Table of contents:
- Tell the Google Assistant to call you another way
- Find out how to delete or modify the queries you make to the assistant
- Take advantage of routines
- Change the default units, without touching anything
- Activates continuous conversation
Surely you have been using the Google assistant for some time or, on the contrary, you still think that it is not useful. It is possible that, on either side, you need some advice to configure the Google assistant and improve the use you are making of it. Here are 5 tips that will allow you to establish a more correct initial configuration of the assistant. And remember, when you do the Voice Match avoid noise, this way the assistant will always work much better.
Tell the Google Assistant to call you another way
One of the things that many people don't know is that the Google assistant can call us whatever we want. That is, we can ask him to call us Batman, Robin or even McGiver. It doesn't matter what name we choose. All you need to do this from the wizard is a very simple command:
- Ok Google, Call me (your chosen name).
- Google will ask if you want it to use that default name to interact with you. Say yes and from now on you will no longer have your real name for the Google assistant.
It will be very fun. You can ask him to call you Master, it looks great when your friends see you interact with him.
Find out how to delete or modify the queries you make to the assistant
One of the things that many people don't know is that Google Assistant allows us to see all the queries that we are doing. These are stored in history (unless we delete it). But, once inside the Google assistant, we can keep our finger pressed on any query to modify or delete it.
When we hold down, a pop-up menu will appear with two options (Edit or Delete). You can modify the query you have made to Google Assistant or delete it with this small action.
Take advantage of routines
But without a doubt, the best thing about the Google assistant are the routines that it allows us to configure. It has some as standard, although they are generally few. The good thing about Google Assistant is that the routines are not exclusive, since we can configure others with amazing ease.
- Enter the Google application and look for the section Routines.
- More – Settings – Google Assistant – Assistant – Routines.
In this section you will see all the routines that the Google assistant has assigned to you. You will find that most of them are very basic, since there are only those that come predetermined. By clicking on the floating icon + you can create your own:
- Add the commands you want to perform.
- Tell him to do them when x thing happens.
The possibilities are enormous, only your imagination will set the limits to configure the routines Among the actions you will find all those that the Google Assistant can get to do. When I say Hello, tell me the weather that she has done and show me the news (for example). This may be a tricky feature to use at first, but over time you'll take a lot out of it.
Change the default units, without touching anything
Another thing you can do in Google Assistant is change the units in which it shows you things. You can change degrees to Celsius, units to miles, etc. All you have to do is ask it with some very simple commands:
- Changes the default unit to Celsius.
- Change the default unit to kilometer.
Confirm that this is what you are looking for and that's it. Although this, you can also change it manually in the Assistant Settings. However, it is much more convenient to do it this way.
Activates continuous conversation
And one setting you should change is the continuous conversation, to improve the use of the Google assistant. In this way you will avoid saying Ok Google all the time, since the assistant will be listening to your answers more carefully than before. This is activated in:
- Enter the Google application.
- Click More and go to Settings.
- Select the Google Assistant option.
- Click on the Assistant tab.
- Check the option Continuous conversation and enable the switch.
This way, the Google Assistant will wake up after each response and listen, making it easier for us to interact with it.
What did you think of these tips? Are you also going to take better advantage of the assistant from now on?
