know what’s even more annoying? You can set a notification or email reminder to go off prior to a calendar appointment, but can’t set an alarm to go off prior to one. I need my phone to make noise when it’s time for me to get ready, not just show a notification!
Isn’t it possible to change the notification sound by selecting an alarm sound , just for calendar notifications?
This should give you what you need
The only caveat i can think of now, is that notifications don’t loop the sound… So pretty much useless, unless you just need one loud reminder
Notifications have a lower level of priority than an alarm. Notification volume is set differently than alarm volume. Alarms take over the screen whereas notifications just give you a prompt at the top. As a person with ADD, it’s a huge inconvenience and I need to use workarounds that are unreliable. I just want a ducking alarm when I need it without getting some stupid artificial limitation on why I can’t do it.
ummm Ackwtewely this is a feature because…
Nah. Fuck that.
If I want to wake up early on Tuesday next week what I need is an alarm that morning. A human would understand the prompt and do it correctly, a computer assistant should be able to do exactly the same.
You go into the clock app
And set the timer
While true, I think those two steps are simple enough as is and really aren’t improved by a digital assistant
Then what’s the point of the digital assistant?
Seriously, people in the comments seem to have drunk so much google coolaid it isn’t even funny. It’s an obvious bug that doesn’t let your “digital assistant” setup something that you personally would be able to setup.
There isn’t a rationale here, there isn’t some hidden tech, it’s just shitty design.
It’s significantly faster to just tell it to set an alarm than it is to go into the app and do so manually, wanting it to work with all of the features isn’t asking a lot
What a weird thing to be a dick about
For some people, for example people with disabilities, this kind of thing can be a big deal. Stop thinking only of yourself.
The whole problem is that you can’t set an alarm more than 24 hours ahead of time unless you set it to repeat. The timer also gets reset if the phone restarts or if you bump the stop button on the notification screen. Workarounds work most of the time but they set you up for problems. The artificial limitation is unnecessary and just creates problems for people like myself who have ADD.