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Google Assistant is a powerful voice assistant platform that I personally use every day on my phone and my Google Home. Among other things, I use Assistant to turn on my music, change the.
Description
Meet your Google Assistant. Ask it questions. Tell it to do things. It’s your own personal Google, always ready to help.
Find answers and get things done while on-the-go with the help of your Google Assistant. Remind yourself to stop by the store, pull up your travel photos to show a friend, or make a dinner reservation.
With the Assistant app, you can:
- Make quick phone calls (e.g. 'Call Mom.')
- Send text messages (e.g. 'Text my bestie.')
- Email your boss (e.g. 'Here is the latest TPS report.')
- Set reminders (e.g. 'Remind me to buy a birthday gift for Sarah.')
- Set calendar events (e.g. 'Set a calendar event for dinner with Charlie tomorrow from 7-9.')
- Play music (e.g. 'Play jazz music on YouTube.')
- Navigate places (e.g. 'Get me directions home.')
- Weather information (e.g. 'Do I need an umbrella today?')
*Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Find answers and get things done while on-the-go with the help of your Google Assistant. Remind yourself to stop by the store, pull up your travel photos to show a friend, or make a dinner reservation.
With the Assistant app, you can:
- Make quick phone calls (e.g. 'Call Mom.')
- Send text messages (e.g. 'Text my bestie.')
- Email your boss (e.g. 'Here is the latest TPS report.')
- Set reminders (e.g. 'Remind me to buy a birthday gift for Sarah.')
- Set calendar events (e.g. 'Set a calendar event for dinner with Charlie tomorrow from 7-9.')
- Play music (e.g. 'Play jazz music on YouTube.')
- Navigate places (e.g. 'Get me directions home.')
- Weather information (e.g. 'Do I need an umbrella today?')
*Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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What’s New
We've updated the app to bring you the best Assistant experience. This release contains bug fixes and stability improvements.
2.5K Ratings
Has Potential but Falls Short for iPhone 6 Plus
Does not have the ability to wake from sleep when plugged into my car which means that I have to wake Siri to open the Google Assistant App while driving my car.
Does not have the ability to silence my phone or take it off of silence because it is an iPhone.
The only time it is useful is in the morning when I click on the microphone and say, “Good morning Google.” At that time it follows the routine. I have gone over every setting and it does not provide the hands free usage which makes it useless. When I ask for it to tell me the weather or traffic, it pulls up the websites. It is no better than Siri in any way and is actually deficient because I can use Siri hands free while driving. I can wake Siri with, “Hey Siri,” while it is plugged in and can tell it to send text messages, read text messages, open apps like music, notepad, etc. Because I use Google for most things, I was looking forward to the Google Assistant but rarely use it and am likely to delete it.
Does not have the ability to silence my phone or take it off of silence because it is an iPhone.
The only time it is useful is in the morning when I click on the microphone and say, “Good morning Google.” At that time it follows the routine. I have gone over every setting and it does not provide the hands free usage which makes it useless. When I ask for it to tell me the weather or traffic, it pulls up the websites. It is no better than Siri in any way and is actually deficient because I can use Siri hands free while driving. I can wake Siri with, “Hey Siri,” while it is plugged in and can tell it to send text messages, read text messages, open apps like music, notepad, etc. Because I use Google for most things, I was looking forward to the Google Assistant but rarely use it and am likely to delete it.
Could be improved
This app is almost perfect, I really enjoy Google Assistant so much more than Siri or Alexa, the interface is clean and easy to use, and I actually enjoy using the app and find it fun. However when I ask Google what’s on my calendar, it does not list everything that’s on my Google Calendar, just the things that I have entered through Google Assistant. (For example, if I create an event through the Calendar app, the Assistant does not read or recognize it). I also wish that there was a way for Google Assistant to list all events and reminders when asking about my day. I have to ask separately “what are my events this week” and then “what are my reminders this week”. If there was a way to see everything at once that would be great.
All in all, this app is the best personal assistant I’ve used so far and I highly recommend it.
All in all, this app is the best personal assistant I’ve used so far and I highly recommend it.
Better than Siri
I find the Google Assistant to be way better that Apple’s native solution that is Siri. I think it has more to do with how the information is packaged. Most of the time, the Assistant gives me something from the web, á la Siri, but instead of giving me the oft-repeated and annoying line “Here’s what I found on the web for...”, the Assistant gives me the result in a similar manner to the Top Stories feature on Google Search. I also use the 3rd-party integration much more than I ever have with Siri.
My biggest problem with the Assistant is not exclusive to Google’s AI, (I have this complaint about Siri and Amazon’s Alexa as well) but nevertheless, there’s a discoverablity problem. As the Assistant is in an uncanny valley of intelligence, I’m not entirely sure of everything I can do at any given time. I think Google is at a good place of addressing this problem.
My biggest problem with the Assistant is not exclusive to Google’s AI, (I have this complaint about Siri and Amazon’s Alexa as well) but nevertheless, there’s a discoverablity problem. As the Assistant is in an uncanny valley of intelligence, I’m not entirely sure of everything I can do at any given time. I think Google is at a good place of addressing this problem.
Information
Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
English, Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
Supports
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
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