Whomst amongst us nonetheless depends on a conventional alarm clock to wake up? It’s yet another process smartphones have come to dominate of their temporary tenure. However each choices have their professionals and cons: A (charged) smartphone won’t ever fail in your as a result of your energy went out in a single day. (The McCallister household would’ve loved a pleasant Christmas in Paris had they a Pixel.) However your smartphone’s smarts can additionally get in the way in which, and even cease your alarm earlier than you’ve gotten an opportunity to get up.
Not too long ago, Redditor asevarte might not perceive why their Pixel wasn’t waking them up. Some days the alarm would go off as anticipated, however, others, it wouldn’t, they usually’d get up to a backup alarm set half-hour later. It didn’t make sense. The telephone was set to play a Spotify playlist at a selected time. Barring a obvious Android bug, there was no purpose it shouldn’t have actually sounded the alarm.
After which, asevarte figured it out. One morning, they occurred to wake earlier than the alarm went off. On the appointed time, the Pixel began taking part in a random music from the Spotify playlist—The Pixies’ The place Is My Thoughts? Nearly instantly, it shut off. However why?
The music, for many who don’t know, begins with a excessive be aware, adopted by a loud “STOP.” And that’s when the alarm turned off.
Oh my god.
Google Assistant, in its quest to be as handy as potential, will cancel a latest request in case you merely ask it to “cease.” You don’t want an “OK Google” or a “Hey Google”—solely a “cease.” After all, the intention is for the person to say “cease,” however Android may not be capable to differentiate between your voice and a clear, loud “cease” at first of a music.
Whereas The place Is My Thoughts? works a little bit too nicely right here, I think about any music that begins equally may have the identical impact. Ice Ice Child might doubtlessly do the identical, as might Can’t Contact This, though hopefully the beat would wake you earlier than “Cease! Hammer Time” rolled round.
In any case, it’s a foolish quirk of Android and Google Pixel, and whereas the chance is low it is going to have an effect on you, it’s a great PSA to vet the songs in your wakeup playlist.
