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 go into the clock app
And set the timer
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.
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.
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.
Isn’t what you want a reminder anyway? Seems like an odd ask for an alarm to be days an hours in advanced as opposed to 6am tomorrow.
I have to get up early for work next Thursday. Should I set a reminder for myself for next Wednesday to remind myself to set my alarm for the next morning?
Did you get drunk on Wednesday? Why wouldn’t you remember you need to wake up the night before and set an alarm?
An alarm is something urgent, 3 days and 5 hours from now isn’t urgent, that’s something you need to be reminded about, which is what the reminder prompt is for.
An alarm is something that warns or signals, by one definition. It doesn’t necessarily need to be urgent.
However, Google is weird. At least on my phone, I can easily set a timer for 3 days and 5 hours without a problem.
Alarms on Google typically mean wakeup alarms. That may trigger the snooze/cancel functionality when that timer expires. Odd that you can’t set one way ahead of time.
I am not trying to be a jackass here or anything, but I have never actually thought about the distinctions between alarms, timers and reminders. I just kinda thought they were all the same. /shrug