Alexa can now remind you about appointments from yet another calendar service: iCloud. Devices including the Echo lineup and other Alexa-enabled gadgets have added support for iCloud calendars as of today. Amazon says that iCloud calendars have been a “top requested feature” from customers, which makes sense. A whole lot of iPhone and iPad users probably create one when setting up their device out of the box.
Amazon’s Alexa adds support for iCloud calendars
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You can link your iCloud account through the settings section of Amazon’s mobile Alexa app. Once that’s done, you can ask what’s on your schedule for the day — or tell Alexa to add a new calendar entry.
With the addition of iCloud, Amazon now counts five “major” calendar services that Alexa works with. They are:
- Apple iCloud Calendar accounts
- G Suite accounts
- Google / Gmail accounts
- Office 365 commercial customers with Exchange Online mailboxes
- Outlook.com email accounts, including all Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live, or MSN email accounts
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