Idea: Reminders + Find my Friends

[moonman239]

There's something you need to do when someone arrives at or leaves some place. Unfortunately, you don't know when that will happen. Currently, Reminders will only alert you at a specific time or when you arrive at or leave a predefined location.

My idea is this: if Find my Friends can notify you when a friend arrives at or leaves a predefined location, then Find my Friends should be able to notify the Reminders app when that event occurs, too.

Scenario: Bob wants to be reminded to give Jill some money when they meet. Since Jill has given Bob access to her location via Find my Friends, Bob can set up a reminder in his Reminders app so that his phone reminds him when she arrives.

 

[mrapplegate]

There's something you need to do when someone arrives at or leaves some place. Unfortunately, you don't know when that will happen. Currently, Reminders will only alert you at a specific time or when you arrive at or leave a predefined location.

My idea is this: if Find my Friends can notify you when a friend arrives at or leaves a predefined location, then Find my Friends should be able to notify the Reminders app when that event occurs, too.

Scenario: Bob wants to be reminded to give Jill some money when they meet. Since Jill has given Bob access to her location via Find my Friends, Bob can set up a reminder in his Reminders app so that his phone reminds him when she arrives.

You can use geofences with reminders in iOS 7

 

[naasrd]

There's something you need to do when someone arrives at or leaves some place. Unfortunately, you don't know when that will happen. Currently, Reminders will only alert you at a specific time or when you arrive at or leave a predefined location.

My idea is this: if Find my Friends can notify you when a friend arrives at or leaves a predefined location, then Find my Friends should be able to notify the Reminders app when that event occurs, too.

Scenario: Bob wants to be reminded to give Jill some money when they meet. Since Jill has given Bob access to her location via Find my Friends, Bob can set up a reminder in his Reminders app so that his phone reminds him when she arrives.

Great idea, shouldn't be too hard to include.

 

[moonman239]

You can use geofences with reminders in iOS 7

Reminders will only give me a reminder if I cross a predefined geofence, not if a friend crosses it.

 

[mrapplegate]

Reminders will only give me a reminder if I cross a predefined geofence, not if a friend crosses it.

You're right. I think I misread the thread

 

[Frederico Luna]

How about:

Bill owes Joe some money. Remind bill to leave the building when Joe is arriving.

Or...

Jennifer took her boyfriend home. Remind the boyfriend to jump out of the window before her parents arrive.

 

[JonHimself]

Doesn't Find My Friends currently have this ability? I'm almost positive I've set it to notify when my friends leaves his work and then arrives at the bar I'm at. I'm not sure what the other limitations are.

 

[Gutwrench]

You can use geofences with reminders in iOS 7

I'm not on ios7 but coincidentally tried using something similar yesterday by asking Siri to show me my grocery list when I arrived at Target. She replied she 'found several grocery stores pretty close to you.'