From setting alarms to help you get up in the morning to knowing the weather before you head out, Amazon's Alexa has become a staple in many people's daily lives. As of 2017, more than 87 million smart devices have been installed in homes, offices, and other spaces, with nearly half of those devices using Alexa. Unfortunately, that means that starting November 8, about 46.5 million devices will lose an important service. Read on to learn what you'll no longer be able to do using an Amazon Alexa device.
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Amazon's Alexa will reportedly no longer have access to your email .
If you use Alexa to check your email, you might be disappointed in just a few days. Amazon has informed customers that it will be phasing out Alexa's access to email, according to an email from the Amazon Alexa team that was shared by users on both Reddit and Twitter. The change will take effect on November 8, according to the email.
This change will also affect some email-related features.
However, you won’t just lose the ability to hear Alexa read your emails to you. According to the email, the change will also affect other email-related features, such as email routines and email notifications. But if you have a calendar account connected to Alexa, it will still work.
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Users have had the ability to have Alexa read their emails since 2018.
Alexa gained the ability to read email messages in December 2018, according to CNBC. At the time, Amazon supported email accounts from Google's Gmail, Microsoft's Outlook.com, Hotmail , and Live.com, giving users the option to ask Alexa to read their most recent emails, delete an email, or reply to an email. Apparently, some Alexa users are more than a little disappointed with the sudden removal of this service.
However, such devices will not have access to email.
Alexa won't be the only smart home device that won't have access to email. Google's smart voice assistant, Google Home, hasn't been able to read emails and text messages for some time, according to Smart Home Point. According to the smart home news outlet, this is likely due to privacy concerns, despite the fact that other third-party devices, like Alexa, have offered this service for years.
Information source: bestlifeonline.com
