Voice reminders
“Call the dentist tomorrow at nine, and pick up the parcel before six.” Two tasks, two times, one sentence — and the alert arrives at nine. The day and the hour are read by code, not guessed by a model.
The recording, the words and the times read out of them stay on the iPhone. There is no account, no server and no upload; Offhand works in airplane mode. It needs an iPhone 15 Pro or newer.
The model reads what you want done. When it happens is worked out afterwards by ordinary code, against your phone’s own clock — which is why it can be measured case by case, and why the same sentence gives the same answer every time.
Given a correctly written task, that code read a named weekday right 232 times in 232, today, tomorrow and tonight 336 times in 336, and the clock times in those same sentences 316 times in 316 — code only, no model, each case against its own clock. On the four languages the app speaks it reads the right day and time 97% of the time in English, 91% in Simplified Mandarin, 98% in Spanish and 97% in Brazilian Portuguese — 67, 21, 56 and 66 tasks respectively, so those are counts before they are percentages. Every figure was computed on a Mac rather than on an iPhone, in late August and early September 2026; the corpora and the conditions are on the blog.
The Action Button opens the microphone on the iPhones that have one, so a reminder is a press and a sentence, without finding an app first. Setting it up takes four steps.
A capture keeps going with the app closed or the phone locked. While it runs, the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island show the mark and a clock counting from the start, with a Stop and a Cancel that work without unlocking. The Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and the Control Centre control, are part of Offhand Pro; speaking, the Action Button, the list, notes and search stay free.