{"id":230202,"date":"2026-01-06T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230202\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:23:15","slug":"your-samsung-phone-may-soon-remind-you-to-call-your-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230202\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Samsung phone may soon remind you to call your parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung has released a new beta preview for OneUI 8.5, and one of the latest features has forgetful children like myself sweating buckets.<\/p>\n

Alongside the latest bug fixes and tweaks, it seems Samsung is looking to include a feature that would remind you to contact family members<\/a> if you haven’t spoken to them in a while (via Android Authority<\/a>).<\/p>\n

A boon for the forgetful, but it’s hard not to feel shamed<\/p>\n

This feature was first spotted by NirmalSri on X, who shared a screenshot of his OneUI 8.5’s Now Brief prompting him to “say hello to your family”, along with a contact card, and notes on how long it’s been since he last contacted them through his phone. The prompt also included a “not now” button to dismiss the message.<\/p>\n

Notable leaker Ice Universe also spotlighted this feature<\/a> after it pointed out he’d gone 22 days without speaking to his mother \u2014 which, personally speaking, isn’t even close to my personal best. <\/p>\n

It’s not clear how Samsung’s software is figuring out which people to highlight with this feature, but it’s likely it’s keeping an eye on contacts you speak to a lot, or who are simply called “mom”, “dad”, or other similarly familial names. <\/p>\n

\"Now<\/p>\n

I admit it, I’m an “out of sight, out of mind” kind of guy. As much as it shames me to admit it, yes, if I don’t see people for a while, I tend to forget they exist. I’m a simple fella.<\/p>\n

So really, this should be a boon for me. And in some ways, this sort of inclusion is exactly what I want from AI<\/a>. But it really is hard not to feel shamed when it shows how long it’s been since you spoke to a specific person, whether it’s your mother, grandfather, or sibling. Well, maybe not that last one. <\/p>\n

But with that being said, this is, on the whole, a positive use for AI. Helping people who might be forgetful about contacting loved ones is a good way to use this sort of technology. <\/p>\n

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However, it’s worth remembering that this sort of feature needs strong controls, and it needs them from day one. While this feature can have a good impact, this means we’re now weeks away from the first “Samsung just told me to call my dead dad” X post. Plus, people may not have the best relationships with their living family members, and may not want to be nudged to call them every few weeks. <\/p>\n

Samsung likely does include settings and controls for this, but it might be worth making this an opt-in AI feature before OneUI 8.5 hits its final release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung has released a new beta preview for OneUI 8.5, and one of the latest features has forgetful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-230202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}