Okay Google. Tell me a joke. How old are you? I’m bored. Do you like Star Trek or Star Wars? These and other nice questions will make you Have a fun time with the Google Assistant. And it is not at odds that your voice assistant Be helpful and at the same time have a sense of humor. In any case, their functions increase over time and it is practically impossible to keep track of all of them.
So let’s do one thing. First, explain to you how you can take a look at the Google Assistant news. This way you will know what you can ask today with an Ok Google command that a few days ago you could not get more out of it to you Attendeeavailable on any Android device such as compatible smart phones, TVs, watches or speakers.
And, by the way, let’s collect some of the orders and questions more interesting things you can give to the Google Assistant. A way to amortize it and thus avoid having to do certain tasks or perform searches on Google yourself.
Discover new Ok Google features
The first is the first. Google Assistant offers a wealth of responses and actions to questions and commands. But what good is that if you don’t know what to ask? The ideal would be to have on hand a dictionary or a compilation of those questions to launch them, memorize them or recall them when you need them. As well. Google Assistant has that feature.
To see everything Google can do for you with its Ok Google commands, you’ll need to open the Google app and go to More > Settings > Google Assistant > Explore. Through the search engine and the suggestions you will have at your fingertips all the questions and commands that the Assistant understands. With the search engine, directly write the name of the applications and services that you want to control, such as Netflix, Spotify or YouTube. You can also search for phone features like Calls or Messages or topics of interest to you like Sports or Weather. The Wizard will show you supported actions and questions with those topics.
Inside Google Assistant you’ll also find an Explore shortcut. Specifically, when you open the Wizard, in the Lower right corner you will see a compass icon. If you press it, you will see suggestions for questions and actions to launch the Google Assistant.
Play with the Google Assistant
We all have the right to have fun take a break after a day of hard work. So there’s the Google Assistant packed with games and activities so that time flies by when you don’t know what to do with it. Shall we play something? Ask Google and see what it tells you. To begin with, it has several games to test your knowledge and other more classic ones to test your reflexes. It will be for options.
- Ok Google, shall we play something?
- Ok Google, play a game
- Ok Google, let’s play Crystal Ball
- Ok Google, let’s play questions and answers
- Ok Google, let’s play Feel Lucky
- Ok Google, give me a random number
- Hey Google, flip a coin
- Ok Google, play Hangman
- Ok Google, heads or tails
- Ok Google, let’s play rock, paper, scissors
Hang out with questions and curiosities
Through trial and error, it is easy to come up with some of the most curious questions that can be done to the Google Assistant. For example, we may ask you to tell us a joke. Or several. Even if he compliments us or sings something to us. You can choose songs in English, a rap, reggaeton and even congratulate you on your birthday with a song. The Google Assistant also knows how to tell stories. Short, but stories after all. Ask him to tell you a Christmas story, a scary story or just a story.
- Hey Google, tell me a joke
- Ok Google, give me a compliment
- Hey Google, sing me a serenade
- Hey Google, tell me a fun fact
- Hey Google, surprise me
- Hey Google, tell me more
- Hey Google, riddle
- Hey Google, tell me a story
- Hey Google, tell me a scary story
- Hey Google, sing me happy birthday
- Hey Google, sing me the mornings
- Hey Google, sing me a song
Control your mobile with Ok Google
Although there are shortcuts for the following actions, you can entrust them to Google Assistant. A simple command and the Wizard will deactivate or reactivate wireless connections, change brightness or volume, start a call or send a message.
- Hey Google, turn WiFi on (or off)
- Turn Bluetooth on (or off)
- Turn airplane mode on (or off)
- Turn on (or off) the flashlight
- Ok Google, put the phone on silent
- mute phone
- Turn up (or down) the volume
- Turn up (or down) the brightness
- turn off the screen
- Hey Google, take a picture
- Hey Google, take a video
- Open (and the name of the application)
- Call (contact name)
- Make a video call with (contact name)
- Send a message to (contact) and tell them (message)
- Ok Google, send a WhatsApp to (contact) and say (message)
Remember everything with the Google Assistant
Precisely because the Google Assistant is called Assistant, one of its main assets is to remind you what do you have to do during the day. In other words, you can set alarms, reminders, make shopping or task lists, countdowns, notices, etc. And with the voice you want. Come on, anything that has to do with the passage of time and not forgetting appointments, meetings, important events, etc.
- Ok Google, set an alarm for 10
- Let me know in 20 minutes
- Let me know every day at 9 in the morning
- 5 minute countdown
- Ok Google, remember me (whatever) (whatever day and time)
- Create a shopping list for (store)
- Add milk to the shopping list
- What’s on the shopping list?
And if it’s about starting the day on the right foot, that’s what routines are for. Google Assistant routines are a group of tasks or actions for Google Assistant to execute one after another. The best example is found in the routine of Hello. If you wish the Assistant “Good morning”, it will give you information about the weather, it will read you the appointments that you have in your calendar, reminders, upcoming birthdays, if your phone battery is low and, finally, it will read you the news. So that all this information is to your liking, you can customize it by clicking on your Google profile, within the Google Assistant, and then clicking on routines.
In section routines you can create new routines, customize existing ones and take advantage of them to make your day as complete as possible.
- Hey Google, good morning
- Goodnight
- on the way to work
- On the way home