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General Category => Amazon Echo Discussion => Topic started by: StevenR on October 07, 2017, 04:56:47 am

Title: Phone notifications from reminders
Post by: StevenR on October 07, 2017, 04:56:47 am

It's been a while since I have used reminders, but I tried them out again today and noticed that I got a notification from the Alexa app about the reminder when it went off. I don't think it used to do this, was this introduced in the recent update? It definitely makes it harder to miss the reminder.

It does appear that, if you have multiple accounts on your Echo, you need to be logged in to the Alexa app with the same account you were using when you set the reminder to receive the notification.

Title: Re: Phone notifications from reminders
Post by: malliekm on October 07, 2017, 09:18:53 am

I think it's newish.  I sure like the way Alexa says the name of a (named timer) when she's alerting you.  Google Home does not.  You have to ask what timer was that  ???  But it does alert you via your phone.