Android 9: Google Assistant Reminders always use Default Notification Sound

[Android Central Question]

I want my Reminders that I set in Google Assistant to have use their own sound. I set this by going into the Google app notification, and I've got "Show notifications" toggled on, and scroll down to Reminders which I have toggled on and its notification style is Sound and the sound is Pizzicato.

However, any such reminders that pop up always chime with the System Settings -> Notification sounds, which is Piano. Everything I've read indicates that Reminders should play their own sound. Any ideas?

Android 9

 

[Rukbat]

Don't mind me - I scrolled through this whole thread with the idea that maybe Reminders weren't notifications - then you found it.

 

[beardybrewer]

So, maybe Hand-off is what I should have been using for my Reminder sound, but this seems like a bug to me.
- Craig

I now even turned the Reminders notification off completely, and I still got one based on Hand-off's notification settings.

Thankfully I found your post! This has been driving me nuts for some time. I actually missed an important reminder today and was late because it no longer plays a longer sound which used to work I guess in Oreo. I set a different sound for loads of options there but I didn't think to try hand-off based on the description.

I am also on Samsung S8 running the latest. Hopefully they fix it but at least, for now, I can finally start using reminders properly again.