Twos

Reminders and your calendar

Location reminders

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A reminder can fire when you arrive somewhere or when you leave, rather than at a time.

Location reminders are free.

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Why you'd care

"Buy milk" at 6pm is a guess. "Buy milk when I get to the shop" is correct. Anything tied to a place is better tied to the place.

The 60-second version

Set a reminder, choose location instead of time, pick a place, and choose arriving or leaving.

Saved places

Name the places you go often, like Home, Work or the gym, and they sit at the top of the place picker every time you set a location reminder. No searching for the same address twice.

There are two ways to save one:

  • While setting a reminder. Pick a place, tap Save this place, and give it a name.
  • In settings. Settings Calendar & reminders Saved places suggests Home and Work, lets you add more, and is where you rename them, change an address, or remove one.

The name is what the notification says, so a reminder for your saved Home reads "Arrived at Home" rather than a street address.

Saved places also work in Chat. Say "Remind me to pay bills when I get home" and it uses the address you saved as Home.

Going further

Leaving is underrated. "Take the laundry" when you leave the house is more reliable than any morning alarm, because it fires at the moment the action is possible.

It needs background location permission. The operating system must be allowed to wake Twos when you cross the boundary. Without that permission there is nothing the app can do.

Distance units follow your settings. Metric or imperial, set in Settings Appearance & accessibility Distance units.

Precise location is separate. Whether Twos gets exact or approximate coordinates is a system-level choice, and approximate is often too coarse for a geofence. See Settings Advanced Precise location.

Settings that change this

Tips

  • Save the handful of places you go every week. Setting a location reminder then takes one tap.
  • Use arrival for shops and errands, and departure for anything you must take with you.
  • Pick a slightly generous radius. Too tight and it fires as you are leaving the car park.

If it's not working

It never fires. Almost always background location permission. Check it in system settings rather than in Twos.

It fires late. Geofences are checked by the operating system on its own schedule to save battery, so a small delay is normal and not adjustable.