Ok google: x tricks and commands for google assistant in android

Little by little, and without us almost realizing it, the Google Assistant has become an essential tool for many of us. Talking to the mobile phone and having it carry out tasks that, in other times, would have needed our obligatory help, is something that has made our lives much more comfortable. Open applications, write down items on the shopping list, turn on the house lights, set alarms and reminders… We do not have to go, necessarily, to complex commands and difficult tasks. The simple fact of setting an alarm can be done with the only use of our voice… even send a WhatsApp message to a specific contact.

As there are so many commands that we can tell the Assistant, we have decided to create a ranking list so that you have the most recurring and useful ones at hand. This special is going to come in handy until you have assimilated them and get used to using the Google Assistant for everything. We warn you that once you start there is no going back.

How to have the Google Assistant activated on our mobile

Before we start saying 'Ok Google' we have to see if we can have the Assistant on our phone and, later, configure it and activate it to use it with our voice. The requirements to have the Google Assistant are as follows.

1. Minimum 1.5 GB of RAM
2. Android 6 Marshmallow or higher
3. Latest version of Google Play Services
4. Latest version of the Google app
5. Screen with 720p minimum resolution

Does your mobile meet these requirements? So let's configure it properly. For this we are going to go to the Google application that we all have pre-installed on our Android mobile. Within the 'More' configuration menu of the app we go to 'Settings' and then 'Voice'. On the next screen we go to ' Google Match ' and, within this screen, we activate 'Access with Voice Match', having to say 'Ok, Google' up to four times for the mobile to properly register your voice.

Now you can say ' Ok Google ' on any screen. When you say so, a pop-up window will open at the bottom of the screen for you to register the command you order below.

These are the most used commands in the Google Assistant

We remind you that for all these commands to work you must first say 'Ok, Google' to activate the Assistant with your voice.

Calendar commands and reminders

1. 'What do I have to do this afternoon'
2. 'Let me know to throw out the garbage this afternoon at 8'
3. 'Remind me to cancel the gym fee tomorrow'
4. 'Remember me tomorrow at 3 in the afternoon, "appointment with the podiatrist at 7 in the afternoon"'
5. 'Put on the calendar that on Wednesday April 17 I have an appointment with the doctor'
6. 'Take this note: buy bread tomorrow'
7. 'Create an event on April 18: my cousin's birthday'
8. 'I want to establish a routine'

Alarms

1. 'Set an alarm at 8 in the morning'
2. 'Turn off the next alarm'
3. 'Set an alarm at 9:30 a.m. on weekends'
4. 'Clear all my alarms'

Timers and clock

1. 'Set the timer for a quarter of an hour'
2. 'Countdown to ten minutes'
3. 'What time is it?'
4. 'What time is it in New York?'

Atmospheric weather

1. 'How is the weather?'
2. 'What will the weather be this weekend?'
3. 'What will the weather be like on Wednesday?'
4. 'What will the weather be tomorrow in Jerez de la Frontera?'

Calls and messages

1. 'Call mom'
2. 'Send a WhatsApp to Alfredo, "I'll be late tomorrow, we'd better meet at 4"
3. 'Send an eMail to Víctor, subject' invoice ', message' I am sending you the invoice for March ”
4. 'Send an SMS to Roberto, what time are we meeting tomorrow?'

Navigation

1. 'How to get from here to my house'
2. 'Poland Bank ATMs close to home'
3. 'Can you tell me if there are gas stations nearby'
4. 'How long does it take to get to Calle Campana in Seville by bicycle'
5. 'Where is the nearest supermarket'
6. 'What time does the Mercadona de Carretera de Carmona open'

Create shopping list

1. 'Add eggs to the shopping list'
2. 'Show me the shopping list'
3. 'Add white fish and tuna steaks and chicken and coffee to the shopping list'

Controlling the mobile phone and the house

1. 'Put the phone on silent'
2. 'Set the phone volume to 80%'
3. 'Turn off notifications'
4. 'Put the brightness to maximum'
5. 'Turn on the flashlight'
6. 'Turn off the light in the living room
7. 'Turn the living room light red'
8. 'Brighten the living room light'
9. 'Set the brightness of the living room light bulb to 30%'
10. 'I want to see the video of the Samsung Galaxy S10 + on your YouTube channel'
11. 'I want to see a video of your expert on YouTube'
12. 'I want to hear a Rihanna song on Spotify'
13. 'Activate airplane mode'
14. 'Turn on Bluetooth'
15. 'Take me a selfie'
16. 'Take a photo'
17. 'Turn off Wi-Fi'
18. 'Open the Asphalt 9 game'

Day-to-day information

1. 'Open the page of El País'
2. 'Open your expert page'
3. 'Tell me the news of the day'
4. 'Good Morning'
5. 'Goodnight'
6. 'How tall is David Broncano'
7. 'How old is Pablo Iglesias'
8. 'What position in La Liga is Sevilla in'
9. 'What an ass sounds like'
10. 'How many dollars are 500 euros'
11. 'How many meters is 1,000 inches'
12. 'I want you to give me information about Kristen Wiig'
13. 'Give me my summary of the day'
14. 'I want to see pictures of kittens'
15. 'How to say' thank you 'in Japanese'
16. 'How to order the account in French'
17. 'Show me the Avenida cinema billboard'
18. 'How is the moon today'
19. 'How many calories does a zucchini have'

Assistant compatible apps

1. 'I want to read El País'
2. 'I want to hear Los40'

Wizard Curiosities

1. 'How old are you?'
2. 'Sing me a song'
3. 'Sing me a rap'
4. 'Tell me a scary story'
5. 'What scares you'
6. 'Do you have a girlfriend?'
7. 'Will you be my girlfriend'
8. 'You are beautiful'
9. 'How tall are you'
10. 'What is love?'
11. 'Where were you born'
12. 'You know Siri or Alexa'
13. 'Recite me a poem'
14. 'You are fat'
15. 'How are your parents'
16. 'Tell me the movies they play near me'
17. 'Recommend me a horror movie'
18. 'What are your plans for the weekend
19. 'Surprise me'
20. 'Tell me some interesting information'
21. 'Tell me something curious'
22. 'Tell me a secret'
23. 'You're a robot'
24. 'Call me Spiderman'
25. 'What is your favorite music genre'

Games with the Wizard

1. 'I want to play something'
2. 'I'm getting bored'
3. 'I want to play Game of Thrones'
4. 'Rock, paper or scissors'
5. 'flip a coin'
6. 'Tell me a number from one to 100'
7. 'Roll a dice'

Tricks you can do with the Google Assistant

We are going to enter the Google application of our mobile again. Then, in the 'More' tab we enter 'Settings' and, here, in 'Google Assistant'. Here we will find everything we need to improve our Assistant and leave it to our personal taste. We show you what we can do in this section.

Personal information

What should your Personal Assistant call you? (Remember that you can also configure this with your voice), what is the address of your home and your work? And your favorite means of transport? In this section we can also see the history of our flight reservations, our online purchases and which are the payment methods included.

Assistant

In this section we find settings as interesting as the continuous conversation. If we activate this switch, the device's microphone will turn on again after each answer given by the assistant, in case you want to ask something else. It is interesting to leave this option activated to create the illusion of a fluid conversation without having to say 'Ok, Google'.

Here we will be able to configure the very comfortable Google routines. Google Routines consist of words that are associated with a chain of commands and that are activated when we say them out loud. For example, by saying 'Good morning' we can have the Assistant tell us the weather information, the news and turn on the air conditioning.

Also in this section we can add smart devices from other brands, such as Xiaomi, to domotize the house, such as smart bulbs.

Services

In this section we are going to configure the default applications that the Wizard will use for its tasks. For example, we will assign our music playback service, our calendar, shopping list, etc. Just click on each of the sections and choose the default application for each of them.

home

Here we are going to configure our smart speaker, see the smart devices that we have connected to our WiFi network.

How to configure the cards in the Discover section

Thanks to the Discovr section we can have, in the same panel, all the news, articles and specials that interest us, based on the searches we generally do with our Google Chrome browser. But, sometimes, some of the results offered do not interest us too much. Imagine that we have been for work in a city. The mobile detects the change of location and, from then on, begins to send us news from that city, even if we are not interested. How can we adjust or even block the sources of certain news?

The first screen we see when entering the Google application is precisely that of 'Discover'. First of all we will always see the weather information and then, in the form of cards, the news of interest.

In these cards we have two sections to configure them, a small switch located in the lower right corner and a three-point menu in the upper right corner. In the switch, when pressed, we will be saying if we want to see more or less news related to the subject (which we can see at the top of the card). If, on the other hand, what we want is that no more news appear in our panel related to the topic, the word or even the source from which the news comes, we have to click on the three-point button located in the part Upper right.

If you look at the menu that appears when you click on the three dots, we have an interesting section called 'Personalize Discover'. If we press, we will access a screen where we can add topics of interest such as ' Sports', 'Cinema', 'Television,' Musicians' or 'Technology'. In 'All settings' we can include series that we are following, public figures in which we have an interest, musicians, athletes, etc.